| Wellness Choices Websites from: 2learn.ca/teens |
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24 Hours of Bullying - From Kids Help phone, watch the clock tick through the day as you learn about different types of bullying. 
http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/Teens/InfoBooth/Bullying/hoursofbullying.aspx
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No Signal - This game from Kids Help Phone is game show style; you get to choose the question and category as you test your bullying and online safety smarts.
http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/Teens/YourSpace/No-Signal.aspx
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Halloween Candy Game - "Drag pieces of candy into the pumpkin's mouth to see how quickly the calories climb! We'll tell you when you've fed the pumpkin a day's worth of calories." (site)
http://kidshealth.org/misc/movie/kid/pumpkin.html
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The ASL Files - Each ASL file has a different type of suspect and includes a chat conversation and debriefing. Choose one from the table to get the lowdown on these lowlifes. You'll get tips on how to analyze online interactions.
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_16/everythingelse/games/asl/
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Smoking - How does smoking cigarettes harm your body? Follow the instructions to learn about the human respiratory system and how smoking and cancer are related.
http://www.bootslearningstore.com/ks3/smoking.html
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Smoking Stinks - Take a tour through the body of a smoker and compare it with a non-smoker to see the long term effects of tobacco on the body.
http://e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Tobacco/index.html
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Muscle Machine (Pause to Play) - Try the muscle machine to learn which muscles are used to help participate in particular sports and games.
http://www.mhp.gov.on.ca/en/youth/p2p/cool-tools/e_interactive_muscle_machine.asp
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Energy Engine (Pause to Play) - Give food to Frank and select which sports he plays. This game helps you learn which types of foods are best to eat before participating in sports activities. Drag and drop either the food or the activity and watch what happens to Frank.
http://www.mhp.gov.on.ca/en/youth/p2p/cool-tools/e_interactive_energy_engine.asp
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Teeth and Eating: Different Types of Teeth - Learn about the different kinds of teeth in your mouth, and what they're used for, then take the quiz.
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=science/teet...
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Teeth and Eating: Healthy Eating - This is like the Concentration game. Find the matching pairs to discover which foods can help keep teeth healthy. Take the quiz at the end to make sure you read and understood the explanations.
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=science/teet...
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3dMouth.org - This site, sponsored by Wrigley Oral Health Care, has wonderful 3D images and interactives about the life of teeth, dental anatomy, mouth conditions and treatments.
http://www.3dmouth.org/0/0_intro.cfm
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Food Detectives Fight Bac - "We need your help to fight an enemy... Bacteria lives on the food you eat if it isn't cooked and handled properly. It also lives on dirty hands. Eeeww! Come with us, and we'll show you how to fight this disgusting enemy."
http://www.fooddetectives.com/trailer.html
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Mission Nutrition - Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is good nutrition. Try this game to see how you do!
http://kidshealth.org/kid/misc/mission_nutrition.html
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Let's Make a Meal - "A weekly meal plan is an important step for healthy eating. It can help you get organized, cut down on trips to the store, and reduce your reliance on take-out food. Don't let meal planning be a chore for you."Let's Make a Meal!" shows you how different meal choices can add up to a healthy day and...
http://www.dietitians.ca/public/content/eat_well_live_well/english/menuplanner/Overview.asp
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Jumble Gym - "It's tough to stay alert in classes all day, do stuff after school, see your friends, and get through all your homework at night. Who has time to add physical activity to this list? It's a weird but true fact: being active actually helps you feel more awake and have the energy to do all the things...
http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourbody/yourbody_equation_activity_game.html
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Canada's Food Guides - This CBC Interactive has a look at Canada's Food Guide as it has changed from the time it was created in 1949 to its last update in 2007.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/tl-foodguide/
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Calcium Calculator - Here is a list of foods that contain calcium. Check off what you ate yesterday or an average day. Are you getting enough calcium?
http://www.bestbonesforever.gov/whatsbest/calcium/calculator.cfm
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Serving Size Surprise - With this game, you estimate the actual size of servings of various kinds of food. You may be surprised at the recommended servings.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/23722/20760/227146.html?d
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Interactive Sound Ruler - This interactive activity lets you know which noises are too loud and can potentially damage your ears.
