This is a great site which uses videos and an online interactive game to teach nutrition and health education to children in grades 4 through 8. The free 14-day trial allows user to sample one 40-minute video and one level of the online game. With purchase, users can access six videos, all levels of game play, the online community where students earn badges for sharing videos, photos, and recipes, activity materials, and assessment tool. The video actors look, speak, and act in an age appropriate fashion and present important topics in a relatable way. For example, the sample video demonstrates why it is important to eat a good breakfast by first presenting a scene about a student skipping meals to make weight for a wrestling competition. The story incorporates rap music and comedy to teach students what happens when you deprive your body of food. There is a cooking demonstration for a healthy, easy-to-make breakfast, exercise video with a professional athlete, and time to pause for discussion questions and guided activity. The interactive game has six levels for subscribers where users walk around a virtual school and make decisions and learn about nutrition. Parents should be aware of the system requirements for the game and that it is necessary to download software for play. Overall, this site is a fun way for middle school students to learn important information about diet and nutrition.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Attention
• Has auditory distractions that cannot be silenced (background music, players shout answers, etc.)
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Auditory Processing
• Has auditory distractions that cannot be silenced (background music, players shout answers, etc.)
• Listening Comprehension
• Has auditory distractions that cannot be silenced (background music, players shout answers, etc.)
• Verbal Memory
• Visual Discrimination
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects