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Explore our wellness resources designed for teachers! Discover activities and curriculum ideas to support physical activity, brain boosts, energizers, nutrition education, social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and non-food rewards and celebrations - all tools to help your students thrive in the classroom.
Explore our wellness resources designed for teachers! Discover activities and curriculum ideas to support physical activity, brain boosts, energizers, nutrition education, social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and non-food rewards and celebrations - all tools to help your students thrive in the classroom.
Physical Activity - Energizers, Brain Boosts
Mindfulness - Music, Games, Movement, and Breathing Exercises
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"A collection of our popular articles and videos about how theater games and improvisation can spark creativity, build relationships, and boost academics and executive function skills alike. " Many of these articles and videos incorporate movement and SEL skills.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Create your free account and get started implementing classroom physical activity breaks using our Physical Activity Task Cards or Fitness Trail Station Cards that you can print and use anytime throughout the school day. And don’t miss our Fitness Break Videos, which are sure to get students out of their seats and moving.
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Teacher Toolbox
Download free activity calendars for elementary and secondary classrooms to use for a brain boost.
Elementary and middle school energizers are classroom-based physical activities that help teachers integrate physical activity with academic concepts. These are short (about 10 minute) activities that classroom teachers can use to provide physical activity to children.
During the school day, children and youth need a “break” from sedentary activities in the classroom. Physical activity breaks meet this need and can increase individuals’ daily physical activity levels.
Fuel Up For Educators
Fuel Up For Educators
Get ready for great classroom-ready lesson plans, hands-on student activities, opportunities to apply for equipment grants, and overall wellness support for you and your students.
As high school students navigate more rigorous academic tasks and denser curricular material, the occasional 3-to-5-minute break delivers a wide range of benefits.
Overall wellness resources to make the healthy choice FREE, fun and rewarding! You can join as a teacher and receive access to physical activity challenges, nutrition education and exclusive school resources for your classroom.
Physical activity doesn’t need to be limited to recess or PE. Teachers can use movement breaks—often called brain breaks, energizers, or brain boosters—to energize or calm students at key moments like after lunch or before a test. The goal is simple: get kids moving during the school day. More resources for elementary AND SECONDARY at the bottom of the page.
NUTRITION
NUTRITION
Team Nutrition supports the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program by providing training for school food service, nutrition education for children and families, and resources to support a healthier school environment.
Nutrition From the Hart
A website to help you build healthy food relationships for yourself and the children you love. Classroom resources may be found in the Nutrition Education Resource Library.
Educators, discover curriculum for students in elementary through high school that includes STEM concepts, educating students on where their milk comes from and how dairy contributes to the world.
Learn more about the Adopt a Cow Program from Discover Dairy; a free program that connects students with a dairy farm family to learn and provides lessons with Common CORE standards.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Imagine a world where you can succeed by being nice. Where we all pay it forward. Where people look out for each other. It all starts with an act. Find classroom resources with ideas to teach kindness.
These life skill resources from the American Heart Association promote SEL learning objectives in the areas of communication, conflict resolution, teamwork, listening, assertiveness and fairness.
MINDFULNESS
MINDFULNESS
NON-FOOD REWARDS and CELEBRATIONS
NON-FOOD REWARDS and CELEBRATIONS
Celebrate student successes with meaningful, non-food rewards! Recognizing effort and achievement with activities, privileges, or small tokens helps build motivation, encourages positive behavior, and supports a healthy classroom environment.
Select the drop-down menu for additional non-food rewards.
Non-food Rewards in the Classroom Fact Sheet.pdf (South Dakota)
Effective & Healthy Rewards for Kids.pdf (Coalition on Children and Weight San Diego)
Alternatives to Food as Reward.pdf (Connecticut)
Alternatives to Food Reward in Classroom.pdf (Colorado)
Constructive Classroom Rewards: Promoting Good Habits While Protecting Children’s Health.pdf
Alternatives to Food Rewards.pdf (Connecticut)
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