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Children's Health
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| This section of the Health-E-AME website focuses on children from newborn through pre-adolescence. It is divided into two parts. The Early Childhood section is for teachers in day care and Head Start centers. It provides curriculum and activities for pre-school children related to healthy living. The Children's Health section is for parents and school-aged children. It focuses on disease prevention, child development, diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses, parenting, and special topics. There is a place for you to add suggestions for more topics you would like to see. |
Print & Play
Fruit Finder / Fruit Finder (answer sheet) |
Early Childhood
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Visit Dole 5 A Day for
age-appropriate curriculums, lesson plans and games to share with
your students. Nutrition can be fun for students through songs, games
and a fruit and vegetable encyclopedia. Get great ideas from other
educators on how to use Dole 5 A Day in your classroom today! |
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Team up with Team Antioxidants
to teach your students about the benefits of vitamins and antioxidants.
Fresh Starts offers lesson
plans, games, an interactive coloring book and a reading list to share
with your students |
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Nutrition
Explorations is a teacher's dream for nutrition education for
the basic food groups. This site is a package deal with lesson plans
and activities as well as nutrition education material and other resources
for teachers. |
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Did you know simple household chores
can help a child learn and develop skills they need. Preschool
Power is for teachers and parents of toddlers and preschoolers.
Browse the Site Map for printable lessons and tips on how to teach
little ones. |
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I'm Safe is a very informative
site for parents and teachers with children of any age. This site
has safety tips and safety info that could help keep your loved ones
safe at home, play, and around the neighborhood. |
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Ever wonder if you are feeding your child properly? Do kids need
the same amounts adults need? Check out the Young
Children's Food Guide Pyramid for proper serving sizes and for
a guide to help your child be as healthy as they can be! |
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Teachers get your toddler and preschool aged students interested
in nutrition. Use the Young
Children's Food Guide Pyramid Coloring Page to help teach the
food groups and good nutrition. Remember, healthy habits start at
a young age! |
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Children's Health
For Parents
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PBS Parents |
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Visit the ADA Kids' Corner to find games, information sheets and answers you may have about your oral health.
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A world of pediatric information is a click away at Pediatric Planet.
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Are you looking for sound info on the overall health of your child?
Well look no further. Kids
Health has info on nutrition, fitness, parenting, medical problems,
emotions and much more to help you deal with your child. |
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Ever wonder what the key is to a healthy diet. Nutrition
Exploration focuses on the Basic Food Groups. Gather info on quick
meal ideas, family-friendly recipes, up-to-date nutrition info for
your family and great activities. |
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Tired of begging your kids to eat their fruits and veggies. Well
Dole 5 A Day has tips to help,
fun recipes kids can help prepare, activities for kids and a reference
center that gives nutrition info on fruits and veggies. |
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Hey parents want to be "hip?" Visit Girl
Power and see if you are a cool or a clueless parent. This site
contains quizzes, articles, great resources on drugs, alcohol, safety,
teen pregnancy, nutrition and more. |
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This site is for parents who want to take an active part in their
child's life as well as their own. Primus
Web has nutrition, fitness, managing weight and lifestyle info
to help you and family be the healthiest possible. |
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The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention has A-Z topics on all aspects of
children's health, safety, and nutrition. Definitely a good site for
parents with children of any age. |
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Fresh Starts is the place
to go if you want to teach your children about vitamins and antioxidants.
Find recipes, activities and easy to understand info on Team Antioxidants! |
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Looking for educational activities for your children or students.
At Welltown there are several
activities to help teach your child or student about issues on safety
and health at home, at school and even at the park. |
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Calling parents and teachers! Step into the Galaxy
if you need activities or info for children on mental health, relationships,
physical activity or drugs to name a few. |
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Looking for parenting tips? Parenting
has advice for parents with children from birth through the teen years
coving many topics such as divorce. |
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For Children
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With Hurricane session beginning on June 1st, learn what to do when disaster strikes with Herman at FEMA for Kids |
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PBS Parents |
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Between The Lions - PBS Kids |
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Fantastifood Fables
has a fun and exciting adventure waiting for you. Follow the adventures
of the "Attack of the Junk Food Junkies" with an actual
online book. This is one story you will not want to miss! |
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Want to learn all about general health? No, not by having to hang
out at your doctor's office. Instead hang out in Kids
Health and find out facts about your body, growing up, play cool
games and show your smarts by looking up medical words to stump your
family. |
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Girl Power rocks! It has
information on health, alcohol, drugs, sports, eating disorders and
more. There are also links to other cool websites and awesome games,
activities and sleepover ideas. |
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Hey kids check out Dole 5 A Day!
There are games, facts, an encyclopedia that tells the history of
fruits and veggies and recipes you can make for your family. |
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Nutrition Exploration
is a fun place to explore nutrition, especially on the Basic Food
Groups. Play games, find cool recipes, snack ideas and awesome links
to other sites just for you. |
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Do you know what vitamins are? How about antioxidant? Well join
Team Antioxidants to learn
all about how important vitamins are through games, activities and
even yummy recipes. |
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Come visit Welltown! Here
you will find activities to help teach you about taking good care
of yourself. It could be brushing your teeth the proper way, eating
healthy or how to be safe when playing with friends. |
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Cool Food Planet
is definitely the coolest planet in the universe. Learn about how
to keep your brain and body fit, build healthy habits and test your
nutrition knowledge. |
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Nutrition is not just the food you eat, but also how it is prepared.
The Food and
Drug Administration has many interactive word searches and quizzes
you can do online. Check this site out for info on food safety, vaccines
and pet safety. |
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Hungry! The
Nutrition Café has games and activities focussing on food
and
nutrition. You can plan meals and see how healthy they are or play
games to test
your nutrition "know how." Guaranteed you will be full of
nutrition when you leave.
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For more information, contact:
Rosetta Swinton, RN
Episcopal Director of Health
Ph: (843) 876-1949
Fax: (843) 792-7476
swintonr@musc.edu |
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