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/education/decibel/
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Come to Our Picnic - To help you manage a healthier picnic and BBQ this summer, we've prepared a picnic for your virtual consumption.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSCHN000/23722/14272/330662.html?d=dmtContent
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The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective - Be an amazing food detective and help these kids with bad eating habits. Then, you can play some theme mini-games.
https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/redirects/landingpages/afd/
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Best Bones Forever - This US site is a bone health campaign for girls, promoting activity, healthy eating and getting strong. Check out the quizzes, recipes and other special features.
http://www.bestbonesforever.gov/index.cfm
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Got Butterflies? - Got Butterflies? Tongue-Tied? Pounding Headache? Learn what short-term and long-term stress does to your body and how to cope with it through this interactive feature! (Click on "Click here to launch the feature!")
http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_gotbutterflies_game.html
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The Bully Roundup - Play this western-themed interactive board game to test your bully smarts. Also, read the article "Bully Beware" below to learn things you can do to stay out of a bully's way.
http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_bullyroundup_game.html
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Rate Your Diet - "The following 'Rate Your Restaurant Diet' Quiz can help you size up what you eat away from home." (site)
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/quiz/index.html
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Interactive Meal Planner - On this site, you can calculate the calorie, fat, and carbohydrate content of a range of foods--to help with planning daily meals.
http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/menuplanner/menu.cgi
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CFIA: Clean the Counter Game - Ever wondered about your kitchen counter and what might be lurking there? Find out about salmonella, listeria, e coli and more in this game.
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/educ/gamejeu/cleannete.shtml
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Exercising for a Healthy Heart - This multimedia presentation describes how exercise can be used to improve and sustain the health of your heart.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/exercisingforahealthyheart/htm/index.htm
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The Virtual Grocery Store - "The Virtual Grocery Store is brought to you through a partnership between Dietitians of Canada and the Canadian Diabetes Association. Come along on a virtual shopping tour through our on-line grocery store. You can take the tour either in French or English. Here you will learn how you can use the nutrition...
http://www.dietitians.ca/public/content/eat_well_live_well/english/vgs/index.asp
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The Score on Stadium Nutrition - Learn more about the fat and calorie counts in traditional food that you would eat while at a sporting event, such as hotdogs and hamburgers.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSCHN000/23722/14197.html
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Facts About Alcohol - "This is a series of cartoon frames in which a professor asks questions of a student, then points to a screen that shows information about alcohol. There are three distinct parts to the lesson: (1) what is a standard drink ; (2) why this information is important; and (3) how many drinks are in a can...
http://www.thecoolspot.gov/facts_game.asp
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Virtual Party - An interactive resource designed to provide youth with information about alcohol, emphasizing healthy choices and the reduction of harm. Virtual Party was developed by a Youth Advisory Team in partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
http://www.virtual-party.org/en/vpmain5615.html
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Managing Cholesterol - Learn more about what cholesterol is, how it can affect your heart health, and what can be done to reduce high levels of cholesterol.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/managingcholesterol/htm/index.htm
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Know Your Foods - On this site, find out which foods can be genetically modified, as well as why they might be genetically modified.
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/gmfoods/gmfoods.html
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Interactive Nutrition Label: Get the Facts - To help you better understand food labels, Health Canada has created a tool called the Interactive Nutrition Label. Learn how to use nutrition information to make informed choices about the foods you buy.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/label-etiquet/nutrition/cons/inl_flash-eng.php
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Interactive Nutrition Label Quiz - Test your knowledge of the contents you find on a nutrition label.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/label-etiquet/nutrition/cons/inl_quiz_flash-eng.php
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PBS Nova: Dying to be Thin - Body Needs - "Nutrition is an active field of research, with more being learned every day about the body's needs. Enter this feature to find out what your body needs to function at its best, and why. " [site introduction]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/needs.html
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Aspire - This interactive activity helps illustrate why people should stop smoking.
http://www2.mdanderson.org/app/aspire/site.html
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AADAC Arcadia: Fun and Games - Enjoy these great interactive games from the AADAC site. Games include: word search, e-postcards and snakes and ladders.
http://www.aadac.com/flash/arcadia/gamesactivities/index.htm
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Dining Decisions - This game helps you learn how to create healthy meals. It also helps you understand how different foods help your body.
http://www.bam.gov/sub_foodnutrition/diningdecisions_games.html
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Nutrition Cafe - Find out how much you know about nutrients and nutrition by playing these games.
http://exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/nutrition_cafe.html
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CFIA: Food Safety Web Wheel - Take a spin on the food safety web wheel and see how many questions you can answer!
