Small steps make a big difference!

Walk to School Week 201221st to 25th May

One in five cars on the road in the

morning is

doing the school run.

The average walk to school takes about 25-30

minutes, which is half of the recommended daily

amount of moderate physical activity for

children.

Girls should try to take 12,000 steps a day and

boys 15,000. If you walked from Lands End to

John O’Groats, you would take about 2 million

(2,000,000) steps.

If you walk for 10 minutes you burn off about

15 calories.

There are 270 calories in a mars bar.

If you walk to school once a week, instead of

travelling by car, you’ll save, on average, 30

balloons of carbon dioxide, the gas that is

damaging our planet

Question 1:100 Strider Points

A: One in three

C: One in ten D: One in fifteen

B: One in fiveB: One in five

How many cars on the road in the morning are

doing the school run?

Question 2:100 Strider Points

A: 10% (One tenth)

D: 75% (Three quarters

B: 25% (one quarter)

The average walk to school is 1.5 miles, which takes about 30

minutes. Children need 60 minutes of physical activity

a day. If you walk to school, what percentage/ fraction of your

physical activity would you have done?

C: 50% (one half)C: 50% (one half)

Question 3: 100 Strider Points

Roughly how many steps is it from Lands End to John O’Groats?

A: 2 million steps

C: 500 steps D: 25 steps

B: 10,000 stepsA: 2 million steps

Introducing StriderQuestion 4: 100 Strider Points

A: 30 minutes

C: Two hours D: Three hours

B: One hour

D: Three hours

A 10 minute walk burns off 15 calories. Roughly how long would you have to walk to burn

off a Mars bar?

Question 5:100 Strider Points

How many balloons full of carbon dioxide, the gas that is

damaging our planet, do you think you would save if you walked

to school once a week, instead of going by car?

A: 5 balloons

C: 30 balloons D: 60 balloons

B: 10 balloons

C: 30 balloons

Question 6:100 Strider Points

If 30 children walked to school, instead of going by car,

how many balloons of carbon dioxide would they save?

A: 900 balloons

C: 500 balloons D: 90 balloons

B: 1500 balloonsA: 900 balloons

Question 7:100 Strider Points

A: 10 million balloons

C: 50 thousand million balloons D: 16 thousand million balloons

B: Half a million balloons

If every child in the UK walked to school at least once a week,

we could save 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

How many balloons do you think this would fill?

D: 16 thousand million balloons

Wow- Walking certainly makes a difference!

Congratulations- you now know how small

steps can make a big difference!