Read the Label Youth Outreach materials challenge kids (ages 9 to 13) to look for and use the Nutrition Facts label on food and beverage packages. The materials include fun, easy tips and targeted education to help make label reading a key component through which today’s young people are equipped to achieve a healthy diet. With engaging content, plus hands-on parent information and community outreach, kids and families across the United States can use the label to compare foods today and every day!

Resilience Matters. It’s the key ingredient in navigating the modern world. And it’s not reserved for those special people who have the iron will to persevere despite all odds. All humans beings have the capacity for resilience.
Anyone can increase their resilience if we give them the right tools and teach them the right strategies. Teaching resilience doesn’t have to be complicated, but it does take time to learn.

In this SEL activity, students practice CASEL competency by strengthening their understanding of noticing how their body feels. This lesson can be used to easily infuse social and emotional learning into classroom schedules. This lesson is most appropriate for students in grades K-5. It is estimated this lesson will take about 15 minutes to complete. Students consider why it is useful to express feelings through words.

SENG is your portal to quality information about the affective domain. They offer SENGinars|and lots of free online reading to help you understand exactly what is making that kiddo tick

Safety First: Fire Safety. Hosted by Eagles sports player Brian Dawkins, who goes through the five rules of fire safety: "Stop. Drop. Roll. Cool. Call." Children act out the burn prevention exercise and medical experts explain the difference between first, second, and third degree burns. The importance of burn prevention and treating stoves, electric devices, and hot water with care is emphasized.

In this lesson plan, educators will teach their students the game scatter. Scatter helps develop throwing, catching, kicking, and base running skills.

This PE Game is one of many quick and easy physical education games that teachers can use in their own PE class. It's all about the best games for exercise, skills, activities, games, learning, fitness, and FUN. Simple school games in just minutes. This is a very simple and very fun PE game. It’s a running wave game, students try to avoid the catchers. Use your school team name or mascot to boost school morale! (Thanks to Graham Bodnar)

Create a play activity outside for your child(ren) with a variety of options.  Gather the materials such as bubbles, kites, chalk, jump ropes, hula hoops, a ball to kick or bounce, etc.  Ask them to plan where they would like to play.  Talk about the amount of space they may need to play safely without interrupting others.  

Resource of the importance and examples of how to set SMART goals with students from Edutopia.

SHAPE America – Society of Health and Physical Educators serves as the voice for 200,000+ health and physical education professionals across the United States. The organization’s extensive community includes a diverse membership of health and physical educators, as well as advocates, supporters, and 50+ state affiliate organizations. Their Mission is to advance professional practice and promote research related to health and physical education, physical activity, dance, and sport.

This PE Game is one of many quick and easy physical education games that teachers can use in their own PE class. It's all about the best games for exercise, skills, activities, games, learning, fitness, and FUN. Simple school games in just minutes. This is a classic fun game of Sharks & Minnows but with added dodgeballs (thanks Deric Hafer for the game modification).

Jane Clayson Johnson is a national broadcast journalist, widely known for her work at CBS News, ABC News, and NPR. Over more than two decades, she traveled the world covering international stories, presidential campaigns, and interviewing the biggest newsmakers of the day. A best-selling author, Jane’s book, Silent Souls Weeping, is a candid look inside the core-shaking world of depression. Jane shines a light on the desperate, dark, and lonely reality faced by those who struggle with clinical depression. She has drawn upon scores of real-life experiences in an effort to open a dialogue—a new level of honesty, authenticity, and hope for those who suffer.

Students will move to act out the sections in the story as they are given 2 step directions (Safely place your hands on the ground so your head is upside down and walk backwards, dance a jig like the pig and sing a tune like the loon). 

This video explains how to conduct the sit and reach assessment in PE class.

The Core Guides for Health Education were created by teachers, community partners and Utah State Board of Education staff to support teachers in each grade.

This smart goal log will help students learn how to track their daily goals as well as stay motivated while doing it.