Health Powered Kids™ includes:
- School and community-based lessons and activities on nutrition, physical fitness, hygiene and mind-body balance
- Activities for families to do at home and in their community
- Mind-body activities for stress-reduction and relaxation
- Health and wellness information available through the internet and printed materials.
Lessons
Health Powered Kids™ Lessons & Activities is a series of 60+ lessons on nutrition, physical fitness and mind-body balance for youth, ages 3 to 14 years.
These lessons and additional resources are available to teachers, school staff, home-school educators, daycare providers and everyone who works with young people to help them make healthful choices.
Each lesson includes a topic overview for the instructor or teacher, an explanation for students, at least one activity to help students understand and apply the concept, and a printable take-home newsletter to inform parents about the lesson and offer tips for keeping kids healthy at home.
Lessons can be sorted by length of time, ages of youth and topic areas.
National Health and Physical Education Standards
We linked each one of our lessons to the national health and physical education standards. Our Health Standards grid displays how each of our lessons can fit into your curriculum. The health and physical education standards grid can also be accessed from each lesson page by clicking the purple button on the left sidebar.
Healthy Families Take-Home Newsletters
Empower parents to continue health lessons at home with English and Spanish parent newsletters. Each lesson includes a printable take-home newsletter to inform parents about the lesson and offer tips and family-friendly activities for keeping kids healthy at home. The take-home newsletters are also available in Spanish.
Power Chargers
Power Chargers are a collection of short exercises designed to give kids a quick activity break throughout the day. Choose from two, five or 10+ minute Power Chargers, depending on the time and space available. Use Power Chargers to wake up kids in the morning, energize them after lunch or help them focus before a big assignment.
