HEALTH & FITNESS

For Parents

Game On Activity Library

This Game On Activity Library contains multiple activities related to health and wellness. You can select activities using multiple filters.

Grow It, Try It, Like It!

This nutrition education kit, designed for preschool students, introduces children to vegetables and fruits.

Agriculture in the Classroom

Science projects, virtual tours, activities, and more designed to help students understand the importance of agriculture in our society.

OST Health Equity Messaging Resource

The OST Health Equity Messaging Resource unpacks the meaning of equity and provides sample language to health advocates working in the afterschool and summer program

Team Nutrition Cooks

This is a series of cooking-based nutrition activities for out-of-school and afterschool programs, for children around ages 8 to 12 years old.

Student Resources

This website contains some great tools for students that need eating disorders support.

Farm to School Network

Learn how to collect your youth with locally produced food, hands-on health education and activities that foster agricultural literacy. Learn More Toolkit

Spark PE

Spark PE has a set of afterschool curriculum materials. The full curriculum is not free, but they have sample lesson plans. They also host free

Boks Kids

This is a FREE physical activity program with 6 different curriculum options that works to improve children physically, mentally and socially by strengthening their minds

Let’s Move

Though this website is no longer being updated, it still contains plenty of resources about physical activity, health, and nutrition.

Eat Smart Idaho

Learn more about planning, shopping, cooking, and eating with children.

Food & Fun

This interactive site is geared towards getting out-of-school time staff and parents excited about promoting physical activity and nutrition. It contains 11 free units!

Teens Health

Designed for teens, this website contains articles, activities, and more related to a teen’s health.

Go Noodle

Hundreds of videos to get kids active. If you aren’t connected to a school, use Idaho Out-of-School Network as your school to access the premium

Truth Initiative

This website gives young people the facts about tobacco and the industry behind it. It also engages people to make change in their communities.

How to Smile: Cooking

Help kids learn about the science of cooking with these fun and engaging activities related to six different cooking topics.

Together Counts

Free resources to bring health and wellness to programs. Fun and flexible, Enrichment Zone helps kids develop an active, healthy lifestyle.

Student Sleep Resource

Check out Savvy Sleeper’s guide that highlights the importance of a good night’s rest for cognitive function and performance in students.

The Walking Classroom

This program teaches children to establish and maintain healthy lifestyle habits, while also building their health literacy and core content knowledge.

LG- Experience Happiness

Turn-key, standards-aligned materials provide engaging, hands-on activities that help students to identify actionable ways to bring happiness to their communities.

Physical Education Vocabulary

This list of physical education vocabulary words can be used to help you learn all about exercise and healthy activity.

Operation Prevention

These are no-cost online tools that support every member of the community with the power of prevention.

JOIN THE SEARCHABLE DIRECTORY OF YOUTH PROGRAMS

List your youth program for free on ION’s searchable online database. Families and youth are looking for out-of-school time options now.