Schools

Creating Healthy Schools

1500

Used computers > 3 hours per day- 24.9%

Watched TV > 3 hours per day- 32.8%

Did not participate in at least 60 minutes of activity in one week- 23.1%

Source: CDC YRBSS 1991-2009

900

7:30 a.m.

Walk to School

Encouraging Active Travel to School

8 a.m.

School Breakfast

• Breakfast in the classroom

• Breakfast after 1st period

• Grab ‘n’ Go breakfast

• Cafeteria style

10 a.m.

Active Recess

http://www.peacefulplaygrounds.com/

STRATTON, G., & MULLAN, E. (2005).

10:30 a.m.

Healthy Snack

Snack Switches Hands on Nutrition Activities

11:30 a.m.Recess before Lunch

12 p.m.

Healthy, Sustainable

Lunch

Fresh Farm to School Lunches

1 p.m.

Standard Based Health Education

Social Studies Application

Mexico: $189.09 per week

North Carolina: $341.98 week

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio www.menzelphoto.com.

2 p.m.

Take 10!

http://www.ecu.edu/cs-hhp/exss/upload/Energizers_for_Grades_K_2.pdf

“I like exercising,” he said. “It make as you healthier. It relaxes you, and it also gets your attention—wakes you up. You get to have fun.”

“It’s more than just fun, it has helped with discipline.” Sharon DiGirolamo, assistant principal at John M. Clayton Elementary School.

3:30 p.m.

Physical Activity after School

Source: http://www.kevalaliving.com.au/images/image/KidsTreePose

Barry Elementary in Yuba City, CA Source: http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/node/211

Coordinated School Health (CSH) Model

Goals:1) Coordinate health

care and resources2) CSH helps school

identify health needs and plan for healthy schools

3) Include students, staff, families and communities.

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