When teachers use HKC they improve their classroom attendance and academic scores

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

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).  

	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!

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.