MyActivity Pyramid Pilot

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MyActivity Pyramid Pilot

• Robin Gammon
• Assistant Curriculum
• Staff Training Coordinator

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Kids Activity Pyramid History

• The original Kids Activity Pyramid based on Food
  Guide Pyramid
• Need new activity pyramid to look like new
  MyPyramid

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MyActivity Pyramid-Version 1

• Draft introduced at May Conference by Steve Ball

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MyActivity Pyramid

• NPA feedback
• Feedback was documented

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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

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Comments from Annual Conference-Continued

• Add water
• Add bike with helmet
• Change Lifestyle Activities to Everyday
  Activities

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Version 2 Pilot version
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Pilot Program

• NPAs volunteered to help pilot
• An email was sent asking for available dates to
  pilot
• Pilot - last three weeks of June

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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

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Sites visited
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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

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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?

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Pilot Questions-cont.

• What is happening at the top of the pyramid?
• What is the water for?
• Anything else you want to tell me?

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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.

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Consistent comments, questions

• The boy that is chained to television is fixing
  it.
• Is taking pictures of plants an activity?

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Changes made

• Added soccer
• Deleted girl in the back catching bugs
• Fixed skater boys toes
• Put water bottle in the hand of a boy and on the
  bike

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Changes made-Cont.

• Deleted chain on top of the pyramid
• Deleted camera and added a watering can

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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.

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Final Version
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Final Version-Back
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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

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Questions??