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/educ/gamejeu/wheeroue.shtml
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Eating Disorders Quiz - Test your knowledge of eating disorders by completing this interactive quiz.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/quiz/eatingdisorders.html
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Healthy Eating - This page provides details regarding the types of foods that one should eat in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
http://www.need2know.co.uk/need2know/health/healthy_eating
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BBC: Interactive Body - Organs - "Plumb together your organs in the 3D jigsaw puzzle. This challenge takes 5-10 minutes." [site introduction]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?organs
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Save Your Skin - In this interactive, learn about the chemistry of sunscreen. Mix your own from the chemicals provided and then test it to see if its "fun or fry" on the beach.
http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_sunscreen_online.html
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Tissues of Life - "Learn about the 4 tissue types that make up the human body."
http://www.smm.org/tissues/
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Time for Bed - "Most kids between the ages of 5 and 12 need 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night. We'll show you some animals and you choose which one needs more sleep - the kid or the animal. We'll keep score so you'll know if you're a sleep star or a snore loser!
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/closet/games/bed_game.html
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The Immune Platoon - "Learn how the Immune Platoon keeps your body safe from infection and diseases." (site)
http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/diseases_immuneplatoon.html
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The Flow of Food - This interactive site will get you familiar with the path that your food takes after it enters your digestive system.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSCHN000/23722/24311.html
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Test Your Tobacco and Alcohol IQ - This interactive quiz tells you how much you know about tobacco and alcohol use.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/hstats/index.html
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Space Wrangler - By correctly answering the questions about drug use, you will be able to navigate your way through space.
http://teens.drugabuse.gov/havefun/wrangler/
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Smoking - The Facts - This multimedia presentation describes the risk factors associated with smoking.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/smokingthefacts/htm/index.htm
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Smart Mouth Video Clips - "Check out these videos to see fatty blood, a "health" food that's not, or learn what damage saturated fat can do." (site)
http://www.cspinet.org/smartmouth/video.html
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You Make Me Sick! - Meet Mr. Pukey-Guts and find out why he wants to puke. This rather "gross" game helps you understand the harmful effects of many foods and addictions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3940000/newsid_3945000/3945011.stm
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Your Body, By the Numbers - Learn about the different parts of your body and what they do; test your knowledge with a quiz.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSCHN000/23722/21274.html
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Sara's Quest - Learn more about the effects of different types of drugs, such as steroids and nicotine, by helping Sara complete her quest.
http://teens.drugabuse.gov/sarasquest/sqgame.asp
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Quiz - Fighting Disease: Health at the End of the New Millennium - Take this quiz to find out how much you know about the causes and cures of diseases.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/health/quiz/index.html
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Probe the Brain (PBS Nova) - "Beginning in the 1940s, Canadian brain surgeon Wilder Penfield mapped the brain's motor cortex -- the area that controls the movement of your body's muscles. He did this by applying mild electric currents to the exposed brains of patients while they were in surgery. Now you can relive his exploration...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mind/probe.html
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PBS: Morphing Embryos - Choose from these videos of a human, pig, chicken, and fish embryo. See them develop. These videos require QuickTime.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/odyssey/clips/
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PBS Nova: Surviving Aids - Fighting Back - "In this interactive a mumps virus enters the body, then enters a cell. There it makes copies of itself. How does the immune system respond? It's up to you to figure it out. A play-by-play explanation will follow, as well as an explanation of what makes an attack by the AIDS virus unique...and devastating."...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aids/immunewave.html
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PBS Electric Heart - Map of the Human Heart - "Put your finger on the pulse of how the human heart works with an automatically changing color graphic of a heart in cross-section." (site)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/heartmap.html
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Overboard - This virtual comic book explores issues that teenagers face related to addiction.
http://www.thirteen.org/closetohome/overboard/menu.html
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My Pyramid Blastoff Game - In this interactive activity, students learn how to balance a nutritious diet with an active lifestyle. After selecting their daily mix of diet and activity, they are given a "mission report", which provides feedback related to their choices.
http://www.mypyramid.gov/kids/kids_game.html#
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My Body - Explore the body with this interactive site..learn all about the different body systems.
