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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 4: Marketing Low Fat
Learn why the campaign to reduce fat in our diet is the best example yet of how the science of nutrition can get highjacked by the ideology of nutritionism. [1:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 3: Phud Phads
Learn how the discovery of vitamins, while a major scientific achievement, also became a way for the food marketers to convince the public about the next "magic bullet" for optimal health, a trend that continues today. [5:06]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 2: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Learn about how the Western Diet, made up of lots of meat and highly processed foods full of salt, sugar and fat, leads to big profits for food companies and poor health for people. [3:35]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 1: Meet Anthony Scavotto
Learn how a real middle school student, Anthony Scavotto, and his family struggle to figure out what to eat to be healthy so he can play sports without getting tired, like other kids his age. [2:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: School Day Fitness
This Kindergarten through 2nd grade Kids in Motion activity is an exciting and relatable fitness activity about something all children understand- the school day! In this activity, students will focus on bending, exercising and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 10: Join the Movement
Learn about the food movement and how people all across the country are getting involved in growing food, shopping at farmers markets, and advocating for healthy food and food justice for all. [3:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 9: Secrets of the French
Learn that culture can be a very powerful way to teach us how to eat, and how the French have traditions and customs that help them eat well. [4:39]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 8: Vegetable Surprise
See how when students have a hand in producing healthy food they are more likely to try new and unfamiliar ingredients. Students in a summer camp get to make homemade pizzas using a wide variety of familiar and unusual vegetables that...
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Pbs Learning Media: Are You Stronger Than a Fifth Grade Teacher?
Students have a blast in this 3rd through 5th grade video competing against their teacher in this game of fitness and fun! Students pick an exercise to execute such as push-ups or squat jumps and gain points if the class can outlast...
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Pbs Learning Media: Action Verbs
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly. This is a great lesson to combine...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fun in Fitness
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher as she walks them through a variety of exercises and stretches targeting the whole body.
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Pbs Learning Media: Active Deck of Cards
Read playing cards to find out how many repetitions of each exercise to do. Then exercise along with the kids in the video to improve your number recognition and fitness level at the same time.
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Pbs Learning Media: Deal or No Deal
In this exciting video for grades 2 through 5, students get to unite the cognitive and psychomotor skills. Students pick a card with an exercise such as 20 crunches on it. They then decide whether to take the deal by showing a thumbs-up...
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Pbs Learning Media: Musical Math Facts
Calculate the sum of the addends on the screen to find out how many repetitions of each exercise to do. Then exercise along with the kids in the video to improve your mental math skills and fitness level at the same time. [9:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fitness Dice
Read the die to find out how many repetitions of each exercise to do. Then exercise along with the kids in the video to improve your number recognition and fitness level at the same time. [5:37]
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Pbs Learning Media: Uno Fitness
Using this interactive 2nd through 5th grade video, students use the popular game, UNO, to combine math, colors and psychomotor skills. [6:11]
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Pbs Learning Media: Move That Math
Calculate the sum of the two cards on the screen to find out how many repetitions of each exercise to do. Then exercise along with the kids in the video to improve your mental math skills and fitness level at the same time. [5:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Waddle
Get your students up and moving in this Kindergarten through 5th grade activity that connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud.
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Pbs Learning Media: Marvin K. Mooney
In this interactive Kindergarten through 5th grade activity, the world of fitness and literacy unite! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out...
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Pbs Learning Media: Animal Fitness
Engage your Kindergarten through 5th grade students this activity that combines motor and listening skills. Using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals.
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Pbs Learning Media: Sports Fitness
In this Kindergarten through 5th grade Kids in Motion video, students learn about fitness and sports. Students follow along with their teacher to perform exercises that can be found in all different sports. [12:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Survival Fitness
This interactive Kindergarten through 5th grade activity allows students to learn survival skills while using psychomotor and listening skills! Students follow along with their teacher as they act out the important survival skills they...
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Pbs Learning Media: Vacation Fitness
This Kindergarten through 5th grade activity makes for a very relatable and fun fitness activity! Students use their bodies to move through the motions of going on a vacation. [7:58]
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Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Weather Fitness
In this video, students learn a variety of fitness activities in which they depict the weather though movement. [10:38]