Being Active

Hancock County Cooperative Extension Expanded Food Nutrition Assistant (EFNEP) partnered with North Hancock Elementary schools PE teacher.  Not only would this be a class to teach about eating healthy snacks and meals, but what better class to discuss being physically active in.  The class began with taking the entry survey and only 68% of the class answered well on the question, circle the kids being physically active.  

Once that was done, we jumped right in and worked on learning about healthy ways of eating.   Once the class got to work on the physically active part of the lesson, we discussed what the difference between, doing something, and being physically active.  The first graders were confused. EFNEP explained how we can be doing something such as, watching TV, playing on the computer, reading a book, but we weren’t moving our body, it's not being physically active.

Once they understood the class started making suggestions about how to be physically active, such as if you did push up’s while watching TV or walked in place while reading the book.   EFNEP taught about all kind of options to get the heart rate up.  Making sure the kids knew lots of ways to be active a small wheel was brought in, that had pictures of different ways of being active, and each child took a turn spinning it.  We all did each activity together.  EFNEP wanted to make sure the children knew ways of being active inside, in case they can’t go outside. While teaching this program EFNEP made sure that the students knew they needed to be physically active at least one hour every day to help stay healthy, along with making healthy food choices.

Once the program was done, the children took the exit survey, 95% got the question, circle the kids being active, correct!