Sports and Recreation
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Description: This publication provides simple tips for keeping active children hydrated when playing youth sports.
Description: The Women's Sports Foundation is a charitable educational organization dedicated to ensuring equal access to participation and leadership opportunities for all girls and women in sports and fitness. The site provides resources and information regarding women in sports and fitness.
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Description: A NIDA website which provides information and resources related to steroids.
Description: ATHENA (Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise and Nutrition Alternatives) is a peer education program for female athletes. The goal of the program is to reduce disordered eating and drug use among female athletes. The program promotes healthy eating and strength training.
Go Ask Alice: Fitness & Nutrition
Description: A collection of Questions & Answers for youth about fitness, optimal nutrition, food choices and health, eating disorders and other related topics.
Healthy Youth!: Physical Activity
Description: Information and resources about the importance of physical activity for youth.
Performance Enhancing Substances Can Ruin Your Life 
Description: This website contains a variety of information and resources related to performance enhancing substances.
Sports Nutrition for Young Adults: Protein
Author: Keith, Robert (3 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet about nutrition for young adults involved in sports.
Taylor Hooton Foundation: Fighting Steroids Abuse
Description: This website provides information about the dangers of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.
The Foundation for Global Sports Development
Description: The foundation works to promote sportsmanship, education, fair play, and ethics among the world’s youth.
The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
Description: This website has information and resources about exercise and activities for people with various disabilities and conditions.
Description: This website provides information about prohibited products for use in sports as well as an interactive web site for kids and publications about healthy diets and ethics in sports.
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Natural Spaces: A place for positive youth development webinar
Author: Meyer, Rebecca
Description: Research suggests that involving youth with nature can positively impact their health, well-being, sense of place and community. This webinar will explore the role of natural space and how to utilize it for effective positive youth development; it will include a focus on creating positive development experiences with nature during out of school time. Interactions in and with nature are instinctive for children and youth, and provide a strong foundation for supporting nature-engaged families. Participants will overview relevant research and explore strategies for nature-related youth programming.
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Exergames: A New Look at Physical Fitness
Author: Wittman, (1 more by this author); Maureen Toomey; Mauri Knott ; Veronica Gilbert
Description: Grace Wittman, Veronica Gilbert, Mauri Knott and Maureen Toomey, University of Idaho
The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid recommend that children get 60 minutes of moderate level exercise each day. New data indicate that exergames can be used as an option for youth to attain a moderate level of exercise. Learn how to incorporate exergames into after-school programs at a group level or the individual level.
Mission of the Month: CYFERnet Travel Bug Race
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: Would you like to explore the planet vicariously and win a prize as well? Then don’t miss the annual CYFERnet Travel Bug Race. In September, Youth and adult teams can start touring the globe via their Travel Bug: a metal tag that allows contestants to follow their “hitchhiker” trinket. Your hitchhiker can serve as a virtual you — make a club mascot and attach it to the Travel Bug for a more personalized experience. Hitchhikers are a staple of geocaching—the Global Positioning System (GPS)-based adventure game. In geocaching, contestants place their trinkets into official geocaches anywhere in the world, register their Travel Bugs online and track them as other geochachers move them from cache to cache in the real world. The more miles your bug travels, the higher your score in the CYFERnet Travel Bug Race. Read on to learn more.
Description: Set includes Outdoor Adventures 1-3 and the Helper's Guides
Outdoor Navigation with Map & Compass
Author: Munn, John
Description: An online leader's guide and curriculum for group instruction of outdoor navigation skills, with exercises and games that help make map and compass training a fun and sporting experience.
Sports Nutrition for Young Adults: Carbohydrates
Author: Keith, Robert (3 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet about nutrition for young adults involved in sports.
Sports Nutrition for Young Adults: Eating Before and Between Athletic Events
Author: Keith, Robert (3 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet about nutrition for young adults involved in sports.
Sports Nutrition for Young Adults: Hydration
Author: Keith, Robert (3 more by this author); Leslie Wade
Description: A fact sheet about the importance of hydration for young adults involved in sports.
The Climb: Mastering Self and Aconcagua
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author); Jay Staker
Description: Steve Brown climbs Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas. Activities support youth planning and training for an outdoor expedition, and the physical realities of such treks. Includes background information and reflection questions on mountaineering traditions, health and measurement.
Author: NMSU Learning Games Lab, (1 more by this author)
Description: Treadsylvania is a fun, engaging Web-based interactive game, designed to help learners ages 8-18 understand how to ride All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) safely via a visually appealing adventure game that can be played in short bouts (less than an hour). This game helps youth understand: Why helmets and safety gear are essential when riding, Why you can only have one rider on an ATV, How being “rider active” (using your balance and position to steer and control your ATV) works, Why ATVs shouldn’t be ridden on asphalt or , and What kinds of trail you can ride on and which you should avoid. It is a game that feels like an adventure game and appeals to a wide range of players, particularly those players who may not think they are likely to ever ride an ATV, but may do so anyway. Even more importantly, the player had to really understand the reasons behind safety recommendations, so if they didn’t remember the “tips and suggestions”, they would get on an ATV and understand for themselves the safety risks.