National Standards for Physical Education

SHAPE America's National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education define what a student should know and be able to do as a result of a highly effective physical education program. States and local school districts across the country use the National Standards to develop or revise existing standards, frameworks, and curricula.

CDC Classroom Physical Activity Promotion Kit

This promotion kit from CDC provides ideas for how to promote classroom physical activity resources using social media, newsletters, infographics, web badges, and more.

CDC: Healthy Schools – Physical Education and Physical Activity

This is the CDC's overview and entry into information about both Physical Education programs and its recommended approaches to helping youth achieve the recommended goal of 60 minutes of physical activity each day.

CDC: Physical Activity for Youth and Adolescents

This CDC fact sheet focuses on the physical activity guidelines for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 and includes recommendations for three types of activity: aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening Each type has important health benefits.

Game On!

From Action for Healthy Kids, Game On is a flexible and adaptable online program, supporting America's schools in creating healthier school environments for students, staff, and the communities they serve. This no-cost online guide provides all the information and resources you need to host a successful school wellness program in your school with the ultimate goal of getting your school nationally recognized as a health-promoting school.

Game On! Step 4: Find Activities

This interactive school map helps your Fuel Up to Play 60 team with ideas for nutrition and physical activities for all aspects of the school building. Activities range from leading physical activity breaks in the classroom, to offering more fruits and veggies in the cafeteria, to providing recess on the playground before lunch.

Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (2nd Edition)

The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans provides evidence-based guidance to help Americans maintain or improve their health through physical activity.

SHAPE America: Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program

CSPAP is a multi-component approach by which school districts and schools use all opportunities for students to be physically active, meet the nationally-recommended 60 minutes of physical activity each day, and develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be physically active for a lifetime.

SHAPE America: Posters and Infographics

These resources from the SHAPE America digital download library can be used to highlight specific priorities and motivate students and adults to get active. Additional links provide guides, curricula, and activity ideas.

Society for Health and Physical Education: Teacher’s Toolbox

This comprehensive resource provides information and guidance for educators and coaches in topics such as elementary and high school P.E., adapted physical education, health education, and more. It also includes activity calendars.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Move Your Way – 60 a Day! Infographic

This two-page flyer helps students understand how to fit 60 minutes of physical activity into their day.

Tools – Why Physical Activity – CDC: Healthy Schools – Physical Education and Physical Activity

This Centers for Disease Control resource provides information and guidance on topics such as in-class activity, before and after school activity, recess, and more.

This comprehensive resource from the Centers for Disease Control and SHAPE America provides research, resources and links to multiple ideas on how to integrate physical activity in schools throughout the school day.

This resource from the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) outlines key reasons for and elements of successful P.E. programs, and provides tools and resources that can help schools review their own programs.

MyPlate Message Toolkit for Professionals

This online toolkit includes graphics, sample social media, videos, and links to more information for each of the key messages in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

This resource from the U.S. Department of Agriculture highlights the 2012 changes in school meal standards designed to align school meals with the latest nutrition science and the real world circumstances of America’s schools.

Issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2008, these guidelines describe the federal government's recommendations for the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans.

The Presidential Youth Fitness Program emphasizes the value of living a physically active life — in school and beyond. With this program, schools gain access to resources to help students engage in their own health and fitness, including the use of Fitnessgram®, which measures students’ physical fitness against a set of health-based criteria rather than their performance compared to peers.

This guidebook from the Centers for Disease Control (2010) outlines and provides a rationale for key strategies aimed at increasing the amount of time that students are engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity while in physical education class.

This collection of resources from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Services department includes links to policy and training resources, curricular materials, core nutrition messaging and other nutrition education materials.

10 Tips: MyPlate Snack Tips for Parents

This list of tips from USDA's MyPlate gives suggestions for grab-and-go snacks, ways to swap ingredients for healthier choices, and more.

This interview with physical activity expert George Graham, PhD, provides a set of questions and answers about the importance of moving more with kids.

It's important for children to adopt a healthy lifestyle starting at a young age. Parents play an essential role in helping shape children's eating habits. Try these simple tips to help your children eat well and learn to enjoy nutritious foods.

This resource, from former First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! program, provides five simple steps for improving family health. Tips for physical activity include limiting screen time, ways family members can be active together and ideas for how to get involved in school health.

This resource from former First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! program provides tips and suggestions for helping families to become more physically active.

Planning healthy meals is easy. Just follow these simple tips.

This resource includes ideas for quick and easy breakfasts that can be served at home or taken on the go. These foods and recipes could also be included at breakfast taste testing events.

MyPlate: Healthy Eating on a Budget

This set of tips includes ideas for how to plan your meals and shopping, how to look for bargains at the grocery store, low-cost recipes, and more.

These tip sheets from the USDA's ChooseMyPlate program offer brief sets of suggestions, on a variety of topics, to help you improve your healthy eating habits and selections.

Parents and caregivers can play a key role in keeping children healthy and active. Try these simple tips to keep your family moving.

Issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2008, these guidelines describe the federal government's recommendations for the types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans.

This tip sheet from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics provides information on the importance of breakfast and includes recipes and suggestions for healthy breakfast choices.

Want your children to be alert, focused and ready to tackle the day's academic challenges? Encourage them to eat breakfast. Not just on test days, but every day of the year. It's well-documented that breakfast eaters are more focused and energetic throughout the day.

