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Moms Team: Fluid Guidelines for Young Athletes

For Students 9th - 10th
Athletes of all ages should drink fluids before, during, and after physical activity to ensure that they don't become dehydrated. Learn how many ounces of water and sports drink you should consume to keep yourself hydrated when you...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Swimming Pool

For Students K - 1st
We're investigating the number of steps we would climb up or down to get out of or into the swimming pool. How could you number the steps below the water? This activity uses the familiar environment of a swimming pool to introduce...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Body and Mind: Activity Cards

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about sports and activities you can participate in to get in shape and have fun. Click on the name of a specific sport and read an "Activity card," with information on sports gear, safety, and more.
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Nutrition Fluid Intake

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about sweat, dehydration, fluid intake, and rehydration at this website, which also provides a chart listing the calories and carbohydrates in several popular sports drinks.
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Merriam Webster: Visual Dictionary Online: Water Skis

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Labeled diagram of a pair of water skis.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Mc Kinley Health Center: Hydration Needs for Exercise [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a simple, yet useful, resource for anyone wanting information on how to stay hydrated and healthy during exercise and every day. Provides "Hydration tips," and a comparison of water and sports drinks.
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International Swimming Hall of Fame

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to aquatic athletes who have achieved greatness in the field of swimming, diving, water polo and sychronised swimming. It contains a video and photo archive, plus recent news and biography of Hall of Famers.
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Kids Health: Staying Healthy

For Students 3rd - 5th
Find yummy recipes for food to make yourself! There are also articles about the reasons for vitamins and minerals, how to eat when you're playing sports, and a number of other important topics.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Snorkeling

For Students 3rd - 8th
Meet an expert at snorkeling and learn some basics on how to play. Find out what gear you'll need, safety tips, and fun facts.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Surfing

For Students 3rd - 8th
Meet an expert at surfing and learn some basics on how to play. Find out what gear you'll need, safety tips, and how it relates to science.
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Moms Team: Hydration: Replacing Electrolytes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a simple overview of electrolytes and their function when it come to your health. Learn why electrolytes are important, how they are lost during sports and physical activity, how they are replaced by foods, when electrolyte...
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Land Between the Lakes

For Students 9th - 10th
Land Between the Lakes is a national recreation area on the border of Tennessee and Kentucky that offers hiking, biking, camping, hunting, water sports, horseback riding, and much more. The park also has an elk and bison prairie,...
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Kids Health: Dehydration and Treating Dehydration

For Students 9th - 10th
KidsHealth: Dehydration and Treating Dehydration
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Kids Health: Dehydration

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to providing a good definition of "Dehydration," this website explains how dehydration affects the body, how people get dehydrated, and how you can treat and prevent dehydration.
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US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Dehydration

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article on dehydration is organized into several sections, including: "Definition," "Causes, incidence, and risk factors," "Symptoms," and "Treatment."
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Royal National Lifeboat Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a British organization that promotes and teaches about sailing. It is a non-profit group dedicated to sailing.
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International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee: Artistic Swimming

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Watch and learn about the sport called artistic swimming. See positions done while swimmers are on the surface of the water and while submerged. Colorful drawings show you positions like the "crane," the "fishtail," the "horseman," the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's the Conductivity of Gatorade?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use conductivity meters to measure various salt and water solutions, as indicated by the number of LEDs (light emitting diodes) that illuminate on the meter. Students create calibration curves using known amounts of table salt...
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Merriam Webster: Visual Dictionary Online: Swimmer in Starting Blocks

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustration of a swimmer, in the starting blocks.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Irrigation Research Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
A challenge for students to learn more about the importance of field maintenance and water irrigation in sports and then produce a short informational video covering these topics. Specifically, students will record a video after they...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Thirsty for Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, the students will learn what a ratio is and how it can be used in a comparison. In this lesson, students will also determine how to combine a sports drink in powder form and water to make enough for a whole football team....
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Science Kids: Science Images: Rafting

For Students 9th - 10th
A group of rafters head down the rapids of a river used for white water rafting.
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Eternal Egypt: Relief of Boatmen Jousting

For Students 9th - 10th
This relief shows a sporting competition of boatmen in a small stream or pond full of water lilies.

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