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KET/EncycloMedia Resources to PromotePhysical Activity and Healthy Lifestyles

KET EncycloMedia

K-2*Jack the Apple: Getting Active. (1999) (3 segments) Extols the benefits of staying active,more walking, less TV. An animated apple encourages a young boy.

K-2*Blue Dragons: Building Bodies. (2004) (6 segments) Very cute cartoon series for childrenexplaining the importance of exercise, rest, and nutrition.

K-4*Food and Nutrition: Part 1. (12 segments) Via a tour of a grocery, a boy learns about all partsof the food pyramid, along with info about reading labels for sugars. Uses the old pyramid

model. Not very engaging but informative. Also, Abby, the Apple adds cute, animatedinformation.

K-5**Food Smarts. (2006) (8 segments) Current, uses new food pyramid model. Videosemphasize eating properly and exercise in a camp situation. Good info about the importanceof breakfast and the trouble with sugar in food. (Teachers Guide)

K-8**Fit Kids Classroom Workout. (3 segments; KET ED On Demand has complete series)Funky, contemporary, 5-minute workout videos. One segment, in particular, uses AfricanDance. Cool.

K-8**Dancing Threads. (2 programs; KET ED On Demand has complete series) KET-producedseries about folk dances and playparty games. Each of the four programs includes completeinstructions and demonstrations of the featured folk dance.

3-5The Magic School Bus: Works Out. (Scholastic, 1996) Discovery Education

3-8*Food and Nutrition: Part 2. (2000) (8 segments) Energy Man (superhero, of sorts) explainsthe importance of healthy eating and describes the food pyramid and shows how to read labels.

Fairly entertaining.

6-8***Managing Your Health: Weight Control. (2004) (7 segments) Learn the toll obesity takeson health. Discover how fats and sugars contribute to weight, the danger of diet aids, and thebenefits of good old-fashioned exercise. One of the best for students: current, informative,engaging.

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6-8Live Right, Grow Right: Its the Only Body Youve Got! (1999) (12 segments) Surprisinglygood for such an old series. Two teens narrate the series and give basic info enriched by videoclips.

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How Exercise Affects the Health of the Heart and Circulatory System. (Cochran, 1989)Discovery Education

6-8**Why Exercise? (2002) (10 segments) Discusses the history of exercise before explaining itsbenefits for the heart and muscles. Other segments cover nutrition. Pretty good series forstudents.

6-8Feel Good, Think Sharp, Look Your Best. (2002) (8 segments) Shows how to adopt healthfuldaily routines--with the emphasis on exercise--to prevent the onset of diseases normallyassociated with sedentary lifestyles. Good information, current, but narrator drones. More

informative than inspiring.

6-12**Reality Matters: Obesity and Nutrition. (2005) (9 segments) Good quality; current; movesquickly, much like a TV news magazine segment. Directly addresses teen nutrition issues andobesity. Great for schools.

6-12Behind the News: Your Body. (2005) This series, a Discovery program, uses a news format todiscuss healthy eating, exercise, and obesity. The only drawback: It addresses Australianteens.

6-12Reality Matters: Obesity and Nutrition. (Discovery Education, 2005). Discovery Education:

9-12Nutrition and Exercise: Teen Wellness. (1996) (12 segments) Somewhat dated and corny.Encourages teens to look and feel good inside and outside by eating right and getting enoughexercise and rest.

9-12***My Pyramid: Simple Steps to Healthy Living. (2006) (12 segments) Very good quality butbetter suited to grades 6-8. Best one on the pyramid and nutrition. No exercise segments.

9-12**Skills for Healty Living: Setting Goals for Healthy Living. (2006) (18 segments) News magformat. Each segment shows a different teen with a different healthy goal. Great quality;informative; engaging.

9-16/PDLily Series: Childhood Obesity, Lily Faces a Problem. (1999) (8 segments) Great forparents and teachers. A very sensitive look at childhood obesity and how to avoid/correct it from

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the perspective of a mother who notices her daughter is gaining weight. Offers strategies, too.Very good, but somewhat dated and not for classrooms.

Professional Development*Active Me, Healthy Me Series (2005) (6 segments) Child care providers are the targetaudience, but the series would work great for parents and teachers, too. Very good quality but

not really for student audiences.

LastlyA segment fromYour Genes Your Future titled Obesity in America, a 30minute, very candiddocumentary about the stereotypes, struggles, health risks, and costs of obesity to Americans.This clip is an eye-opener, but I would be sensitive about showing in a classroom with any veryobese kids. Feelings would be hurt.

KET ED On Demand (www.ket.org/keted)

PrimaryWell, Well, Well with Slim Goodbody.Helps young students understand concept ofwellness, learn ways of caring for the mind and body, and develop self-respect. Topics includenutrition, exercise, hygiene, etc.

K-6Fit Kids Classroom Workout. Fun, contemporary dance routines that can be used in anyschool space, any time, any day. Includes four 5-minute and two 10-minute workouts, plus abrief healthy message at the end of each exercise segment. Two 10-minute choreographedworkouts link moves taught in shorter workouts. Includes variety of genre: funk, African, Latin,and aerobic.

K-8**Dancing Threads. KET-produced series about folk dances and playparty games fromAppalachian, African American, and Native American cultures. Each of the four programsincludes complete instructions and demonstrations of the featured folk dance.

4-8Healthy Body, Healthy Mind. 18-part series emphasizes importance of building a healthy bodyand healthy mind. Topics include good nutrition and value of exercise.

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