When children eat school lunch, they are more likely to consume milk, meats, grains and vegetables compared to students who don't, including students who bring lunch from home. They also have higher nutrient intakes — both at lunch and over the course of an entire day. And cost-wise, school lunch is at a great value.

This resource from the National Institutes of Health provides information about why and how youth and families can get more physically active. The relationship between activity and nutrition is described, and there are links to additional articles that can help families move more.

This four-page handout from the Centers for Disease Control provides information for families on the types, duration and intensity of appropriate activities for youth. It also cites statistics on youth physical activity and provides tips for how parents and adult caregivers can help youth get more physical activity into their routines.

This paper from Action for Healthy Kids highlights the costs that poor nutrition and physical inactivity can have on schools, and shows evidence that making improvements in these areas can help schools both meet performance goals and alleviate some financial constraints.

This report — from GENYOUth, National Dairy Council (NDC), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American School Health Association (ASHA) — reinforces the crucial link between quality nutrition, physical activity and academic performance.

This American Academy of Pediatrics' collection provides articles of interest to educators, caregivers, parents and other adults interested in helping children achieve health and fitness recommendations. There are articles on topics such as developing long-term habits, setting goals and the expected developmental abilities of children in this age range.

This American Academy of Pediatrics' collection provides articles of interest to educators, caregivers, parents and other adults interested in helping teens achieve health and fitness recommendations. There are articles on topics such as different types of exercise appropriate for teens, developing a fitness plan and teens' developmental abilities.

Recess can boost students’ concentration and physical activity breaks as short as five minutes can improve test scores, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This report (2010) suggests that more time in physical education class can improve attention, concentration and test scores; it suggests physical activity clubs improve grade point average, educational goal setting and graduation rates.

This template suggests ways you can word a request for donations to your Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Play. Remember, this is just a guide. You will need to customize your request to reflect your program.

Guide: Earning Points with Fuel Up to Play 60

Learn how to earn Points on FuelUpToPlay60.com and create your road map to becoming a Student Ambassador.

Take the Pledge and start to Fuel Up to Play 60 today!

These teambuilding tips include ideas on how to recruit team members and form a team, as well as the characteristics of a well-functioning team.

FUTP 60 At-A-Glance: Infographic

This resource shows the impact FUTP 60 has had on students and schools.  

FUTP 60 Website Guide

This resource provides instructions on how to navigate the FUTP 60 website.

Guide to Linking Your School

This resource will help you get connected! Use the guide to help you link your school to FuelUpToPlay60.com.

Create and submit to your local news stations a news video or documentary about the healthy eating and physical activity programs that students in your school are doing — and how they are helping to earn rewards for your school.

Parent Information Letter Template

Through fun physical activities and healthy eating opportunities, help families learn how they can eat and play together in a healthy way.

Promote participation in Fuel Up to Play 60 by organizing a poster contest for each class or grade level. Students will create posters that highlight what they will do to meet Fuel Up to Play 60 goals and earn rewards for their school in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program.

Read about each of the Plays, including their goals and summaries of how they work.

This series of handouts includes nutrition tips, information about and ideas for physical activity, and ideas for timely activities you can do around holidays or monthly observances.

This template information letter for parents provides a description of Fuel Up to Play 60 and an introduction to FuelUpToPlay60.com.

Use these sample messages throughout the year to keep students and faculty focused on Fuel Up to Play 60.

School Wellness Investigation

The School Wellness Investigation is a tool that will help you and your team members collect information about your school's current nutrition and physical activity environment. Developed in alignment with authoritative guidelines, the School Wellness Investigation will identify opportunities to make your school's wellness environment even better!

School Wellness Investigation: How To

This guide provides a detailed description about the purpose of and how to conduct the School Wellness Investigation. It includes examples, scoring instructions, and FAQs.

Six Steps Guide

This resource provides information on the Six Steps and how a school can become a Touchdown School.

This tool provides tips on how to publicize your program and its successes, both locally and with a wider audience.

Student Certificate of Achievement

Have an awesome student whose Fuel Up to Play 60 contributions you'd like to recognize? Download this certificate, customize it, and present it to your student to honor their hard work!

This resource explains what students can report on the Dashboard, how they earn Points, what they collect, & how they achieve Levels.

This resource explains the purpose and benefits of collecting polling data. Use the ideas here and the related customizable polls to help you plan your Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Plays.

Need outside support or supplies for your Healthy Eating or Physical Activity Play or an event? These tips will help you find the right way to reach out to businesses in your community.

This resource provides information on how to motivate and encourage students to take an active role in Fuel Up to Play 60. Students want to make a difference. Use this resource to help you engage them in meaningful ways.

Do you want to get important members of your community — such as public officials, local celebrities, business owners and neighbors — involved in your program? Use these tips to help you talk about Fuel Up to Play 60 with people in your community and get them excited about joining your efforts.

A video can be a great way to take your Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Plays further and show off your successes to others. Use these tips to help you make your video a crowd pleaser!

This resource, developed from GENYOUth’s full report, The Wellness Impact: Enhancing Academic Success through Healthy School Environments, can be used to present your case to school administrators, nutrition professionals and others in your school about why a school breakfast program is so important and how your school can increase access for all students.