Help Prevent Food Waste USDA’s Team Nutrition initiative is pleased to announce the availability of a slightly revised “What You Can Do to Prevent Food Waste” booklet for school meal programs. Team Nutrition has updated this publication to include new tips and resource links. School nutrition professionals, parents, students, teachers, and school administrators [...]
Equity Matters: Recess Equity matters in public education. When you do some searching you’ll find that there is a disparity between wealthy and low-income public schools who receive recess. According to the Center for Public Education, the more low-income a school the less recess they are likely to have. This statistic is both sad and [...]
School Recess -Recess Advocacy Whereas, Children’s physical fitness and children’s engagement in physical activity are associated with greater academic achievement and cognitive functioning; andWhereas, Elementary school children who have more recess time have been found to have better classroom behavior; and Whereas, Recess is important for children’s socialization, school adjustment, and overall social development; and [...]
What does moderate to vigorous physical activity mean for kids? Philly.com by Rachel DeHaven, Physical Activity Specialist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Simply put, moderate and vigorous are terms to explain how hard your body is working when doing that particular activity. Exercise physiologists measure activity in metabolic equivalents or METS. One MET is defined as [...]
Articles on Improving Recess Improving Recess The 2014 School Health Policies and Practices Study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 82.8 percent of elementary schools provided a daily recess for all grades indoors, while fewer than two-thirds of middle schools and only 26.5 percent of high [...]
Listing of play articles most current articles on the top. How Play Fits Into Social and Emotional Learning. All of Chicago Public Schools are seeing big gains by allowing students to play. By Jill Vialet Playworks Founder The Critical Place of Play in Education. U.S. Play Coalition Document. This document is on Play in [...]
The Second Step E newsletter contained a great article on "Safer Playgrounds: Assessing Layout, Supervision, and Staff Training." The article covers tips and research on the physical environment on playgrounds and playground supervision. For additional information go to the Committee for Children website.
Active Design Resources These active design resources will help you to design more physical activity into an everyday environment. Download toolkits and resources today.Active Design is using spaces like the asphalt and grass (which most schools have) to design activities where children can be active. This page is dedicated to resources that will help [...]
By Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, The Recess Doctor This is a list of 10 suggestions for making your playground a peaceful place for fun and games. Have classroom teachers walk students around the playground on the first day of school. Introduce playing areas and those areas that are off limit during recess. Introduce students to playground rules and [...]
Physical Activity and Academic Achievement The evidence surrounding the link between physical activity, physical fitness and academics is growing stronger and more abundant. This page of articles, research students and information on the brain and academic improvements serves to document this connect. Catherine Davis - Georgia Regents University Speaking [...]
This listing of Physical Activity resources for classroom teachers, P.E. teachers and physical activity coordinators have moved to our member site. Featured Articles Physical Activity in Schools. Making the Case for Kids Moving More Low Cost High Activity Playgrounds
Playground Safety Resources CPSC Fact Sheet Burn Risk on Playgrounds - Hot summer months and hot metal slides pose a health and burn risk to children. How safe is your playgrounds? Use the Playground Safety Checklist to find out. Public Playground Safety Handbook [...]
School Playground Problems and Solutions Identified Peaceful Playgrounds Recess Program is built around research which identifies 5 things that go wrong on a typical school playground and 5 solutions to those problems. [jwplayer config="big" mediaid="3722"] To learn more about Peaceful Playgrounds Recess Program , visit our recess program information page, or visit the media page of [...]
US Map Stencil Games Book The US Map Stencil book has 20 new games to encourage outdoor learning activities. Games Include: Capitol Toss, State Word Search, East to West, Capitol Match, Capitol Spelling Challenge, Hands Across America, Exercise By Number, State Relay, Knock Off, State Abbreviation Relay, State Shake Walk, Guess and Travel, Where I’ve [...]
Download Your Free Right to Recess Tool Kit ! Don't forget to visit our Right to Recess Webpage for more ideas and tools on saving recess. [contact-form-7 id="5420" title="Right to Recess Campaign Tool Kit"]
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