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School Health: Oral Motor Exercises: Practical Tips and Tricks

For Teachers Pre-K - K
There are several oral motor exercises that can be easily performed in a group preschool setting. When other children are involved, the exercises are viewed as fun "games" rather than therapy. The exercises below are designed for...
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Committee for Children: Blog: Mindfulness Activity: Gift of You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this activity from the Committee for Children, students will engage in the understanding that they themselves are gifts.
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Choose My Plate: Health and Nutrition Information for Educators

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find sets of lesson plans for children grades one through six about the healthy food choices. Includes posters, worksheets, and coloring pages.
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Kids Health: Kids and Alcohol

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource offers information about kids and alcohol abuse. It includes an age-appropriate guide to talking with children about alcohol, and strategies for saying no.
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Kids Health: Kids and Exercise

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Information about kids and exercise. Includes an age-appropriate guide to the type and the amount of daily exercise children should be getting.
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Kids Health: For Parents: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This article is helpful in giving facts about fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), including signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and prevention. Also available in Spanish by clicking tab "Lea este articulo en Espanol".
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Kids Health: Children's Activities: Healthy Eating

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
You can create opportunities for learning about healthy food in many ways besides cooking and eating: you can use games, crafts, songs and dance. This site provides coloring sheets, flashcards, curriculum materials, nutritional games,...
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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Ways to Help Kids Develop Healthy Habits

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A study by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation showed parents have significant potential to influence their children's behavior. Help your children learn to make healthier food choices and engage in regular physical...
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Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Information, activities, and games pertaining to the respiratory system, including more specific topics like lung health and wellness, air pollution, and tobacco.
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Kids Health:how to Talk to Your Child About the News

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children may worry about current events and need an adult to help make sense of what is happening. Adults will be able to find useful and engaging information.
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Sesame Street: Healthy Habits for Life

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This comprehensive resource will give you the tools you need to teach children about eating right and being physically active so that they can establish healthy habits for life. Included are easy-to-use, fun lessons and activities that...
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Museum of Health Care: Reading the Trade Cards

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Trading cards were popular in the 1800s and 1900s as a way of advertising health and beauty products. This exhibit shows examples of various types and discusses the advertising techniques used. Younger children will especially enjoy the...
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Revisiting and Updating the Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Principle 8, published in 2008 by Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, provides updates to the 1991 Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: School Readiness

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these resources to turn everyday moments into brain-building adventures. Children's lives are packed with first-time experiences. As a caring, supportive adult who talks with them, asks them questions, offers comfort, and shares...
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Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: Pump, Jump, Thump!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Shows activities children do that keep their hearts healthy. Includes audio narration in 13 additional languages with text in English.
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Revisiting and Updating the Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Principle 6, published in 2008 by Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, provides updates to the 1991 Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs.
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Pbs Learning Media: Resilience Background Information

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help children learn to cope with their feelings as well as build more resilience and maturity, in this guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: Resilience Tips for Adults

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children express their worries in different ways. Learn some ways a child may signal that they are upset in this guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: Resilience Tips for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help children find ways to cope with difficult situations, with this guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: How to Cope

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Using advice and role-play, help guide your children through an exploration of how to handle scary situations, focusing on what happens when you are lost, in this educator guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Victoria State Government: Sociodramatic Play (Interacting With Others)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Sociodramatic play is where children act out imaginary situations and stories, become different characters, and pretend they are in different locations and times. Sociodramatic play is the most advanced form of play, and constantly...
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University of Texas Libraries

University of Texas: Ray and the Sunbeatables

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created and developed Ray and the Sunbeatables: A Sun Safety Curriculum. The evidence-based curriculum educates children, parents and teachers about sun protection and promotes sun safety...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wqed Education Programs: Clifford the Big Red Dog Programming

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This collection of resources has been designed to help teach character development and social-emotional skills to children ages four to seven. Each lesson follows a similar format, in which children can watch (watch video), read (read a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Mister Chris and Friends

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Mister Chris and Friends is a show for young children produced by Vermont PBS. Each gently-paced episode begins with a wish made to a magical Wishing Well. This wish propels Mister Chris and his friends on an adventure to discover more...

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