Homework Sites - Health and Safety

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1. Infection Detection Protection
   Learn about microbes, bacteria, viruses, and protozoa, and how disease can spread from animals to humans. Play quiz games and print a coloring page with health tips.
2. BAM! Body and Mind
   Answers kids' questions on health issues, and recommends ways to make their bodies and minds healthier, stronger, and safer. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
3. Galaxy-H
   Find out about keeping healthy and staying safe by checking out the different zones of the space station.
4. Kidnetic
   Discover ideas for healthy eating, learn about good nutrition, and find fun physical activities you can do alone or with friends. Includes recipes and fun games as well.
5. It's My Life: Body
   Find all kinds of body-related topics discussed at this PBS site, from eating disorders to drug abuse and smoking.
6. LifeBytes
   Covers a variety of health topics, including alcohol, drugs, mental health, and healthy eating, for kids in their early teens. Try out some of their quizzes to see what you've learned!
7. BlueAnn's Wild & Woolly Web Site
   Get tips on how to stay healthy from this cool blue sheep.
8. Scrub Club
   Fight the nasty cold and flu germ villains with games like Stop Fluin' Around. Download music, coloring pages, posters, and more.
9. Kids Health for Kids
   KidsHealth has articles, animations, games, and resources to help you learn more about your body and staying healthy.
10. Colgate Kids World
    Learn how to keep your teeth healthy and play some cool games.
11. Medical Mysteries
    Join the Reconstructors in their futuristic world and play scientist, historian, and detective as you solve a mission and learn about how infectious diseases are spread.
12. Harcourt: Your Health
    Learn about health, fitness, nutrition, anatomy, and much more. You can choose which grade level you want to start with and then select an activity or game from the list.
13. BodyWise
    Learn to love and take care of your body! Get facts about eating right, exercising, and eating disorders.
14. 4 Girls Health
    Learn about what happens to your body as you grow up, find out how to stay healthy, see how substances like drugs and alcohol affect your body, get ways to handle stress and emotions, and lots more on this site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
15. VERBNow.com
    Is your mom telling you to go out and play? Get ideas for getting active with the Game Generator, create your own virtual character, and get sports tips from pros.
16. KidsHealth: Growing Up
    Read a variety of articles about your changing body and mind and the kinds of issues that older kids face.


Drugs and Alcohol


17. CBBC Newsround: You Make Me Sick
    Play this game to learn about the negative effects smoking, drinking, taking drugs, and eating fast food can have on your body.
18. Ask Listen Learn
    Play with the interactive body to learn how drinking alcohol affects different parts of your body. Watch a video on how alcohol changed the life of one teen forever.
19. The Cool Spot
    For kids only. Be smart, don't start.
20. Sara's Quest
    Help Sara on her quest to discover how marijuana and other drugs affect the brain. From the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
21. D.A.R.E.
    Let Daren the Lion lead you through his clubhouse and teach you about this organization aimed at keeping kids off drugs.


Smoking


22. Kids Against Tobacco Smoke
    Get the latest tobacco-related news in the U.K., check out facts about tobacco smoke, and try the interactive games that help you explore the consequences of smoking.
23. Science, Tobacco, & You
    Find out how smoking and tobacco use affect your body and the economy, see how to break the habit, read about tobacco ads, and much more.
24. UnfilteredTV.com
    Learn the facts, read true stories, get tips for quitting smoking, test your knowledge, and see what tobacco can do to the lungs, heart, skin, and more.


Nutrition


25. Smart-Mouth.org
    Provides all the info you need to make healthy, informed decisions about the food you eat. Check out the cool recipes, food flicks, snacktoids, and more.
26. Fun Stuff from Dole's Five A Day Program
    Games, activities, and recipes teaching proper nutrition.
27. Nutrition Explorations
    Learn about smart eating, take the Food Bowl challenge, get some neat recipes, and learn all about good nutrition from the National Dairy Council.
28. Zip for Tweens
    Recipes, nutrition fun facts, and quizzes and info on food safety and fitness.


Safety


29. McGruff.org
    Great ideas for staying safe for kids and their parents from McGruff the Crime Dog. Includes puzzles, tips, stories, and more.
30. Elmer the Safety Elephant
    Let Elmer the Elephant teach you all about school bus, railway, and street safety. Includes info for parents as well as activities for kids!
31. Risk Watch: Kids Only!
    Test your safety smarts by playing games about being safe around fire, guns, bikes, poison, and water. From the National Fire Protection Association.
32. Stay Alert Stay Safe (SASS)
    Resources to help you stay safe on and off the net.
33. CodeRedRover.org
    Want to be a safety hound? Follow Rover around this cool site and play games that will teach you how to stay safe at home. Includes a safety checklist and encyclopedia.
34. Ready Kids, From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    Get information on making a supply kit and putting together a family communication plan both for a natural or man-made emergency.
35. Tox Town
    Check out this interactive guide to commonly encountered toxic substances.