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From world-class athletes to people who want to feel healthy, the science of fitness helps many people perform at their best. By using the scientific method to collect data from athletes, scientists are better able to understand how we can stay fit. This data helps athletes push their bodies to new limits and become stronger, faster, and better. By integrating math and literacy skills, this math reader makes learning how to multiply fractions fun...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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You need to eat healthful food to grow up strong. Most of all, you need to eat fruits and vegetables. This book in the Move and Get Healthy! Series will take readers through the basics of nutrition and growing food. Clear instructions, applicable suggestions, and quick tips for making building, planting, and caring for a garden and making healthy food choices will get your students to Move and Get Healthy!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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The My Healthy Habits series provides the earliest of readers a foundation in developing healthy habits. Get Your Exercise explores the importance of being active in a simple, engaging way that will help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Each book in this series includes a table of contents, glossary, index, and an author biography. The My Healthy Habits series provides the earliest of readers a foundation in developing healthy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Being active is a healthy habit. Run! Jump! Play!: Healthy Active Habits will teach readers all about how being active makes them feel good and helps their muscles grow. Running with the dog, sledding down a hill, riding bikes with friends are some of the ways they can stay active. Simple sentences and charming photos engage young children. A comprehensive and critical thinking quiz will make learning fun and effective.
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Get moving! Get thinking! Exercise your body and brain. What things do you do to exercise your body and brain? Engaging photographs paired with simple sentences make it fun to learn about all of the activities children can do to exercise their brain and body. Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards, this book focuses on basic activities that help keep children healthy and strong.
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There are so many reasons to exercise. One of the most important is that exercise helps you lose weight. That helps you feel better about yourself. Exercise also firms up your muscles. You breathe easier. You relax and reduce stress. Exercise takes many forms. Some forms are outdoors, like walking in a park. Other forms are indoors, such as taking a martial arts class. And exercise doesn't just give you a healthier body. It also gives you a better...
8) Exercise
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In Exercise, young readers will learn about the role of exercise in a healthy lifestyle while exploring different ways to have fun while moving. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they explore the world of hiking and biking.
A labeled diagram helps introduce readers to a variety of healthy fitness practices, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about exercise...
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Yoga provides not only an excellent, low-impact workout, it also helps young people in key areas such as body awareness, flexibility, concentration, stress reduction, and self-expression. The exercises and games in this easy-to-follow guide are specifically designed to fit the needs of teenagers and to show teens how to work out and train their bodies in a relaxed way. It requires no advance knowledge or preparation and can be used by anyone working...
10) Exercising
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It's easy to exercise when we make it a habit! We can ride our bikes to school, find a fun new sport, and even take a walk with friends. Approachable text paired with engaging photos makes developing healthy exercise habits fun and approachable for young readers learning early life skills.
11) Yoga Games for Kids: 30 Fun Activities to Encourage Mindfulness, Build Strength, and Create Calm
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Introduce children to the benefits of yoga through play
Yoga is loved the world over for how it can build physical strength, promote mindfulness, and inspire calm. With a variety of engaging exercises, guided poses, and stimulating games, this yoga book for kids teaches young yogis the virtues of yoga through play while helping them build physical strength, flexibility, and balance.
Make yoga for kids fun and easy with:
• Kid-friendly instructions-Simple...
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Mindful movement is a helpful skill for kids who deal with hard feelings. By connecting the mind and body through movement, kids can decrease stress and find their calm. This book introduces early readers to ideas for dealing with hard feelings through movements, such as yoga poses and mindful walking. Accessible language and bright photographs allow early readers to grasp an important coping concept they can use whenever they feel overwhelmed.
13) Healthy Exercise
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There are so many ways to get moving. Going on a run helps keep our heart healthy and strong. Doing push-ups makes our muscles stronger. Exercise helps us live well. A mix of scientific information and fun examples makes it easy to learn how exercise works and the ways it can make us healthier.
14) I Stay Active
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Learning to stay active is a tough job! Carefully leveled text allows the youngest readers to read independently and learn all about staying active.
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This contemporary title explores African dance trends in today s health-oriented world. The teenage reader is exposed to the health and fitness perspective of African dance, African regional differences, dance meanings, and history, and is encouraged to draw conclusions as to the appropriateness of the activity in his or her life. Safety issues are presented where appropriate. African Dance Trends has been developed to encourage teens to analyze the...
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Readers are introduced to the action-packed and fascinating world of kung fu. This book provides a history of the discipline as well as details on the different styles. Step-by-step instructions and accompanying photographs help readers learn the positions and fundamental techniques. As the book progresses, the moves become more and more varied and complex. Formal exercises encourage students to practice what they have learned, keep track of personal...
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Judo is a modern martial art that originated in Japan in 1882 and became an Olympic sport in 1964. This book provides a history of the discipline as well as detailed step-by-step instructions and accompanying photographs to help readers learn the positions and fundamental techniques. Formal exercises encourage students to practice what they have learned, keep track of personal progress, and improve their mastery of the discipline. The book also includes...
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Being active is an important part of healthy living, and there are many ways to do so. Some examples include running, playing sports, or riding a bike. This guide to staying active gives kids the tools they need to form exercise and physical activity into lifelong habits. Full-color photographs illustrate examples of exercise. Age-appropriate language familiarizes readers with each activity. Readers will learn important facts about the benefits of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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The game of football has many rules, and each position on the field is different. Whether lining up in the trenches to protect the quarterback or running the ball out of the backfield, the 11 players on each team each have special jobs to do. This book gives readers a look at each position on the gridiron, showing how cornerbacks and safeties cover wide receivers and how linebackers try to sack the quarterback. With a detailed look at each position,...
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