Classroom Physical Activity Social Media and Newsletters
Integrating physical activity into the classroom can improve students’ health and readiness to learn. CDC Healthy Schools and Springboard to Active Schoolsexternal icon have developed resources to help integrate physical activity into the classroom. The following social media, newsletter, email, and blog content can help you promote these classroom physical activity resources.
Use the information below to promote classroom physical activity resources through relevant social media outlets.
Hashtags
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- Use #ClassroomPhysicalActivity.
- If character limits permit, use #CDCHealthySchools and tag @Springboard2AS.
- Discover new resources for school staff to support #ClassroomPhysicalActivity. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Check out 10 strategies from @CDCChronic and @Springboard2AS to help students get #ClassroomPhysicalActivity. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- #ClassroomPhysicalActivity helps kids stay healthy and ready to learn with the help of these new resources. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Schools can use these tools to add physical activity into the classroom. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Parents, talk to your child’s teacher about the importance of #ClassroomPhysicalActivity. Get ideas here to start the conversation. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Add #ClassroomPhysicalActivity to your local school wellness policy. New resources from @CDCChronic and @Springboard2AS can show you how. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Students can learn better and be healthier when they get #ClassroomPhysicalActivity. Check out these new resources to learn more! https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Students can benefit when physical activity is a part of their classroom time. CDC Healthy Schools and Springboard to Active Schools have released new resources to help educators add physical activity into the classroom schedule. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Students can learn better and be healthier when they get physical activity in the classroom. Learn about the benefits of classroom physical activity for ALL students. Use new resources from CDC Healthy Schools and Springboard to Active Schools to implement strategies for classroom physical activity. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Parents can support their child’s learning and health by promoting classroom physical activity in their child’s school. Get a tip sheet here. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Making physical activity part of classroom time benefits students. Check out new strategies and tools from CDC and Springboard to Active Schools to integrate classroom physical activity into the daily school schedule. https://bit.ly/2IXcsLfexternal icon
- Pin the Classroom Physical Activity infographics from CDC Healthy Schools’ Pinterest board at www.pinterest.com/cdcgov/cdc-healthy-schools/.
Include the following text in a longer message for a newsletter, email, or blog. Add a personal or local story to your message. Think about why classroom physical activity is important to you, or share a classroom physical activity success story.
Sample Text:
CDC and Springboard to Active Schools have developed new resources for educators to help bring physical activity into the classroom. These resources will help schools use evidence-based strategies to incorporate classroom physical activity.
Schools can use these resources in the following ways:
- Use Strategies for Classroom Physical Activity in Schools pdf icon[PDF – 9 MB] to identify the 10 evidence-based strategies for planning and providing classroom physical activity.
- Use Integrate Classroom Physical Activity in Schools: A Guide for Putting Strategies Into Practice pdf icon[PDF – 4 MB] to assess your ability to adopt, promote, enhance, and sustain strategies identified in Strategies for Classroom Physical Activity in Schools.
- Use Online Platform: Integrate Classroom Physical Activity in Schoolsexternal icon to search for best practices and practical ideas for implementing each strategy identified in Strategies for Classroom Physical Activity in Schools.
- Use Data Brief: Integrate Classroom Physical Activity in Schools pdf icon[PDF – 389 KB] to better understand the status of classroom physical activity in the United States, national guidance for classroom physical activity, and practical resources available to implement classroom physical activity.
- Use Ideas for Parents: Classroom Physical Activity pdf icon[PDF – 1 MB] to share ideas with parents on how they can promote classroom physical activity in their child’s school.
- Use the Integrate Classroom Physical Activity: Getting Student Active During School [PPTX – 12 MB] PowerPoint presentation to explain the benefits and importance of classroom physical activity, as well as the resources available from CDC and Springboard to Active Schools.
