Ideas To Increase Enthusiasm & Participation For Your Jump/Hoops Event

1. Ideas To Increase Enthusiasm & Participation For Your Jump/Hoops Event

2. Increasing Enthusiasm & Participation • Place a thank you gift poster in every classroom • Let students use the rope/basketballs during recess and before and after school • Hold class competitions and give incentives such as extra recess, no uniforms, hat day, field trip to fun educational place, pizza parties, ect. • Create a “Wall of Honor or Tribute” to a student or faculty member who has experienced Heart Disease. Be creative and display in Gym/Media room and let the students design their own HEART in Art Class to display on the Wall • During Valentine’s Day, have students send one another Valentine telegrams for a certain amount • Incorporate heart healthy education into event – for example: aerobics with pedometers, taking your pulse, heart rate, integrating other subject areas into PE class • Recruit committee through teacher peers, PTA/PTO, parents, grandparents,community partners, and businesses that have adopted your school • Let your student council help distribute posters, make announcements during pep rallies/school reunions, make signs for your event day (EX: station posters), help distribute Thank You certificates and Thank You Gifts • Letters to parents • Put articles in weekly newspaper • Recruit student coordinators. Students are now required to fill community service hours for graduation, helping organize your event may fulfill these requirements

3. Ain’t Stopping Us Now!!!!!! Create a Honor Wall Have an honor wall with names of families who students know have been impacted by Heart Disease and Stroke. Make hearts in class, and distribute them saying, “I'm jumping in honor of_________.” Banner Competition Using the orange 2004-2005 banners, announce a competition – the classroom with the most participation in bringing in donations, get to display the new 2005-2006 banner in their classroom through the rest of the year. Red Yarn Around The Wrist In honor of those in our community who are fighting heart disease, have the students tie red yarn string around their wrists for the two weeks leading up to your event. This will serve as a reminder to talk to their families about what they are learning about in school. Coach’s Challenge Set a goal with your school. If your school reaches that goal, then the coach will dress of the opposite sex, shave/die their hair a funky color, get slimed, dunking booth, pie in the face.

4. Lunch with Coach Top class/10 fundraisers get to have a special lunch with coach/or field trip to Chuck E Cheese’s. A great opportunity for quieter, more laid back time with one of their favorite teachers Poster Contest In art class, have students design a poster that shows how they can make a difference in their own hearts by participating in Jump Rope for Heart OR how they can make a difference n the lives of others by participating in Jump rope for Heart Use The Posters The day you speak to your students about heart disease and you hand out the envelopes, give them each one of the stickers. Have them wear the sticker all day. This will serve as a reminder to their parents about the event. You can also distribute the stickers the day of event as a Thank-You. Themed Event Develop a theme for your event, like “beach party.” Encourage the kids to bring beach/pool toys, wear sunglasses, Hawaiian shirts, etc. Play beach boy music, use tropical juices as refreshments(orange, bananas, pineapple)

5. Great Ideas From Other Schools Specialty Contests During Your Event • Jumping the Longest without missing • Most difficult trick • Relay contest • Most Jumpers on a Long Rope • Jump & Race • Most Money Raised by a single student • Most single jump in one minute • Longest Double Dutch participant • Heart Trivia Games (great as a rest/water station!!!!!!!) Raffle/Door Prizes – give each child a number when they arrive. Do spontaneous drawing throughout the event for donated prizes • Let student be “Assistant PE Teacher for the Day” • Free Dress Day • School T-Shirt, pencil, etc • Top fundraising classroom gets a “Free Day” where they plan one day’s activities • Gift certificates to local stores/restaurants

6. “How To Organize Your Event” STEP #1:Choose Your Event Date & Mark it on your Calendar for the School Year • Make sure your school Date does not compete with any other fundraising date • Decide on how you want to do you event…1 day or 1 week?? STEP #2:Receive Your Materials and Review Contents (10 weeks out) • Certificates and Fundraising envelopes come in bundles of 100..easy to count • Read through your coordinator’s guide • Review your box, there might be some new materials you want to use this year STEP #3:Event Planning with Your Youth Market Director (6-8 WEEKS OUT) • This is a great opportunity to decide how you want to do your event and schedule what dates to hand out envelopes and introduce your Jump/Hoops event to your students • Use your youth Market Director as a resource!! They usually work with over 100 schools, and have seen everything. They can come up with ideas on the actual event and what’s best for your school

7. Continued…. STEP #4: Set a Goal & Begin Promoting Your Event (3-4 WEEKS OUT) • Setting a challenging yet attainable goal is important – students need to feel like their contribution, no matter how large or small, does make a difference. Goals can be either be monetary or participation goals • Communication is the KEY – find ways to communicate to your students, faculty, and families • Hang up the thank you gift posters that come with your event materials • Have discussions with your students about the importance of living a heart-healthy lifestyle • Get on the morning show and promote!!!!!!!!!!!!! Show jumping Skills!!!!!!!!!! STEP #5: Hand Out Collection Envelopes (2-3 WEEKS OUT) • Envelopes can go directly to students, or sent home to parents with a letter • Talk to students about who they may want to ask for donations, and explain to them no to go door-to-door STEP #6: Warm-Up the Jump Ropes/Basketball Skills!! (1-2 weeks out) • Practice jump rope/basketball skills with PE classes • Remind students that collection envelopes are soon due

