Resources for Schools
In addition to our comprehensive, setting specific toolkits, we have a number of resources for schools and school nutrition programs to adopt 5-2-1-0.
- Let’s Go! School Wellness Policy Guide – This guide is designed to be a user-friendly tool to assist schools in developing and implementing model Wellness-Related Policies that include Let’s Go!’s priority strategies and HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC) strategies which support healthy eating and active living within the school community.You will find modifiable versions of key Wellness Policy Guide resources below:
- Model School Wellness Policy
- School Wellness Policy Assessment Tool
- School Wellness Policy Implementation Plan Worksheet
- Healthy Favorites – A Booklet Full of Healthy Tips and Recipes: Let this booklet guide you on your journey to good health! The tips, suggestions, and recipes contained here will give you the tools to get started today!
- Do More-Watch Less! is a toolkit that can help schools to encourage children and teens to incorporate more screen-free activities into their lives.
- Here are some presentations you can customize to advocate for implementing 5-2-1-0 Goes to School in your school community
- 5210 Goes to School – Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
- Physical Activity and Academic Achievement: There’s a connection!
- We’ve also provided a video ‘walk through’ of the presentation, so that local presenters can become more comfortable conducting it themselves.
- Consequences of Using Food as a Reward
- Download and print certificates or stickers to give out as a reward when you “catch” your students doing something healthy:
- Activity Cards for the Classroom -Use these fun filled activity cards to get your students active during the school day. These cards can be used as an activity break, a classroom energizer, a fun reward, etc…
- Making The Case for Increased Physical Activity and Healthy Eating In The School Environment (The Relationship to Academic Achievement).
- A number of studies have shown a positive relationship between physical activity, healthy eating and improved academic performance. The literature listed below highlight this relationship and can serve as a resource when advocating the importance of policy and environmental changes supportive of increased physical activity and healthy eating in the school environment.
- The Association between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2010
- Active Education: Physical Education, Physical Activity and Academic Performance, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2007
- The Crucial Role of Recess in School. Pediatrics. 2013
- Academic Performance and Student Health Risk-Technical Report. Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2013
- Do dietary trajectories between infancy and toddlerhood influence IQ in childhood and adolescence? Results from a prospective birth cohort study. PloS one. 2013
- Food insufficiency and American school-aged children’s cognitive, academic, and psychosocial development. Pediatrics. 2001
- Physical Education and Academic Achievement in Elementary School: Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. American Journal of Public Health. 2008
- A number of studies have shown a positive relationship between physical activity, healthy eating and improved academic performance. The literature listed below highlight this relationship and can serve as a resource when advocating the importance of policy and environmental changes supportive of increased physical activity and healthy eating in the school environment.