Check out this interesting and educational web page. It’s made for kids, but I liked it too!
Kaiser Permanente has partnered with Scholastic (the children’s publishing company) to provide a tool to involve and remind children, in a up-to-date way, to eat healthier foods, increase physical activity and decrease their computer and television time.
The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective is a free, online interactive video game. The player becomes a Jr. Detective and gets to pick which case to follow. This gives them the facts about the routines of eight culturally diverse children whose activities or conditions would benefit from exercise and healthy foods. The game is targeted to children aged 9-10 years and is available in English and Spanish. One of the clever parts of the program is, as a reward for solving one of the Amazing Food Detective cases, the Jr. Detective is encouraged to do one of the suggested activities that are labeled “Away from the computer” and helps the JD be more physically activity.
To pass this clever concept even further, Scholastic also has plans to deliver CDs of the game, along with supplementary materials including a teaching guide, wall poster and family resources, to over 5,000 public schools nationwide.
Check it out at: http://members.kaiserpermanente.org/redirects/landingpages/afd/
An old Nancy Drew fan intrigued with the technically advanced adventures,
Alice Lockridge
MS Phys Ed
Pro-fit