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What is the Live Outside the Box Challenge?

The Live Outside the Box (LOTB) Challenge (previously known as TV Turn-off Week and Pause To Play) aims to create a level of awareness and self assessment by children, youth and their families about their physical activity time and sedentary behaviours. The basic concept? Limit the amount of sedentary behaviour, e.g. time spent in front of a TV, a computer, playing with electronic game devices, or sitting in a vehicle, and replace it with physical activity and active transportation. Please visit
http://activehealthykids.ca/  for the 2011 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth and the Ontario Report Card Supplement

Teachers are encouraged to run the Challenge in their own classrooms more than once during the school year, or over a period of three weeks. Students should take the "Success Tracker" form home and chart their activity.

• During Week 1 the students would track their usual behaviour (i.e. time spent active and time spent sedentary). As they track their day, they will start to realize how much time they are spending doing physical activities and how much time they are sedentary.
• Then during Week 2, in the classroom, the students would compare their levels of physical activity against the Canadian Physical Activity guidelines for Children (5-11) and Youth (12-17). They could also plot their results, and make a plan of what they would change about their behaviour.
• Finally, in Week 3 the students would implement their own plans and track their new behaviour.

What does the LOTB Challenge look like?

To discover if you would like to run the Challenge.
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Why participate?

• help your students realize how much physical and sedentary time they engage in each day.
• create an awareness to be more physically active or the need to maintain an already active lifestyle.
• discover more physical activity tips from the Public Health Agency of Canada .