Five ways to get kids moving.

Five ways to get kids moving. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Do the kids in your district need to increase their activitylevels? Here are five creative ways to get them moving: * Encourage teachers to include physical activities for students ofall abilities in learning exercises, like nature walks and outdoorscavenger hunts scavenger huntn.A game in which individuals or teams try to locate and bring back miscellaneous items on a list. . * Add a couple of 10 minute movement breaks during the day. * Plan school-wide activity fundraisers such as walk-a-thons aroundthe school property. * Get the community involved with family fitness events like familynights at the local Y or community center and fun days at a local park. * Schedule recess before lunch to allow more time for play. Resources Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK AFHK Action For Healthy Kids ) www.actionforhealthykids.org Action for Healthy Kids is an integrated, national-state effort tochange the school environment. This site includes tools and resources. Alliance for a Healthier Generation www.healthiergeneration.org Provides resources and grant opportunities to help schoolsimplement healthy changes to promote physical activity and healthyeating. CATCH www.catchinfo.org The CATCH Go for Health Curriculum and CATCH Physical EducationActivity teach children to identify, practice and adopt healthy eatingand physical activity habits for a lifetime. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. (CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation ) www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dasnutrition/guidelines/index.htm www.cdc.gov/Health Youth index.htm, htt://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/shi/ Guidelines guidelines,n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for School Health Programs to Promote Lifelong HealthyEating identifies the strategies most likely to be effective inpromoting lifelong healthy eating to young people. Healthy Youth!includes links to school health tools and information. The School HealthIndex can be adapted to meet district needs. National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity Model School WellnessPolicies http://www.schoolwellnesspolicies.org A set of model policies for local school districts, developed byhealth, physical activity, nutrition, and education professionals. SPARK PE www.sparkpe.org SPARK focuses on improving the mental and physical health ofchildren and adolescents by providing research-proven curricula,training, and follow-up support to schools and organizations worldwide. USDA USDA,n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. Team Nutrition www.fns.usda.gov/tn/ Team Nutrition was designed to help make implementation of healthyeating policies in schools more successful. BY JANE CLARK, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Department ofKinesiology kinesiologyStudy of the mechanics and anatomy of human movement and their roles in promoting health and reducing disease. Kinesiology has direct applications to fitness and health, including developing exercise programs for people with and without disabilities, preserving , University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to: University of Maryland, College Park, a research-extensive and flagship university; when the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to this school