MyActivity Pyramid Pilot

Robin GammonAssistant 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 email 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??