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  • BAM! Body and Mind

    This website gives kids ages 9 to 13 the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices.  The site focuses on topics that are important to them—such as stress and physical fitness—using kid-friendly lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features.  The Teacher's Corner provides interactive, educational, and fun activities that are linked to national education standards for science and health.

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  • Bienestar/NEEMA Health Program

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    These evidence-based bilingual and culturally-sensitive diabetes and obesity prevention curricula aim to increase physical activity and the intake of fruits, vegetables, and dietary fiber and decrease the intake of sweets and fatty foods in K-8 students.  Free, full-curriculum PDF samples are available for download. En español

    Social & Health Research Center (SHRC)

  • BodyWorks

    This program is designed to help parents and caregivers of adolescents ages 9 to 13 improve family eating and activity habits. The program toolkit focuses on parents as role models and provides them with hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. En español

    Office on Women's Health (OWH)

  • Eat Smart. Play Hard.

    This campaign provides practical resources to help motivate children and their caregivers to eat healthy and be active.

    U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service (FNS)

  • Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids

    This nutrition and activity guide for parents has colorful pages filled with tips for teaching children about the importance of proper diet and regular physical activity, and to form healthy habits early on. En español

    WellPoint Foundation

  • Kidnetic

    This website for kids tells you cool stuff about how your body works, how eating right helps you play better and feel good, and how staying active is lots of fun! En español

    Kidnetic

  • Let's Go

    Let’s Go! is a nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program that works to increase physical activity and healthy eating for children from birth to 18 through policy and environmental changes.

    Barbara Bush Children's Hospital

  • Media Smart Youth

    This curriculum for an after-school health promotion program is designed to teach young people ages 11 to 13 about the complex media world around them and how it can affect their health—especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.

    National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)

  • The Good Health Club

    This toolkit helps educate parents and children on ways to change to a healthier lifestyle and diet through a 5-2-1-0 message. The Good Health Club campaign promotes healthy choices and behaviors in children through fun, effective, age-appropriate communications. Some materials are available in Spanish.

    BlueCross and BlueShield Association

  • The HEALTHY Study

    This website makes publicly available materials that were used in the HEALTHY intervention program, which was designed to moderate risk factors for type 2 diabetes in adolescents including nutrition, physical education, behavior, and communications and social marketing. En español

    The HEALTHY Study

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