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MyActivity Pyramid Pilot Robin Gammon Assistant Curriculum & Staff Training Coordinator Kid’s Activity Pyramid History The original Kid’s Activity Pyramid based on Food Guide Pyramid Need new activity pyramid to look like new MyPyramid MyActivity Pyramid-Version #1
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MyActivity Pyramid Pilot Robin Gammon Assistant Curriculum & Staff Training Coordinator
Kid’s Activity Pyramid History • The original Kid’s Activity Pyramid based on Food Guide Pyramid • Need new activity pyramid to look like new MyPyramid
MyActivity Pyramid-Version #1 • Draft introduced at May Conference by Steve Ball
MyActivity Pyramid • NPA feedback • Feedback was documented
Comments from Annual Conference • Add more diversity • Eliminate separated levels and add staircase to make it less like the old Food Guide Pyramid • Put wheelchair guy on the bottom level
Comments from Annual Conference-Continued • Add water • Add bike with helmet • Change “Lifestyle” Activities to “Everyday Activities”
Pilot Program • NPAs volunteered to help pilot • An email was sent asking for available dates to pilot • Pilot - last three weeks of June
Participating Sites and NPAs • St. Louis, MO - Pam Ingram • Imperial, MO - Gidget Mudd • Tina, MO - Pam Gladbach • Kansas City, MO - Sonia Jackson • St. James, MO - Karen Clancy
Participants • 272 students (116 urban students and 156 rural) from different ethnic backgrounds • Ages 6-11 • Participated in summer school programs • All were asked a series of questions about the MyActivity Pyramid
Pilot Questions • What do you like to do to be active? • What does this picture tell us to do? • Are the activities in this picture ones that you like to do? • Do you recognize the colors on the side of the pyramid?
Pilot Questions-cont. • What is happening at the top of the pyramid? • What is the water for? • Anything else you want to tell me?
Consistent comments, questions • Soccer is missing • Why is the girl in the back of the pyramid catching bugs? • Why are the skater boy's toes curled? • The water bottle is used to water the plants.
Consistent comments, questions • The boy that is chained to television is fixing it. • Is taking pictures of plants an activity?
Changes made • Added soccer • Deleted girl in the back catching bugs • Fixed skater boy’s toes • Put water bottle in the hand of a boy and on the bike
Changes made-Cont. • Deleted chain on top of the pyramid • Deleted camera and added a watering can
USDA comments • Add “Be active for at least 60 minutes every day, or most days. Use these suggestion to meet your goal,” to the front of the graphic.
Thanks!! • Participating schools • Pam Ingram, Gidget Mudd, Pam Gladbach, Sonia Jackson, Karen Clancey • Dennis Murphy, Kim Watkins, Joe Vale • Allison Copeland, Ellen Schuster, and Steve Ball