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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Strategies for Classroom Physical Activity in Schools

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Non-systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: November 2018

Workgroups: Physical Activity Workgroup

Schools are the most strategic and practical place for students to learn about and practice being physically active. This CDC guide describes strategies for promoting and planning classroom physical activity. It also provides a list of practical resources to help school staff implement these strategies. These strategies are important because less than one third of children and adolescents in the United States are getting the recommended 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day. 

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Objectives related to this resource (4)

Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough muscle-strengthening activity — PA‑07
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough aerobic physical activity — PA‑06
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity — PA‑08
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of children who do enough aerobic physical activity — PA‑09
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018). Strategies for Classroom Physical Activity in Schools. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/physicalactivity/pdf/2019_04_25_Strategies-for-CPA_508tagged.pdf