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/mybody_SW.html
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My Body (KidsHealth) - The Circulation System, The Muscles, The Ear, The Digestive Tract, The Eye, The Respiratory System. A very nice site with great animated gifs and sounds.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/mybody.html
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InnerG - Learn how to keep the various parts of your body, such as your heart and intenstines, healthy.
http://www.kidnetic.com/Innerg/
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Infectious Diseases Through Time - Trace the development of smallpox, cholera, plague, tuberculosis and HIV through time from 2400 B.C. to today.
http://www.diseasedetectives.org/timeline
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How the Body Works - "How does your blood move around? What happens in your stomach when you eat an apple? Check out these cool movies to see and hear the ins and outs of your insides."[site introduction]
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/closet/movies/how_the_body_works_interim.html
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E-Eats - This page describes issues related to the food that we eat and how we can consider eating in a more environmentally responsible fashion.
http://www.kcpt.org/eats/
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Your Gross and Cool Body - Learn about all those things most people don't want to talk about - everything from belches and bad breath to stinky pits!
http://www.yucky.com/flash/body/index.html
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Drag and Drop the Body Parts - Play this game to see how much you know about the parts of the human body!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/tykids/flash/bodyparts.html
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Dr. Nida's Challenge - In this interactive activity, you can build your character by learning more about the dangers of drug use.
http://teens.drugabuse.gov/havefun/DrN_BodyQuiz.asp
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Do the Microbe Dance - Choose your game: identify the microbe, prevent it or treat it. After you win your game, do the microbe dance!
http://www.diseasedetectives.org/microbe_dance
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Operation: Airway Invaders - Are you ready to be a special agent and take part in this important mission?
http://asthmakids.ca/flash/airwayInvaders/airwayInvaders.html
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Bonko's Body Quiz - Test your knowledge of the health effects of drugs and tobacco by taking Bonko's interactive quiz.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/games/bonko_flash.html
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BodyWorks Games (Science World) - Fun online games you can play to learn about a variety of topics related to how the human body works. You'll need the free Flash Player.
http://www.scienceworld.ca/teachers_outreach/play_online/bw_games.htm
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BBC: Interactive Body - Skeleton - "Get the joints and unusual bones in the right places. This challenge takes 5-10 minutes"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?skeleton
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BBC: Interactive Body - Nervous System - "Wire up the nervous system and senses. This challenge takes 5-10 minutes."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?nervous
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BBC: Interactive Body - Muscles - "Put the mystery muscles into the right places on the body. This challenge takes 5-10 minutes." [site introduction]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?muscles
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What Happens During an Asthma Flare-Up? - This Flash movie demonstrates and explains what happens when asthma flares up.
http://kidshealth.org/misc/movie/cc/how-asthma-affects.html
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Antibiotic Attack - This interactive activity helps you look at the pros and cons of using antibiotics to treat illness. Play the role of a doctor who must treat seven patients and try to keep them from going to the hospital. You can use five different medicines, each of which can cause different side effects. The more...
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/antibiotic.html
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American Dental Association: All about Teeth and Tooth Care - This presentation is complete with movies on good dental health. Learn about teeth, brushing flossing, root canals and special treatments.
http://www.ada.org/public/games/animation/interface.asp
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All Systems Are a Go! - "Arnold is missing a number of body parts. Students are presented with a body system and a variety of organs. Students drag and drop all the organs that belong in that particular body system to Arnold's body. Once all four systems are complete, a clothed Arnold will appear. But if students drag in an...
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html
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Agent Guy Simplant - This fun and interactive activity will help you learn about the heart and implants.
http://depts.washington.edu/simplant/
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Ad Decoder Game - What�s the deal? Turn the pages in this interactive magazine and learn about the messages behind the ads you see every day. Why? Learning about the messages behind the ads will help you understand the differences between real vs. ideal and know the truth will help you craft a positive self-image!...
http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_addecoder_game.html
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Health Career Abbreviations - Learn more about what certain health abbreviations mean.
http://www.quia.com/mc/69205.html
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