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Blue Zones Challenge: Getting Started

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Now that you are registered as an Educator, you have access to the Challenge materials and the ability to create unique user IDs  for each of your students under your account. Creating student user IDs will allow every student to enter their activity totals each week at the Web site and track their progress, as well as compare their results to those of other students around the nation and world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Begin the Discussion

Launch the Blue Zones Challenge with an open dialogue about your students' health habits and yours. Do your students know how much exercise they get each day? How much television they watch? How many serving of fruits, vegetables and sweetened beverages they consume? How do they feel about what they're currently doing? How do they think they compare to the national average? Do they think their current behaviors are healthy?

Need some other ideas? Check out our Strategies for Success.

pdf Strategies for Success

Pre-Challenge Week

 With students as the driving force, they will be most successful with combined involvement from both parents and educators. When you are ready to begin, send home the Letter to Parents. Rather than keeping everything at home, we recommend you keep the Blue Zones Challenge Log, a tool for students to record their daily habits, in your classroom for easier management.

pdf Letter to Parents

pdf Blue Zones Challenge Log

Week 1

 When you have completed Pre-Challenge Week, send home the Blue Zones Challenge Contract. Students will determine both long-term and weekly goals for the Blue Zones Challenge with the help of their parents. Your students are to then return the Contract (signed by both students and parents) to you for monitoring purposes.

Throughout Weeks 1-3, use the suggested Blue Zones Challenge activities to have fun, learn new concepts and give your students the tools they need to meet their individual goals. Don't forget to have students log on to the Web site to enter in their data.		 pdf Blue Zones Challenge Contract

Week 2-3

 For the remaining two weeks, work with your students to complete the Challenge Logs and make sure they enter in their data on the Web site.

Wrapping Up

 Ask students to submit their completed Contracts. Have another classroom discussion: Were they able to meet their goals? What were the most difficult obstacles they encountered? Did they feel they were able to make any lasting changes to improve their health and fitness?

Have students share their stories with us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . We will post the most inspiring stories on our Web site to motivate other students.