Get 'em active
Physical activities and exercises may be frustrating for obese kids but if you deliberately turn these activities into play, then you get them involved-and active after all. If you give children the chance, they gladly become valuable resource. This is what Get ‘em active is about
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Godspower
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Oboido
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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?
School visits: The schoolteacher [preferably the physical education teacher] organizes school visits to other schools around in the county. The main purpose for this is to get these students walk/jog [exercise] some distance to the host school. Students may not like to race but would surely like to jog along with their friends and jog to make even new friends in the host school. This is like an ‘Endurance walk’, but fun. During the visits, these would be some of the activities:
Group discussions: Which should include the teachers and students of the visiting school and school visited. They can discuss both academic and health issues concerning them and their schools.
Work: When other students visit a school, they can help the host school do some cleaning work together like the school sanitation and can also help arrange the school library. The cleaning up of the school can go quickly and be fun if everybody works. Game races, small refreshment and simple prizes can help turn the work into play, which will get everyone involved.
The program can be implemented during the school day during recess break and one dedicated hour before closing on Fridays. A great way to enter the weekend. This program may not be daily, but at least three times a week [Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays]
Name Your Project
Get 'em active
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)
The program can/plans to serve as much school children as possible. There cannot be any specific number of children because it is aimed at an entire class/school, which therefor includes everyone.
Each child, individually and collectively would spend about 45 – 60 minutes on daily basis
Describe Your Idea
Physical activities and exercises may be frustrating for obese kids but if you deliberately turn these activities into play, then you get them involved-and active after all. If you give children the chance, they gladly become valuable resource. This is what Get ‘em active is about
Tell us the story behind the social innovator. (150 words max)
Godspower Oboido is a creative writer, inventor, and social innovator as well as passionate about sports, especially soccer. He’s a player-coach for Living Spring FC in Nigeria. One thing he likes is creating and suggesting new and better ideas for development.
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 | 131 weeks agoGodspower Oboido said: Thanks for the wonderful comment about my idea. when I first saw it, I visited your website and it is not enough to say that you are ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 132 weeks agoMichael Fry said: Godspower - I really like your ideas: 1) School visits to other schools around in the county, to get these students walking / jogging ... about this Competition Entry. - read more > |
| 137 weeks agoGodspower Oboido updated this Competition Entry. |
| 137 weeks agoGodspower Oboido updated this Competition Entry. |
| 137 weeks agoGodspower Oboido submitted this idea. |
