Teacher

Healthy Kids Challenge shares your vision for students with better attention, attendance, and math and spelling scores! HKC lesson booklets and E-newsletters provide teaching ideas for transition time or to integrate with core curriculum.

Teachers – Youth Leaders – Wellness Teams and other KidLinks™

Take Action!

Connect healthy eating – Physical activity – Academic Success

	Six messages Make teaching easy - help kids on the road to academic success Fruits & Veggies – Every Day the Tasty Way!  Snack Attack! Active Play EVERY Day! Breakfast GO POWER! Discover Smart Servings! Drink Think!

1. Sign up for the My Healthy Challenge, a monthly challenge for healthy eating and physical activity
   • 3-5 personal actions from which you can choose
   • Ideas to challenge yourself and others
2. Use a simple Monthly Action Idea to connect physical activity-learning in the classroom.  Bookmark the page and return each month for a new idea. During a staff meeting, share and demonstrate it for your colleagues.
   • For example, connect movement and spelling: Practice spelling as a group, while “popping up” with vowels and sitting down with consonants.
   • Emphasize that physical activity in the classroom is good for you and good for kids!
3. Try integrating a simple message about healthy eating. HKC’s *six healthy messages make teaching easy and consistent for the greatest impact.
   
   For a Snack Attack lesson (found in HKC’s Snack Attack Booklet):
   • Collect boxes (or labels) for 5 different “snack” foods. 
   • Without looking at the label, have students order the labels from lowest to highest about of fat (and then sugar). 
   • Integrate the lesson with math by discussing metric weights, or calculating fat and/or sugar intake with different serving sizes. 
   For younger students, use this as a problem solving activity. Talk about snack foods that are lower in fat and sugar, but still taste good (like fresh fruits).  
4. Stimulate your creativity. Sign up for Wednesday WOWS
   • A short, weekly E-newsletter (during the school year)
   • A simple idea to take action for healthy eating-physical activity in schools or youth groups
   • Parent tips in a simple “cut-and-paste” format for use in your own newsletter
5. Connect with parents. Find reproducible parent tip sheets good for health fairs or classroom uses:
   • HKC’s Setting Up for Success Booklet
   • HKC-CIGNA Fit and Fun Families Toolkit

*KidLink™: A HKC term used to describe people who can help kids make healthy eating and physical activity choices a habit

HKC uses Hear-See-Do strategies for greater IMPACT to make healthy living a habit
Hear—a message
See—how and why to make a change
Do—develop solutions and practice healthy choices

Through training, resources, and consulting, HKC is building a healthy world kid by kid.