Educise: Bringing Fitness, Fun and Nutrition Education into your school
A Healthcare team has been carrying out a curriculum of exercise and nutrition lessons to low-income, minority fifth graders. Nutrition lessons are interactive, using creative teaching tools and healthy snack demonstrations. The exercise sessions include education on the benefits of exercise, as well as a fun 30 minute cardiovascular training.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Kathy
Last Name
Marshall
Website
School or Organization
Southern Regional Medical Center
Country
United States
Section 2: About Your Organization
School/Organization Name
Southern Regional Medical Center
School/Organization Website
southernregional.org
School/Organization Phone
770-991-8626
School/Organization Address
11 Upper Riverdale Rd., Riverdale, GA 30274
School/Organization Country
United States
Your idea
Are you a
Other
How does your innovation currently get kids (or how might it get kids) engaged in physical activity? How would your idea or project potentially be implemented during the school day?
This program helps to get kids involved in physical activity by teaching them different types of exercises as well as providing pedometers for kids so they can track their progress and work towards achieving fitness goals. This program is offered during the normal school day as a part of the health curriculum. The children have a 30 minute nutrition session and 30 minute exercise session once a week.
Name Your Project
Educise: Bringing Fitness, Fun and Nutrition Education into your school
How many children does this program currently or plan to serve? How much time does each child spend daily/weekly engaged in physical activity? (150 words max)
Our program currently serves 30 children for eight weeks. We are conducting 2 sessions per year at this point. Our goal is to get the entire 5th grade students at McGarrah Elementary School involved in this program. The participating school has 150 5th grade students.
The children will be involved in approximately 30 minutes of supervised physical activity per week in addition to 30 minutes of weekly nutrition education. Weekly pedometer tracking is meant to encourage exercise beyond our weekly sessions, allowing the children to see and track their weekly activity levels.
Describe Your Idea
A Healthcare team has been carrying out a curriculum of exercise and nutrition lessons to low-income, minority fifth graders. Nutrition lessons are interactive, using creative teaching tools and healthy snack demonstrations. The exercise sessions include education on the benefits of exercise, as well as a fun 30 minute cardiovascular training.
Tell us the story behind the social innovator. (150 words max)
The social innovators are a team of health professionals (a hospital-based nurse and dietitian as well as a fitness specialist from the local college) that have a passion for reducing the incidence of obesity, and its devastating health effects, in children. The way in which we want to accomplish this is by influencing children to make behavior changes that will ultimately benefit their health.
A collaboration was formed between Clayton State University for the exercise component of our program and Southern Regional Medical Center (SRMC)’s Diabetes Resource Center and Hospital Foundation to reduce the cases of obesity observed in the SRMC Outpatient Nutrition Program. In the winter of 2009, we launched our first program in the school. The program was such a huge success, we decided to continue the program for another year!
 | 131 weeks agoMichael Fry said: This is a great idea with a lot of dedication and resources. I especially like the way you have partnered with Clayton State University ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 133 weeks agoKristen Jones updated this Competition Entry. |
| 133 weeks agoKristen Jones submitted this idea. |
