Use this Walk 'N Roll punch card as an incentive to get kids to walk to school regularly. Each day they walk or bike to school, or on designated walking days, punch one of the spots on the card to log their walking. When they've punched each of the spots on the card, award them with a prize such as a pencil, balloon, ice cream gift certificate, etc. Allow kids who cannot walk to school to earn punches by walking at recess.
Once registered, you will be able to LOG the total kilometers that your students have walked to and from school. These distances will be tracked on the online Walking Tour of Canada map to show the students how far they have walked across Canada. As the accumulated distances reach each provincial/territorial capital, you will be able to download a provincial/territorial PASSPORT to congratulate the students on their success so far.
Welcome to Walk and Bike Across America a web-based interactive game that promotes physical activity. The object of the game is for school classes to accumulate miles by tracking the miles students walk and bike to school. Use those miles to travel around the U.S. visiting as many sites on the map as possible. Each site represents a significant national park, historic site, or key agricultural location with nutritional information, that will broaden the students' knowledge of the United States.
With America On the Move's free tools and online resources, you can encourage your students to develop positive, healthy habits that last a lifetime.
Current research suggests that 13% of American children aged 6-11 and 14% of adolescents aged 12-19 are overweight, a statistic that has nearly tripled in the past 20 years. It's our goal to turn that trend around! We know that a balance of calories in and calories out is one of the keys to lifelong health.
Log It helps motivate kids to become, and remain physically active, by allowing them to log their daily physical activity steps or miles. In addition to recording their steps or miles, they can participate in a virtual hike across the USA with their class, be involved in class competitions vs. other classes, set daily goals, view their own personal step log, and compare their steps with other kids of the same age and gender.
The National Center for Safe Routes to School does not have an image library. However, if you are interested in images of children walking and bicycling to school please visit the International Walk to School Day photo library at IWalk.org. Here you will find hundreds of images searchable by county, region, city and year.
According to their Web site, PEDS provides Slow Down fans to schools participating in KidsWalk, an Atlanta-based pedestrian safety campaign. Use this template to print your own PEDS Slow Down Fans. Very popular with the kids, these fans send a clear message to drivers and keep you cool, too. Kids love to wave these fans at passing cars, that is, if they can ever get them out of their parents' hands.
On-campus walking activities are great for places where it is unsafe or difficult to walk to school; however, they require school or volunteer coordinators and support from administration as well as time in the school schedule. The following steps show a way to set up an on-campus walking activity:
Park and Walk activities include families who live too far to walk or have an unsafe route, encourage neighborhood involvement, and reduce traffic congestion at the school. In turn, these activities require identifying a safe route from the parking area to the school and working with the parking lot's owner.
