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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.
Making the Case for 150 Minutes
Here you can find resources to help parents and others understand the importance of adopting 150 minutes of physical activity at school.
Fact Sheets and Other Resources
- Health and Academics Fact Sheet
- Fact Sheet for Parents (English)
- Fact Sheet for Parents (Spanish)
- Fact Sheet for Kids
- Timoneer Handout for Kids
- Healthy for Life (English)
- Healthy for Life (Spanish)
- Youth Physical Activity: The Role of Schools (from the CDC)
- Active Bodies, Active Minds Fact Sheet (from California Project Lean)
- Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity in Physical Education (from California Project Lean)
- Physical Activity During the School Day (from California Project Lean)
- Gym Gone But Not Forgotten? (from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital)
Research Studies
- The Serious Need for Play
- Why Play = Learning
- Classroom-based Physical Activity and Academic Achievement
- Ten Years of Take 10!
- Exercise Improves Executive Function and Achievement and Alters Brain Activation
- Moving with the Brain in Mind
- The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance
- Active Education Research Brief
- Physical Activity Across the Curriculum
- Link Between Physical Activity and Academic Achievement (from FitKids NC)
- PASS & CATCH Improves Academic Achievement
- CATCH Cornell Study 2010
- Aerobic Fitness and Neurocognitive Function
- Classroom-Based Program, Physical Activity and On-Task Behavior
- Effect of Treadmill Walking on Cognitive Control
- Physical Fitness and Academic Achievement
- Physically Fit Students Do Well in School
- School Recess and Group Classroom Behavior
Political Action
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