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Interested in 150 Minutes for Your School?
Regardless of your location, we invite you to use the materials on our site. We are funded by a grant to provide hands-on assistance to Delaware schools, so please contact us directly if you need help starting a program for a Delaware school. No matter where you live, it's important for all schools to do their part to increase physical activity.
Make School a Moving Experience Resources
Tools & Resources
These are some tools you can use when you work on implementing the 150 minutes of physical activity at your school. You will find classroom and communication tools, persuasive materials to help explain the need for 150 minutes, past eNewsletters, and information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that explain the benefits of physical activity.
Get What You Need
Planning and Monitoring Tools
- Physical Activity Action Plan
- Physical Activity Planning Worksheet
- Take 10!® Curriculum Crosswalk links TAKE 10! activities to Common Core State Standards and Delaware Content Standards. This resource can be used as a reference for incorporating physical activity into daily lesson plans, from Kindergarten to Grade 5.
Communication Tools
Use these communications tools in school newsletters, on your website, and in other materials to inform and promote your school's participation in this initative to families and throughout your school.
- Ideas for Parent Engagement
- Shoe logo
- Newsletter Copy Blocks
- CDC brochures
- Make School a Moving Experience PowerPoint (3 MB powerpoint file, may take time to load)
- Communication & Kick-off Event Ideas for Your School
- Let's Move! Materials for Distribution
Classroom Activities
- 10 Ways to Be Active for Indoor Recess
- Robin Moxley's Dancing to Math Concepts Song Lyrics (Townsend Elementary School)
- Classroom Fitness Break Videos (from Alliance for a Healthier Generation)
- Action Stories
- 5-2-1-Almost None Booklist
- Create Your Own Indoor Fitness Trail (from Alliance for a Healthier Generation)
- Physically Active Field Trips
- Model Instructional Units for CATCH Activities*
- CATCH Me Having Fun (K-2)
- CATCH a Healthy Heart (3-5)
- CATCH Onto Healthy Lifestyles (3-5)
- CATCHing and Keeping Good Health = No Tobacco Use! (3-5)
- Choose to CATCH Health (3-5)
- Warming up to CATCH (K-2)
- CATCHing Physical Activity (3-5)
*These, along with other activities, can also be found on the DEDOE Health Education website, and the DEDOE Physical Education website.
Why 150 Minutes?
Regular physical activity is absolutely essential for children's health, quality of life, and maintaining a healthy weight. Current recommendations state that children need at least an hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity daily. Schools need to be a part of this, by ensuring all students participate in a minimum of 30 minutes of physical activity during the school day.
Quick Links
Trusted Websites
- CATCH - coordinated school health program
- Take 10! - classroom-based physical activity
- KidsHealth - kid and teen health and development information
- Energizers - classroom-based physical activity
- CATCH Kids Club - physical activity & nutrition program for after-school
- FitKidsNC - NC program to get youth healthy & active
- We Can! - Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity & Nutrition
- Let’s Move! - First Lady Michelle Obama’s nationwide campaign
- KidsHealth in the Classroom- free health curriculum materials for educators