These health-focused apps, games, and sites give kids the straight dope on a host of essential and often taboo topics about bodies. Students can use these tools to look up nutrition facts, learn about diseases, and ask questions about sex. They'll also be moving: practicing yoga, enhancing motor skills through teamwork, and analyzing sports techniques. Whether it's in physical education (PE) and health class or in core content areas like science, students are sure to find the vital information they need to stay energized and active.Â
Relaxing and serene app helps incorporate peace into daily life
Bottom Line: If you're looking for a captivating app to teach relaxation and calming skills to students, Calm is an essential tool to add to your toolbox.
Track daily habits to recognize and improve work-life balance
Bottom Line: This is an easy way to get a feel for how good you feel about your work, but without suggestions for positive change, the onus is on teachers to figure out how to improve their situation.
Game-making platform fuses coding and physical play
Bottom Line: This platform could appear gimmicky at first, but in practice it blends SEL, movement, collaboration, and STEM learning in clever, compelling ways.
Interactive story explores diabetes health issues, lacks depth
Bottom Line: A kid-friendly way to teach an important message about healthy living, but a missed opportunity to fully engage kids with assessment or gameplay.
Nutrition game presents healthy foods and good habits, little else
Bottom Line: Space Chef introduces students to healthy ingredients and recipes in a fun way, but important facts and rationales are separate from the game itself.
Quirky, fact-filled videos help adults answer kids' sex-ed questions
Bottom Line: An appealing, approachable collection of resources that help teachers and caregivers field kids' tough questions about puberty, relationships, and more.
