Note
These information resources are not meant to be a substitute for advice provided by a qualified healthcare professional. If you have questions or need assistance in making health decisions, please consult with a doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare professional.
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Other Recommended Websites
- BAM! Body and MindCombination exercise, nutrition, and more web site created by U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- GirlsHealth.govOffice on Women’s Health, HHS
- Kids Environment | Kids HealthHealth, science, and environment information, games, songs, stories, activities, experiments, etc.
Books (activity, coloring, novels, etc.)
Clinics & Hospitals
- Adventure Series Color BookColoring books about radiology procedures (CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT)
- Clinical Center Patient Coloring Book (National Institutes of Health)choose appropriate pages to download
Diabetes
- Eagle Books for Early ReadersDiabetes prevention through physical activity and nutrition books, videos, podcasts, and coloring books for American Indian students
- Eagle Books & Graphic Novels for YouthDiabetes prevention through physical activity and nutrition novels and graphic novels for American Indian students
Diet & Nutrition
- Eagle Books for Early ReadersDiabetes prevention through physical activity and nutrition books, videos, podcasts, and coloring books for American Indian students
- Express Your Health: Activity Book for Kidsactivities and coloring
- Milk Matters with Buddy Brushcoloring book
Emergencies
- Mickey & Friends Disaster Preparedness Activity BookDisney and American Red Cross activity book
- Ready Wrigley Activities (Apple iOS app)
Storybook, coloring book, and activities to teach children how to stay safe during emergencies. Adaptation of the Ready Wrigley activity book series - Ready Wrigley BooksReady Wrigley Preparedness Pup activity books cover winter weather, extreme heat, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.
Exercise & Physical Activity
- Eagle Books for Early ReadersDiabetes prevention through physical activity and nutrition books, videos, podcasts, and coloring books for American Indian students
- Eagle Books & Graphic Novels for YouthDiabetes prevention through physical activity and nutrition novels and graphic novels for American Indian students
- Express Your Health: Activity Book for Kidsactivities and coloring
Public Health
- Are You a Flu Fighter?coloring book, Spanish version also available
- The Junior Disease Detectives: Operation Outbreak
Free graphic novel available in 4 versions: Web PDF; Home Print PDF; Professional Print PDF; iBook download
; - The Latest Greatest Coloring Book about Lice
Arabic version also available
Safety
- Express Your Health: Activity Book for Kidsactivities and coloring
- Mosquito Bites are Bad! (U.S. areas with no zika)zika activity and coloring book, also available in Spanish
- Spread the Word About Handwashing and Not the Germcoloring pages and book
- Skeeter BeatersColoring and activity book about controlling mosquitoes. Spanish version also available.
Games
Android
- CDC BAM! Dining Decisions
Decide which foods give you more energy and powerful muscles and which ones are better to eat only sometimes - CDC Health IQ (Google Android app)
Game includes health trivia questions and word scrambles with easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels. - Monster Guard
American Red Cross game showing how to prepare for emergencies and stay safe during emergencies - Zap-a-'quito
Information about where mosquitos breed and how to stop this, as well as other facts about mosquitoes and diseases they can carry
Apple
- BAM Dining Decisions
Decide which foods give you more energy and powerful muscles and which ones are better to eat only sometimes - CDC Health IQ (Apple iOS app)Game includes health trivia questions and word scrambles with easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.
- Monster GuardAmerican Red Cross game showing how to prepare for emergencies and stay safe during emergencies.
- Run4Green
Environmental conservation game includes greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy and green product purchases - TOXinvaders
Chemicals and the environment game
Online
- Dining Decision GameDecide which foods give you more energy and powerful muscles and which ones are better to eat only sometimes
- Kids Environment | Kids HealthHealth, science, and environment information, games, songs, stories, activities, experiments, etc.
Videos
- Finding Your Roots – The Seedlings: EpisodesVideos of young scientists exploring genetics, genealogy, and anthropology topics
Questions?
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Sara Westall MLS
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Northwest Campus - Minot:
Janet Anderson, MLIS
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Southeast Campus - Fargo:
Sara Westall MLS
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Southwest Campus - Bismarck:
Sandi L. Bates, MLIS
701.751.6767