• Energy Balance 101

    Giving Kids the Support they Need for an Active, Healthy Lifestyle.

    http://www.energybalance101.com/families/index.cfm
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  • Integrating Physical Activity into the School Day

     Integrating physical activity into classroom learning provides another opportunity to infuse meaningful activity during the school day. Physical activity in the classroom helps activate the brain, improve on-task behavior during academic instruction time, and increases daily in-school physical activity levels among children. Classroom teachers have the potential to influence children's healthy behaviors and lifetime choices by including bouts of physical activity into the total learning experience, and in turn, maximize student learning during academic activities that are mostly sedentary.

    http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/publications/teachingTools/upload/PA-During-School-Day.pdf
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  • SPARK

    The Revolutionary New Science Of Exercise And The Brain
    SPARK is a groundbreaking exploration of the connection between exercise and the brain’s performance that shows how even moderate exercise will supercharge mental circuits to beat stress, sharpen thinking, enhance memory, and much more. SPARK will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think.
    Dr. John Ratey
    http://johnratey.com/newsite/index.html
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  • Alliance For A Healthier Generation

    Schools are powerful places to shape the health, education and well-being of our children. Healthy students are better able to concentrate on their work, attend school on a regular basis and perform better in class.

    http://www.healthiergeneration.org/
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  • Action Based Learning

    Kinesthetic teaching strategies that teach specific academic concepts in a teacher friendly, time efficient, fun way that has proven results for a positive learning experience.
    Jean Blaydes Madigan
    http://abllab.com/
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  • Let's Move In Schools

    The goal of Let's Move in School is to ensure that every school provides a comprehensive school physical activity program with quality physical education as the foundation so that youth will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be physically active for a lifetime.

    http://www.letsmove.gov/
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  • Brain Rules

    If workplaces had nap rooms, multitasking was frowned upon, and meetings were held during walks, we'd be vastly more productive. Brain Rules reveals – in plain English – 12 ways our brains truly work.
    John Medina
    http://brainrules.net/
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  • Learning Readiness PE

    Naperville's fitness program does not stop in the gym. The district's Learning Readiness program incorporates health and fitness in the classroom. The program is based on a Harvard Medical School psychiatry study showing that exercise stimulates the brain in ways that improves mood, attention span and readiness to learn.

    http://www.learningreadinesspe.com/
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  • Active Academics

      This website provides practical ideas for integrating physical activity throughout the school day. Lesson ideas are short "10 minute or less" activities that get students moving while practicing content standards in a variety of subject areas. Active Academics® currently provides activities for K-5 classrooms in math, reading/language arts, health/nutrition, and physical education. Teachers can also choose "classroom energizers" that will provide simple ideas just for giving students a "moving break" from classroom activities.

    http://www.activeacademics.org/
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  • Health Resource Guide from USC

    This website includes links to several resources for learning about Fitness, Nutrition and The Human Body.

    http://mphdegree.usc.edu/health-resource-guide/
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