Publisher: VendorNation.com Age: 3 - 8 Runs Under: WIN / MAC Packaging: Jewel Case Item # 80560 Home Edition Our Price: $29.95 Item # 80561 School Edition Site License Up to 30 Users Our Price: $699.95 (More Elementary Learning Software)

Teaches the importance of eating healthfully and staying active!

Product Information

The first Healthy Eating & Exercise CD that allows parents, nutritionists and educators to teach young children, ages 3 - 8, about the benefits of eating and living more healthfully. Each of the 8 NoteNiks.Net Healthy Eating CD games teaches young children the importance of eating healthfully and staying active.

The games have been reviewed and approved by nutritionists, educators, and parents to meet the highest educational standards. Perhaps our greatest seal of approval has come from the kids themselves who, through playing the games, have learned that eating a piece of fruit is just as tasty as eating a donut… and better for them!

Teaches Children:

• To distinguish healthy food from unhealthy food.
• To identify exercise activities.
• To select healthy snack foods and drinks.
• To make healthy food, and activity, selections a regular habit.

Pick Your Fruits and Veggies:

This game introduces children to a variety of fruits and vegetables. It visually distinguishes fruits or vegetables from other foods. By clicking and dragging fruits and vegetables onto a plate, a child actively learns that choosing to eat fruits and vegetables is a good thing.

Children are rewarded musically and visually at the end of the game, and are encouraged to eat more healthfully with prompts.

Lets Go Bananas!

This game teaches short-term memory skills and helps identify a variety of fruits and vegetables. Additionally, the benefits of matching games are known to increase a child’s patience, and improve visual processing skills.

Children are rewarded at the end of the game with music and praise. They are also encouraged to try new fruits and vegetables with fun facts.

Fruit Hunt!

Using the arrow keys, children sharpen their fine motor skills while moving Cory around the Fruit Hunt maze.

Children learn to select fruits and vegetables while avoiding other foods. At the end of the game a child is rewarded with a high score and positive facts about eating lesser-known fruits.

Fruit Volcano:

This game strengthens hand/eye coordination as kids try to catch the healthy fruit and avoid the junk food. At the end of the game a child is rewarded with a high score and a few facts about the benefits of eating fruit.

Puzzle Place:

Puzzles are brain food for kids. Concentration and practicing eye-hand coordination lay the foundation children need for reading and problem-solving skills.

Additionally, children are exposed to alternative ways to stay active: jumping rope, playing catch, and swinging on monkey bars. Children are commended at the end of each completed puzzle with encouragement to keep active.

Shadow Matcher:

This game encourages a child to stay physically active and offers a variety of activities to stay fit like playing Frisbee, biking, dancing, gymnastics, and playing tag.

In addition, the Shadow Matcher game teaches visual perception and shape recognition skills. At the end of the game, a child is rewarded with a high score and facts about the benefits of being physically active.

NoteNiks Market:

The supermarket sets the stage for good food choices. Children are asked to distinguish healthy foods from unhealthy foods and are rewarded with a high score for making correct food choices.

Children’s eye-hand coordination will be flexed in using this game. At the end of the game, a child is rewarded with a high score and information about making wise food choices when shopping in the supermarket.

Activity Alley:

Children are asked to identify items needed to grow a vegetable garden, ride a bike, go skateboarding, and play baseball. With facts are offered at the end of the game.

These tips help kids become familiar with the concept of needing certain tools to perform a given task.

Additionally, it reinforces safe play, gives incentive to grow one's own garden or take up a new sport, and is a precursor to higher levels of object recognition and grouping strategies. The various scenarios also strengthen a child's general understanding of part-to-whole relationships.

Supplimental Curiculum:

The statistics on pediatric obesity are staggering: More than 9 million children and teens are overweight (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey); Childhood obesity is responsible for 50 % of new cases of pediatric diabetes, sleep apnea, and asthma (US Government Report); and 300,000 deaths are associated each year with obesity, (U.S. Surgeon General’s Office).

Goals: The attached curriculum, in association with the NoteNiks Healthy Eating & Exercise CD Rom, will introduce children to what healthy eating habits look like, identify unhealthy and “junk foods,” and encourage eating a greater variety of fruits and vegetables.

Mechanics: We welcome teachers and health educators to download the attached curriculum presentations on Healthy Eating and Nutrition. Associated with the presentations are fun and educational activity pages you can also download, copy, and hand out to your students.

Reviews:

School isn't all fun and games, but it’s starting to move in that direction. As computer and online gaming has dominated youth culture, it was inevitable that the technology would penetrate the educational system."
       ~ TheJournal.com : by Patricia Deubel

Dr.Toy Award Winner:   The NoteNiks Healthy Eating & Exercise CD-ROM, has been selected as a recipient of the Institute for Childhood Resources Dr. Toy Smart Play/Smart Toy Product of Excellence Award for 2006. “This is a CD-ROM that will get your child excited about eating healthy,”
       ~ Dr. Toy.

“{The NoteNiks Healthy Eating & Exercise CD} provides an interactive environment in which to learn about good eating habits and exercise. Sometimes kids are more receptive to learning important messages when cartoon characters in a computer game setting delivers them.”
      ~ USA Today

"As an eating disorders professional, I have watched with dismay as junk food takes over the American diet and even invades our schools, threatening the health of our children. The NoteNIks Healthy Eating CD is the most encouraging, creative, and positive antidote I have seen. Every parent should be delighted with this fun-filled game that sets children on the right track for a healthy life."
      ~ Linda Riebel, Ph. D.

“Parents and grandparents often wonder how they can get the kids in their lives to eat right and not plant themselves in front of the TV or computer playing video games or listening to CDs. But this particular CD may just solve their problem.”
      ~ Nubella News

“The NoteNiks Healthy Eating & Exercise CD delivers 8 simple games with ‘cutting edge graphics,’ that teaches kids how to distinguish healthy foods from junk, and how to stay physically active. I think this is a great idea.”
      ~ Tyler Knott Gregson, FitExpressBlog.com

Windows Requirements

• Windows 9x, or better
• 130Mb of HD space
• 128Mb RAM, or better
• CD-ROM player

Macintosh Requirements

• Mac OS X, or better
• 130Mb of HD space
• 128Mb RAM, or better
• CD-ROM player

*CDs are hybrid (mac/pc)