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”

Version #2 – Pilot version

Pilot Program NPAs volunteered to help pilot An 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

Sites visited

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.

Final Version

Final Version-Back

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

Questions??