Materials for Adults
Use VERB Campaign materials to promote the importance of youth physical activity to parents and other adults.
Time For Kids Mini-Magazines
Download these mini-magazines to remind parents that 60 minutes of activity is necessary to ensure balance in their child's life, and it's as easy as "play." The mini-magazines inspire parents to be creative and carve out options for play every day and any way.
Mini-Magazines
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Time For Kids Family Mini-magazine
(pdf 790K)
Also available as txt.
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Time For Kids Parents Mini-magazine
(pdf 1MB)
Also available as txt.
Tip Sheets
Use these one-page handouts with parents, teachers, and organizations for tips on how they can help tweens (children aged 9-13) make physical activity a part of everyday life.
Handouts
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Tips for Teachers (PDF 285K) Also available in English as HTML. |
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Tips for Parents (PDF 280K) Also available in English as HTML. |
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Tips for Organizations (PDF 227K) Also available as HTML. |
Active Children, Active Families brochures
These brochures provide tips for parents to encourage children to be physically active. They include ideas to make activity part of a daily routine, use television time wisely, and advocate for neighborhood improvements to support physical activity.
Download the brochure and distribute to parents by sending home with students or via the PTA. Available for multiple audiences: General Market, American Indian, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian.
Handouts
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English (PDF 820K) Also available as HTML. |
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Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, English (PDF 820K) Also available in English as HTML. |
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Hispanic (PDF 3.2Mb) Also available in English as HTML. |
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American Indian (PDF 530K) Also available as HTML. |
Planning Guides and Activity Tips
VERB in Your Community
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Designing a Successful VERB Scorecard Campaign in Your Community
This publication guides the reader through the process of designing
a program that gets their community (including businesses,
non-profits, and schools) involved in promoting physical
activity among 9 to 13 year olds. This 22-page, easy-to-read
guide provides background on VERB, explains the scorecard
program, and provides suggestions that assist the reader in
modifying the program to fit their particular community. 
Having A Successful Physical
Activity Event:
Your guide to making physical activity appealing to 9 to 13 year
olds
Community-based organizations are
integral to motivating kids to be active. By having local
physical activity events, communities can take advantage of the
interest that kids have in VERB. A local event could take many
shapes and forms, but for it to appeal to tweens, the emphasis
must be on fun.
Producing a community–wide VERB Activity Zone event is a great way to bring the VERB campaign to your community. Health fairs have long been an effective way to introduce adults to the importance of health screenings and preventive health measures. That, however, does not work for kids. Kids are interested in what is cool and fun. That is what a community–wide VERB Activity Zone event is all about.
Documents on this page
are available in Portable Document Format (PDF). Learn about viewing and
printing PDFs with
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Reader.
- Page last reviewed: August 1, 2007 Historical Document
- Page last updated: August 1, 2007
- Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health
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