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1 Classroom Display Pack Make th l a e H t r! Hea Happen Play Every Day! active for 60 or more minutes a day. Spread your physical activity throughout the day. Choose physical activities that you enjoy! Watch Out for Sneaky Sodium! Learn which common foods are high in sodium, such as pizza, chips and cheese. Become a sodium detective! Read Nutrition Facts labels. Choose foods and snacks that are low in sodium. Eat Colorful Fruits and Vegetables! Steer Clear of Tobacco! Eat a fruit or vegetable with every meal. Refuse all tobacco products, including electronic ones. Eat different colors of fruits and vegetables. Avoid secondhand smoke. Try a new fruit or vegetable every month. Tell others that tobacco can cause heart disease and cancer. Stick With Water! Help Others Be Heart Healthy! Skip sugary beverages drink water instead. Spread the word about healthy habits. Add flavor to water with slices of watermelon or cucumber. + Remember! Too much sugar can contribute to heart disease and tooth decay. Set a good example of a healthy lifestyle. Encourage others to make positive changes. Get students monstrously excited about heart health! Materials: brightly colored bulletin board paper (background) brown bulletin board paper (tree stump) green crepe paper six heart-healthy info sheets, provided monster character, provided brown marker stapler scissors Steps: 1. Cover a bulletin board (or large wall space) with bulletin board paper. Cut a tree trunk shape from the brown paper. Add details with the marker. Use crepe paper to trim the display. Add a title. Cut out the monster character and staple it to the display. Staple the heart-healthy info sheets to the display. Extension Activity: Label a jumbo heart cutout for each grade level in the school. The next time you meet with each class, gather the students around the display. Go over the heart-healthy action statements on each info sheet. Encourage conversation. Then invite each student to sign the appropriate grade level heart to show his or her commitment to living a heart-healthy lifestyle. When students in each grade level have added their names, post the cutouts around the gym.

2 Classroom Display Pack Additional Suggestions: Scare Squad Get your students and their families involved in heart-healthy habits. Give each student a Heart-Healthy Bingo Card to take home. Ask students to work with their families to complete ten or more heart-healthy lifestyle actions within one week. Explain that each student who returns a signed bingo card showing five boxes colored in a row will have his or her name entered in a drawing to win the privilege of choosing the game or activity for an upcoming P.E. class. Engage students in a heart-healthy physical activity while reviewing heart-healthy behaviors. Line up half of the students on each side of the gym with the lines facing each other. To play a round, direct students to hop, skip, jump, or gallop to the center of the gym. Announce a heart-healthy habit. If a student has practiced the habit in the last day, he or she continues to the other side of the gym. If not, the student returns to his or her starting point for that round. Students start the next round from their current locations. Now that s a hearthealthy review! Name + Date Heart-Healthy Bing o Choose 10 or more heart-he When a behavior has Eat a fruit or vegetable with your breakfast. Read a Nutrition Facts label with an adult. Explain why it is important to avoid secondhand smoke. althy behaviors to practice as a family. been practiced, color its square. Eat a healthy slice of fruit. active for 60 or more Try a new type of fruit or vegetable. Spend a day without drinking a sugary beverage. member three health benefits of being physically active. Track your physical activity for a day. Eat a low-sodium member why sugary beverages are bad for the heart. cucumber slice. Explain why all forms of tobacco are bad for the heart. Eat three different colors of fruits and vegetables in a day. Name five foods high in sodium. for 30 or more for 20 or more Eat at least one serving of fruit or vegetables with each meal during a day. Count how many glasses of water you drink in one day. Signature of family member : 2017 American Heart Association. Text and design by The Education A vegetable was part of my dinner last night. Included in this pack: Eat Colorful Fruits and Vegetables! Play Every Day! 60 active for or more minutes a day. ical phys Spread your day. activity throughout the 2017 American Heart Association. Association. Text and design by The Education Text and design by The Education Learn which common foods are high in sodiu m, such as pizza, chips and cheese. Add flavor to water with slices of watermelon or cucumber. Try a new fruit or vegetable every month. ities Watch Out for Sneaky Sodium! Skip sugary beverages drink water instead. Eat a fruit or vegetable with every meal. Eat different colors of fruits and vegetables. Choose physical activ that you enjoy! 2017 American Heart Stick With Water! Become a sodium detective! Read Nutrition Facts labels. Remember! Too much sugar can contribute to heart disease and tooth decay American Heart Association. Text and design by The Education Choose foods and snacks that are low in sodium American Heart Association. Text and design by The Education Scare Squad Name + Date Heart-Healthy Bing o Help Others Be Heart Healthy! Steer Clear of Tobacco! Refuse all tobacco products, including electronic ones. Avoid secondhand smoke. Choose 10 or more heart-hea lthy behaviors to practice When a behavior has as a family. been practiced, color its square. Eat a fruit or vegetable with your breakfast. Spread the word about healthy habits. + active for 60 or more Set a good example of a healthy lifestyle. Read a Nutrition Facts label with an adult. Encourage others to make positive changes. Tell others that tobacco can cause heart disease and cancer. Explain why it is important to avoid secondhand smoke American Heart Association American Heart Association. Association. Text 2017 American Heart and design by The Education Text and design by The Education Eat a healthy Text and design by The Education Spend a day without drinking a sugary beverage. Track your physical activity for a day. slice of fruit. Try a new type of fruit or vegetable. member three health benefits of being physically active. heart. Signature of family member: Eat three different colors of fruits and vegetables in a day. Eat at least one serving of fruit or vegetables with each meal during a day American Heart Association. Text and cucumber slice. Explain why all forms of tobacco are bad for the heart. Name five foods high in sodium. member why sugary beverages are bad for the for 30 or more Eat a low-sodium for 20 or more design by The Education Count how many glasses of water you drink in one day.

3 Play Every Day! active for 60 or more minutes a day. Spread your physical activity throughout the day. Choose physical activities that you enjoy!

4 Eat Colorful Fruits and Vegetables! Eat a fruit or vegetable with every meal. Eat different colors of fruits and vegetables. Try a new fruit or vegetable every month.

5 Stick With Water! Skip sugary beverages drink water instead. Add flavor to water with slices of watermelon or cucumber. Remember! Too much sugar can contribute to heart disease and tooth decay.

6 Watch Out for Sneaky Sodium! Learn which common foods are high in sodium, such as pizza, chips and cheese. Become a sodium detective! Read Nutrition Facts labels. Choose foods and snacks that are low in sodium.

7 Steer Clear of Tobacco! Refuse all tobacco products, including electronic ones. Avoid secondhand smoke. Tell others that tobacco can cause heart disease and cancer.

8 Help Others Be Heart Healthy! Spread the word about healthy habits. Set a good example of a healthy lifestyle. + Encourage others to make positive changes.

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10 Scare Squad + Name Date Heart-Healthy Bingo Choose 10 or more heart-healthy behaviors to practice as a family. When a behavior has been practiced, color its square. Eat a fruit or vegetable with your breakfast. Eat a healthy slice of fruit. for 20 or more active for 60 or more Try a new type of fruit or vegetable. Eat a low-sodium cucumber slice. Read a Nutrition Facts label with an adult. Spend a day without drinking a sugary beverage. member three health benefits of being physically active. Explain why all forms of tobacco are bad for the heart. Explain why it is important to avoid secondhand smoke. Track your physical activity for a day. Name five foods high in sodium. Eat three different colors of fruits and vegetables in a day. for 30 or more member why sugary beverages are bad for the heart. Eat at least one serving of fruit or vegetables with each meal during a day. Count how many glasses of water you drink in one day. Signature of family member: