Make Movement a Part of Your Day

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Make Movement a Part of Your Day

• Physical Activity
• Webinar

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Factors of Childhood Obesity

• Lack of physical activity
• Lack of healthy eating habits
• Environmental influences within schools,
  communities, and homes

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What is Physical Activity

• According to synthesis of research and a
  consensus of experts, physical activity is
• Bodily movement that is produced by the
  contraction of skeletal muscle and that increases
  energy expenditure.

US Surgeon General Report on Physical Activity
Health, 1996.
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What is Exercise

• Exercise is defined as
• Planned, structured, and repetitive bodily
  movement done to improve or maintain one or more
  components of fitness.

US Surgeon General Report on Physical Activity
Health, 1996.
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How Active Should Young People Be?

• Currently, the recommendation that is consistent
  across numerous leading scientific organizations
  
• Among 6-19 year olds, 60 minutes of moderate to
  vigorous physical activity on most, if not all,
  days of the week

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Benefits of Physical Activity During the School
Day

• Benefits on the behavioral and cognitive
  functioning of youth.
• Across studies, increased time for physical
  education does not impact achievement in other
  subjects.
• Recess before lunch means less food waste
• Integration of classroom PA breaks might improve
  on-task behavior during academic instruction.

Sources Tomporowski PD. Cognitive and behavioral
responses to acute exercise in youths a review.
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al. Effect of physical education and activity
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of classroom-based program on physical activity
and on-task behavior. Med Sci Sprts Exer. 2006.
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Ways to Integrate PA

• Use a prepared fitness break
• Just A Minute (JAM)
• http//www.healthetips.com/jam-program.php
• Use as part of the classroom curriculum and use
  them multiple times throughout the school day
• PE teachers can use as a supplement , or as a
  warm up to their regular programs
• Combine several weeks to create a whole new
  fitness routine
• Use as a part of morning announcement and as a
  kick-off to a school assembly
• Students can lead their classmates as part of
  their class duties

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Ways to Integrate PA

• Fitness Alarms
• Choose a time during the day where everyone is
  active
• Create School Goals/Competitions
• PA Opportunities Before or After School

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Ways to Integrate PA

• Implement a thematic approach
• Coordinate movement activities with content
• Use North Carolina Energizers
• http//www.ncpe4me.com/energizers.html
• Use Michigan Brain Breaks
• http//www.emc.cmich.edu/brainbreaks/
• Take 10!
• http//www.take10.net/whatistake10.asp?pagenew

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Ways to Integrate PA

• Teacher Toolbox
• http//www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template
  teacher_toolbox_sep07.html

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Safe Routes to School

• Promote walking and bicycling to school
• School leaders should work with local governments
  to ensure that students have safe routes for
  walking and bicycling to school
• Nation Center for Safe Routes to School
• http//www.saferoutesinfo.org/

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Elementary Physical Activity

• Recess
• Rescuing Recess
• http//www.cartoonrecessweek.com/
• Recess Before Lunch
• http//www.opi.mt.gov/schoolfood/recessBL.html

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Secondary Physical Activity

• Expand physical activity opportunities by
  providing clubs, lessons, intramural sports, and
  interscholastic sports programs that meet the
  physical activity needs and interests of all
  students
• Teens exercise habits are influenced by a number
  of factors, including social norms, personal
  abilities and motivations, and family exercise
  habits and support
• Create a student committee to explore what types
  of PA could be incorporated into the school day

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Secondary Physical Activity

• Create a positive physical activity environment
• During core classes, employ walk talks
• Assist adolescents in setting and working toward
  a specific behavior-change goal

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Success Stories

• Veterans Memorial Middle School in Blue Island,
  Illinois
• Fitness Friday - physical activity during the
  last half hour of the day
• Walking club and a running club that meet twice
  weekly
• Weekly intramural sports for each grade level
• Yoga class

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Success Stories

• Arthur Eddy Academy - Saginaw, Michigan
• Boosting Activity program
• Students encouraged to track their physical
  activity every day
• Students receive pedometers at the beginning of
  the school day, record their daily steps and
  return the pedometers before leaving campus
• The school has also added 15 minutes of daily
  in-class exercise, in addition to its weekly
  one-hour physical education class.

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Contact Information
Lisa Perry National PE/PA Manager PO Box
413 Kremmling, CO 80459 970-724-0088
office lisa.perry_at_healthiergeneration.org