Let’s Go! 5210 Goes to School
Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Academic Performance

A number of studies have shown a positive correlation between physical activity, healthy eating and better academic performance. Below is a list of resources highlighting some of these studies and correlations. These resources can be used when advocating the importance of policy and environmental changes supportive of increased physical activity and healthy eating in the school environment.

Physical Activity and Academic Performance Presentation

Provided below is a customizable power point presentation that can be used to demonstrate importance of increased physical activity as it relates to academic performance and how schools can use 5210 Goes to School to support increased physical activity during the school day. Let’s Go! recommends that this presentation be personalized and conducted by local champions or leaders.  This can include: program champions or team members, school health coordinators, physicians, superintendants, principals or anyone in the community invested in increasing physical activity during the school day. So, we’ve also provided a video ‘walk through’ of the presentation, so that local presenters can become more comfortable conducting it themselves.

Physical Activity and Academic Performance Power Point

Physical Activity and Academic Performance Presentation Walk Through

Literature

Healthy Learning Issue of Educational Leadership, December 2009/January 2010, Vol. 67 No.4. www.ascd.org

Articles:

• Taking Charge of School Wellness, pp 38 – 43
• Why We Should Not Cut P.E., pp 60 – 65
• First Steps to a Healthier School, pp 82 – 83

Health & Leadership Special Report Issue of American School Board Journal, February 2009. www.asbj.com

Articles:

• From the National School Boards Association, p. 32
• From Leadership for Healthy Communities, p. 33
• Advocating for School Wellness, pp 35 -37
• Building Community Partnerships, pp 39 – 40
• Ensuring Sustainability, pp 41 – 43

Study Show Overwhelming Parent Support for Healthier Schools: Survey for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation finds most parents wiling to help schools improve food offerings and increase physical activity.

October 28, 2009

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation www.rwjf.org
The Relationship between Physical Activity, Weight, and Academic Achievement

Safe Routes to School National Partnership (SRTSNP). 2007. www.saferoutespartnership.org