Feature Story

Introducing NBC Learn

NBC News Archives on Demand Health and Wellness video collection provides 3-5 minute video clips that focus on positive lifestyle choices and the latest research in health science. Explore body systems, health and hygiene, exercise and fitness, food and nutrition, and advances in medicine, along with mental heath resources addressing self-image, relationships, stress management, conflict resolution, and mental health disorders.
Read more

Fitness Zone

Fitness Zone activities provide a good way to integrate fitness into your classroom. You can use them to give students a quick break between subjects, so they settle down to focus on new material more easily.

Ball-Aerobics – Routine

Organize students into groups of four, with each student having a small object, such as an eraser. Each member of the group will make up an activity to do with the object for eight counts and then teach it to the other members of the group. The group will then put the four parts together into a Ball-Aerobic Routine. The students' goal for this activity is to create moderate- to high-intensity movements to get everyone into their target heart rate zone.

You can find more energy boosters like these in FitnessZone.

Professional Development

Alternative Assessment-Based Strategies

Measuring students' proficiency in meeting health education curriculum standards is best accomplished through performance assessment strategies. Performance-based assessment focuses on capturing what all students, independent of learning style, know and can do. And just as important, performance-based assessment makes the learning process directly applicable to students' lives in ways that are both challenging and motivating.
Read more

Teacher Tips—What Works!

Teacher tips are tried and true teaching strategies developed by health education teachers around the country. Take a look at some classroom activities that really work.
Read more