8. Ideas To Promoting Educational Value For Jump Rope/Hoops For Heart

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10. How Your Heart Works • About a hundred times a minute, 100,000 times a day, 36.5 million times a year, your heart keeps the beat... the beat of life. That familiar thump, thump, thump tells you that your heart is doing its job pumping blood from the veins to the heart and lungs, where it is replenished with oxygen and then distributed back to the body through the arteries. How does the heart work? Read on. • The human heart is really a pump, a powerful muscle the size of your fist that circulates blood to and from the body's millions of cells. It's divided into four chambers. There are two chambers on each side with a wall-like divider between them called a septum that separates the left side from the right side. These two receiving chambers have two passageways called valves. Each side of the heart has two valves that allow blood to pass through the heart. The tricuspid valve on the right and the mitral valve on the left regulate blood flow between the atrium and the ventricle on each side. The right valve is called the pulmonary valve and it allows blood to flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary arteries, which supply the lungs. The left valve is called the aortic valve, which regulates blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta.

11. Diagram of the heart • In the normal adult, the heart pumps five liters of blood, which is recirculated continuously through the body. The blood moves from the heart into tubes called arteries, then into tiny tubes called capillaries and finally into the veins that lead back to the heart. • The entire cycle takes about 60 seconds, during which the blood brings nourishment and oxygen to all the body's cells in the tissues, organs, muscles and bones. • Here's a more complex description of the blood's journey through the body: The blood moves from the left atrium to the left ventricle through the mitral valve. As the left ventricle contracts, it pushes open the aortic valve and the blood is carried into the aorta, which distributes it to all other body organs including the heart by way of the coronary arteries. These arteries wind around the heart to keep the heart muscle supplied with oxygen and nutrients for its continuous pumping job. • As wastes are produced, they are delivered through the blood to the right atrium through the vena cava. The accumulated blood pushes open the tricuspid valve, allowing the blood to pass from the right atrium to the right ventricle. After the chamber fills, the heart contracts and the pulmonary valve opens. Blood then flows from the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery. • The pulmonary artery, which has two branches, carries blood to the right and left lungs. From the lungs, the capillary vessels carry the blood along the lungs' tiny air sacs. As the lungs breathe, carbon dioxide is passed from the body and oxygen is taken in. As this transfer occurs, the blood changes from purple or dark red to bright red. • After passing through the lungs, the blood is brought by the pulmonary veins into the left atrium. From there, the blood starts its course through the left ventricle and aorta again. ****This is a great tool to use during your PE class…you can do stations of the heart as a science integration******

12. Builds School spirit Fosters friendly Competition among schools BUILD COMMUNITY—Event can be done as a Tribute to someone in the school with heart disease Community who has experienced heart disease and stroke Creates A Partnership between your school and the American Heart Association to Educate Kids about the #1 and #3 killer – HEART DISEASE AND STROKE May be conducted as the culmination of a school wide event—for example, March Madness, and celebration of the completion of FCAT’s Raises Funds to provide EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS for teachers We Help Kids Help Kids Benefits To School

13. Logistics Are The Key Ideas Date, Location and Logistics for Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart

14. Date/Location/Logistics 4 Weeks Prior to your AWESOME Event: Promotion, Promotion, Promotion!!!!!! • Hang event/Thank you gift posters • Show the thank-you gift video(as well as any other JRFH videos you own) • Send your Jump Rope for Heart relates to living a Heart Healthy Lifestyle • Begin Jump Rope lesson plan or practice jumping rope as class warm-up • Map out a plan for your Jump Rope For Heart Event • Set a Fundraising Goal with your representative—Challenge students to reach a personal goal 3 Weeks Prior to your EXCELLENT Event: Let the Fundraising Begin! • Hand out collection envelopes • Continue to emphasize living a Heart Healthy Life • Continue teaching jump rope lessons or continue using jump rope warm-ups • Don’t forget to wear our T-Shirt!

15. Continued….. • 1 Week Prior to your SUBERB Event: It is Getting Close!! • Remind students to bring in their collection envelopes on the deadline date • Put classroom teachers’ names on the student record sheets and put these sheets in front of large envelopes (you will put students collection envelopes in this envelope) • Review your Jump Rope For Heart plan • Make sure you have a backup location in case of rain!! 1Week After your SUCCESSFUL Event: It’s Over Already? • Pat yourself (and anyone else who assisted) on the back • Applaud the students for all the heart healthy work they completed • Give the whole school a round a applause for helping save lives! • Convert all cash into check • Place checks and prize order form in lockbox envelopes • Send out envelope (prizes should arrive within 4-6 weeks)

16. Possible Event Set-UpJump Rope

17. Additional Jump Stations • Leap Frog • Hop Scotch • Low Hurdles • Number Pad (make kids jump on their phone number and enter/this will help them learn their number-good for kindergarten) • Hula Hoops • Obstacle tire/hula race • Touch the can (tie up string and run bottles/cans with beans in them) • Standing/running long jump • Vertical Jump • Bean Bag Toss

18. Possible Event Set-UpHoops

19. Remember to G-I-V-E and Your Jump Rope/Hoops Program Will Really Live!!!!! G- GOALS I- INTEREST V- VOLUNTEERS E- EXPOSURE

20. “Give a Kid a Jump Rope/Basketball and they play for a day,TEACH A KID HOW TO JUMP ROPE AND PLAY BASKETBALLand they become active, confident, and creativefor a lifetime.” -Joel Dolowich