Colds and the Flu Explained

After years of not getting sick this winter I've had the flu and caught a few colds. My latest cold has knocked me back this week. The o...

Arthur Family Health Teaches Kids and Adults About Taking Care of Themselves

Arthur Family Health is a new resource from PBS Kids. Arthur Family Health is designed to help parents, teachers, and students learn about ...

Quickly Compare Two or More Things in Wolfram Alpha

In their 15th anniversary blog post last week, Google mentioned that you can now compare things by simply typing "compare" betwee...

Videos - What If You Stopped Sleeping or Going Outside?

AsapScience recently released a couple of short videos that could fit well in middle school and high school health courses. What If You Sto...

5 Resources to Help Students Make Healthy Food Choices

The school district neighboring mine recently announced a new health and fitness curriculum that emphasizes "lifetime" fitness. On...

Get Healthy With Google

Last week the Official Google Blog ran a blog post about how many Google apps and services can be used to support and promote healthy lifes...

Depression Quest - An Interactive Story About Depression

Depression Quest is a website that features an interactive story designed to educate people about depression. The story puts you in the pla...

A Simple Guide to Vitamins

More Than Supplemental is a nice infographic designed and published by S.B. Lattin Design. The infographic provides a guide to foods that a...

Chew or Die Encourages Kids to Try Healthy Foods

Chew or Die is a free iPad, iPhone, and Android app that encourages people to try new healthy foods. The free app contains a series of heal...

How to Protect Your Eyes from Computer Screens

Image Source: Theen A few weeks ago The Atlantic had a story about the Vision Council's recent report on digital eye strain . The sixt...

Infographic - Too Much Sugar Consumption

Sometimes I see something online that instantly makes me think of a particular teacher. This morning I saw Nursing Your Sweet Tooth on Cool...

Make Fitness Fun with Google Maps

In the past I've written about using Google Maps in a physical education and or health education class to have students map walking and ...

Dick's Sporting Goods Offers Free Concussion Testing for U.S. Schools

This morning Drew Brees was on the Dan Patrick show to promote a new initiative from Dick's Sporting Goods. The initiative called PACE...

Video and Reminder - Wear Your Bike Helmet

This morning I went out for a mountain bike ride in a local state forest. We had thunderstorms last night so things we're still quite sl...

CNN Student News - A Soda Pop Ban?

This morning's episode of CNN Student News has a story about a proposed New York City law that would limit the size of soda pop drinks ...

Interactive Animated Explanation of Body Mass

As I've mentioned in the past, my school district recently received a grant for programs to address the rate of childhood obesity in our...

Eat Different Encourages Healthy Habits

Eat Different is a service that aims to help people change their eating habits. The basic premise of the site is to provide a place for use...

Would You Eat That? Learn What Is In Your Food

The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago recently released a new game designed to promote awareness of the ingredients in common foods. W...

Explain It To Me Explains Concussions

When I was playing sports in school I don't think anyone ever mentioned the word concussion to us. Subsequently, I'm sure that one o...

Interactive Animated Heart

Explania is one of my favorite resources for animated explanations of topics in technology and science. Some of their offerings are videos ...