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The key to a good learning environment is engaging and informative material for the students and teachers to get into. There is a lot of material on fitness and healthy eating, finding material that is useful and will engage a student in year 7 is a little trickier. As laid out in the syllabus for year 7 there is a lot of ground to cover the aim below is to provide a variety of resources that can be used to form a engaging fitness and nutrition plan. I have broken it up into fitness and nutrition sections for ease of reading but by no means are these two topics separate, in fact the two are very much intertwined and one out of balance with the other will reduce the effectiveness of both.

__ Fitness: __
Fitness and physical heath are an important part of education as per the national curriculum and also as recommended by the [|World Health Organisation]. The World Health Organisations website has a multitude of very informative and interesting documents and links that would help form an engaging lesson plan for any teacher. Children's fitness and exercise programs are an important part of the curriculum, with programs such as [|Digestive System] for the interactive whiteboard, which shows the digestive system and asks students to label the different parts of the digestive tract. The website [] also features many other pages detailing the organs and functions of the human body with videos, interactive games and puzzles. A student fitness program would also require an active section in the class room plan with training in sports and activities to increase fitness and maintain a healthy life. Videos from You Tube such as Kids Fitness Boot Camp //below// could help students understand exercises or they could gain impetus from others videos and create there own. media type="youtube" key="hHHNrG0xHFo" height="315" width="420"

__ Nutrition: __
Nutrition is a major part of any health and fitness program be it at home or school education in nutrition is vital for a childs wellbeing and future health. Interactive activities such as [|Rainbow Supermarket] where a student can learn about healthy choices whilst shopping and how to read nutrition information labeling go a long way to adding to a students knowledge base. Another interactive program [|8700 Kj] shows a student a range of seemingly healthy foods and then gets them to guess what the food equates to in Kilo joules, the answers can be quite surprising and also educates in other curriculum fields. There are a lot of websites setup to teach children about nutrition, the [|Healthy Food and Drink Portal] setup by the Western Australian Education Department provides information for schools, students and teachers and is a great resource. It has an abundance of downloadable documents that can be an asset in the classroom with the guild lines provided by the portal and a [|Crunch and Sip] program a good start to a nutrition education program can be started.

Other websites that could add to a nutrition education program are [|Kitchen Gardens] which provides information to setup a school food garden, that with [|Gardening Australia - Fact Sheets] can help you grow a garden that will flourish in your particular climate and educate students in the benefits of both nutritional and physical aspects of healthy eating and exercise.

Movies on nutrition are a great way of educating students through entertainment Pyramid Power vs the Junk Food Bandits seen below is a series of animated shorts detailing the downsides of unhealthy eating vs the benefits of healthy eating and exercise. media type="youtube" key="vAqZ5yxgTp0" height="315" width="560"

Another medium worth looking into is a [|Student Fitness Forum], although open to the general public and thus the wider community a well supervised class could gain a lot by posting questions and receiving answers from people that are more experienced and willing to share their knowledge in nutrition and fitness.


 * References:**

World Health Organisation - Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

NEOK12 - Educational Videos, Lessons and Games, Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

Kids Fitness Boot Camp. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

Rainbow Supermarket interactive virtual grocery store. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

8700 - Interactive food planning tool. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

Western Australian Education Department Portal. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

Department of Health Western Australia. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

Education Department of New South Wales. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

ABC television Australia - Gardening Australia. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

Nourish Interactive - Pyramid Power vs the Junk Food Bandits. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []

The Student Room - Fitness. Retrieved 18/05/2012 from: []