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Cool Food Kidz Teaches Kids About Diet & Fitness

eric — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:21 +0000

Cool Food Kidz Teaches Kids About Diet & Fitness:”

Cool Food Kidz is a kid-friendly website about nutrition, exercise, and general health. Cool Food Kidz provides easy-to-read lists of things they can do to take care of their health. For example, there is a list of ‘building healthy habits’ tips which walks kids through ten basic things they can do to keep themselves healthy. Cool Food Kidz also provides students with tips for dental health and tips for keeping their brains sharp. The tips for eating out section offers advice to students on picking a healthy lunch and healthy snack foods.

Applications for Education

Cool Food Kidz could be a good resource for elementary and middle school health teachers.”

(Via Free Tech For Teachers.)

BrainFlips: Free Online Flashcards

eric — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:57:40 +0000

Flash cards are a staple of students studying toolbox, but the tedious work required to create and share them sometimes gets in the way of their regular use. Enter BrainFlips, one of the best flashcard sites I’ve come across. An account (free) is required to create and share flash card decks, but no account is required to use the decks that other users have created which as of this writing there are 726 decks available. Some cool examples include: Barack Obama, Addition, and Introductory Spanish. Plus each deck can be viewed in one of 3 ways: Introduction mode, which gives you the question and answer side by side, Traditional Mode, shows question and then the answer, or Response Mode, which creates a multiple choice game out of the cards.

Thanks to FreeTech4Teachers for finding this site.