What Is it All About?
Students create a walking track around the school. During a specified time throughout the day, classes take turns on the track walking or running for 20 minutes.
Why Do It?
Take a break from learning and get that heart pumping every Wednesday with your walking program.
How Do We Do It?
Student leaders and/or students create a walking track around the school.
Students walk/run the track and after each lap receive a craft stick, distributed by a teacher.
Homeroom teachers report their classes’ total kilometers through an online form or on a bulletin board tracking sheet.
What Else Do We Need?
- Craft sticks
- Track cards
- Pylons
How Do We Get Creative?
Increase or decrease the intensity of the locomotor movements.
Classes track their total distances and record them on a map, to show an equivalent distance across Canada.
Invite parents/caregivers, local sports teams, community members, or local celebrities to join the classes when they walk/run.