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Pete Gomez ED 280 Week four lesson Dr. M. Massey

** Software for Health & Physical Education **
 * Health and Wellness Software for Children**

Family Health, Vol. 1 - The Body
The Body, is the first volume in the Family Health Series. This interactive health software provides guided tours of important health information on human anatomy and how the human body functions. This educational journey has extensive content that matches or exceeds national health curriculum for grades 2 to 10.

Family Health, Vol. 2 - Illnesses & Injuries
Illnesses & Injuries, is the second volume in the Family Health Series. This interactive health software provides guided tours of important information on kids health awareness. This educational journey about common childhood diseases, injuries and how to prevent them has extensive health information that matches or exceeds national health curriculum for grades K to 8. Staying Healthy, the third volume in the Family Health Series provides guided tours of important health information on keeping yourself healthy. This educational journey about healthy living has extensive content that matches or exceeds national health curriculum expectations for grades K to 8. Authored by Pediatric and Adolescent Health Expert, Dr. Russell Viner, Staying Healthy is an excellent resource to promote kids health awareness and learn healthy lifestyles. This health software contains quizzes and games to test the user's knowledge and skills.
 * Family Health, Vol. 3 - Staying Healthy**

Family Health, Vol. 4 - Becoming an Adult
Becoming an Adult, is the fourth volume in the Family Health Series. This interactive health software provides health information about growing up, becoming an adult and generally about teenage health. This educational journey has extensive content that matches or exceeds national health curriculum for grades 5 to 10.

Family Health, Vol 5 - Emotional Health
Teen health and emotional health education are important for managing conflict and stress, and developing a positive personal identity. Emotional Health, is the fifth volume in the Family Health Series. This interactive health software provides guided tours of important information about staying healthy emotionally. This educational journey has extensive content that matches or exceeds national health curriculum expectations for grades 5 to 10. ** Price: ** $125.00 [] SPARK is a research-based, public health organization dedicated to creating, implementing, and evaluating programs that promote lifelong wellness. SPARK strives to improve the health of children, adolescents, and adults by disseminating evidence-based [|Physical Education], [|After School] , [|Early Childhood] , and [|Coordinated School Health] programs to teachers and recreation leaders serving Pre-K through 12th grade students. Each SPARK program fosters environmental and behavioral change by providing a coordinated package of highly active curriculum, on-site teacher training, extensive follow-up support, and content-matched equipment. [] Curriculum is $129.00 per grade Pre-Kindergarten to 5th grade & Middle School at site listed above. This software would provide everything a school would need to ensure they are meeting the requirements of the Department of Education for Physical Fitness Education. The curriculum would provide lesson plans and other support materials for the instructors. It would need to be broken up into the schools timeline which may or may not be easy.
 * System Requirements: ** Windows 7, Vista, XP | Mac OS X 128 MB RAM; 70 MB Hard Disk Space
 * I can see using this software in the classroom to increase awareness and pique the interest of the students. The strength would be the new approach to teaching these topics and possibly linking them to science classes. A weakness might be losing some students attention. It would be up to me and other instructors to ensure that we maintain the student attention and keep them interested. **
 * SPARK: Countering Childhood Obesity Since 1989 **

//** Let’s Move! **// A comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams.

This is a free site and provides information that can be used to start the program anywhere.

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