MyActivity Pyramid

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MyActivity Pyramid

• Karen Sherbondy, RD, LD
• FNEP Special Projects Coordinator
• August 4, 2006

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Grade 1 Fun With Food and Fitness

• Introduce MyActivity Pyramid

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Grade 1 Fun With Food and Fitness

• Use MyActivity Pyramid poster and handout
• Do not use MyActivity Log

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Grade 1 Fun With Food and Fitness

• Focus in Grade 1
• Expose kids to the graphic
• Get kids to start thinking about physical
  activity and ways to be active

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Grade 1 Fun With Food and Fitness

• Use poster with lessons
• Help children associate having fun moving our
  bodies in a variety of ways each day

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Grade 1 Fun With Food and Fitness

• There really are no physical activity
  "activities" in grade 1
• Tie in with other concepts introduced in
  curriculum related to physical activity

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Grade 1 Fun With Food and Fitness

• Tip of MyActivity Pyramid
• Tie in inactivity
• Lesson 4 Programs and Commercials

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Use MyActivity Pyramid poster and handout

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Introduce these concepts
• Need to be physically active at least 60
  minutes each day
• Tracking physical activity time

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Introduce the MyActivity Log

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Children may need the help of parent or teacher
  to fill out log

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Emphasize
• Tracking or logging how much time children spend
  doing activity

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Dont focus on the actual numbers they enter
• Children will probably overestimate

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Make connection that many of the physical
  activities done in Lessons 1-7 can be included in
  MyActivity Log

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Tip of MyActivity Pyramid
• Tie in inactivity
• Lesson 4 I Spy Advertising

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Lesson 6- Body image lesson
• Having fun moving our bodies helps us look and
  feel our best

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Grade 2 Building MyPyramid

• Encourage teacher to use log with students after
  NPA leaves the classroom

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Questions and Answers