Active Living—Week 5
Lesson Overview:
Students establish active control over healthy behavior and activity choices.
Lesson Objectives:
Establish the importance of spending less time in front of a screen, and set goals for more time being active.
Lesson Activities:
Lesson Plan:
A. Discuss national viewing statistics 15 minutes
B. Estimate viewing habits and distribute screen time log 10 minutes
C. Selection of individual goals 10 minutes
E. Poster design 20 minutes
55 minutes
Challenge 3
Among friends, how can you be an influence for positive peer-pressure? Consider a one-two day analysis of a friend’s diet and physical fitness activities. How can you partner with them to support an improved diet or increased physical fitness activities? Or, can you suggest modifications to diet/fitness?
*This is a take-home activity, or if time
permits, they can analyze someone in their group.*
Youth Screen Time
Every day, on average, 8-18 year olds spend:
● Nearly four hours watching TV, videos, DVDs, and prerecorded shows
● Just over one hour on the computer
● About 50 minutes playing video games
● 2/3 of young people have a TV in their bedroom
● 1/2 have a video-game player
● Nearly 1/3 have a computer in their bedroom
● Youth who have TVs in their rooms spend 1 ½ more hours a day watching TV than those without TVs in their rooms
● About half of all 8-18 year olds say their families have no rules about watching TV
● 46% of 8-18 year olds say they do have rules, but only 20% said the rules were enforced “most” of the time
● Youth with TV rules that were enforced most of the time report 2 hours less daily media exposure than in homes without rules that were enforced
Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, March 2005. www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia030905pkg.cfm
Tips to Move More
• Limit your time watching TV or playing video games; even reading a book burns more calories! • Walk around the block. • Dance with friends or family: it can burn 300 calories an hour! • Alternate activities so you don’t get bored; try running, skating, biking—the possibilities are endless! • Hike • Do sit-ups in front of the TV. • Take the stairs. • Walk after lunch. • Walk or bike places (such as school or a friend’s house) •Take a family walk after dinner. • Get a dog and walk it. • Join an exercise group. • Do yard work. • Work around the house. • Take the dog to the park. • Go for a half-hour walk instead of watching TV. • Sit up straight at school. • Wash a car • Clean a bike. • Join a sport. • Choose an activity that fits into your daily life. • Ask a friend to participate in physical activity with you. • Make time in your day for physical activity. • Use an exercise video if the weather is bad. • If you find it difficult to be active after school, try it before work. • Perform gardening or home repair activities. • Avoid labor-saving devices, such as remote controls • Dance to music. • Keep a pair of comfortable walking or running shoes nearby • Make a Saturday morning walk a group habit. • Walk briskly in the mall. • Choose activities you enjoy—you'll be more likely to stick with them. • Explore new physical activities. • Reward and acknowledge your efforts. • Take stairs instead of the escalator. • Swim. • Take your dog on longer walks. • When walking, go up the hills instead of around them. • Buy a set of hand weights.
Adapted from www.smallstep.gov
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/
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Screen Time
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