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President's or National Fitness Test
The President's Challenge website includes many helpful tools for educators, including: The President's or National Fitness Test, Fitness File, and more!
Kansas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (KAHPERD)
KAHPERD is Kansas's advocate association for promoting a healthy, active lifestyle. You can have access to more helpful resource sites, workshops, grants, journals, newsletters, and more through this website.
Chew On This by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson
"Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn't survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald's? It's true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast food restaurant. Not only has fast food reached into the toy industry, it's moving into our schools. One out of every five public schools in the United States now serves brand name fast food. But do kids know what they're eating? Where do fast food hamburgers come from? And what makes those fries taste so good?"
Feed My Brain - Eating to Excel by Dr. Alexander Schauss
"Feed My Brain - Eating to Excel" is the long awaited reprint of the 1991 Simon & Schuster sold out classic "Eating for A's". When released in 1991, "Eating for A's" was derived from the knowledge gained and substantiated by the largest nutritional study on children ever conducted. In addition over 45 years of nutrition studies and 34 years of research background by the authors was called upon to create the "Feed My Brain Program". After the data from the 800,000 student study in New York City was released, Dr. Schauss and co-authors Barbara Friedlander Meyer and Arnold Meyer compiled this "how to" book, training parents and children in the ways of healthy eating."
A Running Start: How Play, Physical Activity & Free Time Create a Successful Child by Rae Pica
"What parent doesn't want their child to achieve? But somehow, life today for young children has become a dress rehearsal for type-A adulthood - a great big competition to be the best. If you've felt pressured to enroll your kids nonstop in special lessons, extracurricular academics, and organized sports lest the risk falling behind, you need to know: there is an easier way. In this revolutionary guide, movement specialist Rae Pica explains how the best head start we can give our children is literally A Running Start. New research shows it's the free time spent interacting with the world - exploring the outdoors, playing tag at recess, and inventing games - that helps boost creativity, confidence, and resourceful problem-solving skills. In fact at young ages, highly competitive activities can actually interfere with kids' natural development. And when it comes to academics, starting earlier is not necessarily better. Practical throughout, A Running Start offers techniques for raising a child with the right balance of free play and structured activity..."
A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne
"A Framework for Understanding Poverty teaches the hidden rules of economic class and spreads the message that, despite the obstacles poverty can create in all types of interaction, there are specific strategies for overcoming them."
