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School Health Guidelines
to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Knowledge Check

You are a physical education teacher and a member of the School Health Team at Jefferson Middle School. You now have a better understanding of the components of a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. Working with the School Health Team, you have gained approval to establish a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program at Jefferson Middle School and are ready to begin the process.

Read the following statements to select the most appropriate response.

  1. In order to establish the ideal Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program, you know your program must include these components:
  1. You know there is a seven-step process to establish, implement, and evaluate a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. The following list describes the correct sequence:
    STEP 1: Establish a team/committee and designate an individual to be the Physical Activity Leader.
    STEP 2: Conduct a needs assessment.
    STEP 3: Create a vision, goals, and objectives.
    STEP 4: Identify intended outcomes.
    STEP 5: Develop your CSPAP plan to identify and plan activities.
    STEP 6: Implement.
    STEP 7: Evaluate.
  1. Your team is ready to work on a vision statement, goals, and objectives for the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. Select the appropriate "vision" statement.
  1. Your team is ready to work on a vision statement, goals, and objectives for the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. Select the appropriate "goal" statement.
  1. Your team is ready to work on a vision statement, goals, and objectives for the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. Select the appropriate "objective" statement.
  1. Your team is ready to identify activities for the implementation plan for Jefferson Middle School’s Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program. Select one activity that will not likely produce the intended outcome of increased physical activity opportunities throughout the school day.
  1. The School Health Team has identified communication and marketing strategies to let students and parents know about available opportunities for physical activity. Indicate the priority information that needs to be communicated.

Congratulations! You have successfully participated in the initial steps to develop a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program as a member of the School Health Team. Other goals and objectives would be identified in the same way to determine activities, necessary resources, and communication strategies to outline what will be done, by whom, when, and how to chart a course for increasing daily physical activity behaviors of students.

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