sedentary behavior (2023)

Sedentary behavior refers to activities that use very little energy while you are awake. Examples of sedentary behavior include:

• extended session,
• TELEVISION,
• ride a bus or car,
• playing passive video games,
• playing on the computer and
• sitting in a car seat or stroller.

For optimal health benefits for children and adolescents ages 5 to 17, physical activity should be high and sedentary lifestyle low, with adequate sleep every day. A healthy 24-hour day includes:

• Sweating (moderate to vigorous physical activity)
  • An accumulation of at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day, including a variety of aerobic activities. Vigorous physical activity and muscle and bone strengthening activities should be incorporated at least three times a week.
• Step (light physical activity)
  • Several hours of a variety of structured and unstructured light physical activities.
• Sleep
  • Uninterrupted sleep 9-11 hours per night for ages 5-13 and 8-10 hours per night for ages 14-17 with consistent sleep and wake times.
• sitting (sedentary behavior)
  • Less than two hours of recreational screen per day
  • Session limited for long periods of time.

Benefits of reducing students' sedentary behavior

There are many benefits to children and students of sitting less, including:

• maintain a healthy body weight,
• best in school
• strengthening of self-confidence,
• have more fun with friends,
• improving your physical condition and
• have more time to learn new skills.

Reduce sedentary behaviors during the school day

Classroom-based programs that provide activity breaks after long periods of sitting can improve fitness, reduce medication use, and preserve class time and academic performance.

Tips for an active break

• Set up fitness stations in hallways.
• Plan a walking schedule for the runner and measure it to measure the distance.
• Play music and invent dance steps.
• Tocar Just Dance^MTin the classroom or gym to allow as many students as possible to participate.
• Play active games like: Build a circuit in the gym.
  • dance freeze
  • simon diz
  • red light, green light
• Have an open gym to play freely with equipment like basketballs and jumping ropes.

Screen time and sedentary behavior

When discussing the health benefits of physical activity, it is important to include the topic of reducing screen time for students during free time. As an educator, you can be a positive role model when it comes to how much screen time your students spend each school day.

The Canadian Health Measures Survey (2012-2013) reported that 15% of 3- to 4-year-olds meet the guideline of less than an hour of screen time per day. Twenty-four percent of the two children, ages 5 and 11 and 12 and 17, met the guideline of two hours or less of recreational screen time per day. There is always room for improvement when it comes to reducing the amount of screen time a student has in their daily lives.

The Canadian Sedentary Behavior Guidelines recommend:

• 0 to 2 years
  • Zero hours a day.
• 2 to 4 years
  • No more than an hour a day.

Canada's 24-hour movement guidelines recommend:

• 5 to 17 years
  • No more than two hours a day. Less screen time is associated with positive health benefits.

Questions to ask students about screen time:

• Question: What is screen time?
  • Answer: Television, video games, computers and portable electronic devices.
• Question: Why is limiting screen time so important?
  • Answer: Sitting in front of a screen for more than two hours a day can have negative health consequences and take time away from physical activity. Canadian children spend approximately 7 hours and 48 minutes in front of screens (i.e. televisions, computers and smartphones).
    
• Question: What can you do instead of sitting in front of a screen?
  • Answer: Ask the children to talk about some of their favorite physical activities and write them on the board, whiteboard or graph paper, or write them on their own pieces of paper.
• Question: Can you play active video games?
  • Answer: While active video games require movement, physical activities such as sports, outdoor games, martial arts, and dance encourage social interaction, foster leadership development, and allow children to participate in a wide range of activities. physical activities.

resources

• Canadian 24-hour exercise guidelines for children and youth: an integration of physical activity, physical inactivity and sleep
• create your best day: An interactive web tool to help students learn about Canada's 24 Hour Movement Guidelines in a fun way.
• stake:A good resource for parents looking for ways to encourage their children to be more active and students can use this site for information on cycling to school. This site also contains links to information on developing a walking school bus.
• Ontario Sports and Health Education Association:The Resources section of this site provides resources to teach active and healthy living. These resources include lesson plans, supplements, and activities for grades K through 12. The site also offers curriculum resources for grades 1 through 8, including rubrics, a video series, a poster series, and resources to include children with disabilities in physical education. Programs Each school board has its own password to access lesson plans.
• Health Canada: Offers advice on how children and young people can become more active. This site also includes a section for educators with detailed activity plans for healthy eating and physical education. These plans include the purpose of the activity, assessment tools, and extension activities.
• Department of Health and Long Term Care: Provides tips to help children and teens become more physically active. Provides links to community programs and services.
• Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology CCSEP:Links zum Canadian Manual of Guidelines for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors.
• Die Ontario Association for the Support of Physical and Health Educators: Provides resources and information for teachers about health and physical education curriculum. Resources are created by teachers for teachers.
• Canadian Indoor Recreation Association: Provides a variety of physical activities and ideas at school to encourage, encourage and develop an active life and physical competence.
• play sports: Includes a database where teachers can find exercise maps based on Ontario's health and physical education curriculum. These cards provide step-by-step instructions, suggest adjustments to make activities more or less challenging, and provide information on which concepts/strategies/skills to emphasize throughout the activity. The games are based on the development of physical competence using the 'educational games for understanding' approach.
• Physical Education and Health Education Canada: Provides a range of resources that can be used to improve the physical education skills of children and young people through play and sports.
• Canadian Institute for Fitness and Lifestyle Research: Provides reports on research findings on physical activity in school settings. Their report, "Exercise Programming, Curriculum, and Instruction," provides a particularly comprehensive overview of this topic.
• Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity: Provides information on how to make Canada's sports and fitness system gender-responsive. The information on this site can be used by parents, teachers and coaches.
• Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology / Canadian Guide to Physical Activity: Provides information on the Canadian Guidelines for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior and the Canadian Guidelines for 24-Hour Physical Activity for Children and Adolescents Ages 5-17.
• lifetime canadian sport: Provides information on basic physical education. It also includes resources for teachers, including lesson plans, activities, and posters about physical activity and healthy eating. Features are divided by age and target body part (eg heart, muscles, etc.).
• kingston takes action: Provides physical activity opportunities for Kingston residents. Contains a list of parenting resources, including a list of places to stay active in Kingston.
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada:Features numerous resources for educators, including heart-healthy modules and lesson plans (grades 1-8), activity sheets, suggested APD activities, and cross-curricular plans to integrate physical activity into subject areas such as language arts, math and science (grades 1-8).K-6).
• hiking in ontario: This site has a resource booklet for teachers as part of its "Young Walkers Program". The booklet costs $50 and includes lesson plans and activity sheets based on the Ontario curriculum. Some example lesson plans are available free of charge. It's also a good resource for parents who want to take their kids out for a walk or hike.
• The resource center for the best start: Provides the necessary tools to encourage and promote physical activity in children aged 0 to 6 years. Inside, you'll find a searchable database of over 100 fun and easy games and activities for preschoolers. In addition to information for professionals, there are resources and strategies for parents to help increase their children's physical activity levels.