THE EVENT - September 2012

The Global Children's Challenge™ engages children at a classroom level to record their activity level, keep healthy and take part in a virtual walk around the world learning about health, nutrition, exercise and the places they visit over the 7 weeks of the event. The 2012 challenge begins Wednesday 19th September and finishes Wednesday 7th November.

The 'virtual' journey around the world has a factual discovery focus, allowing kids to learn about other countries, towns, cities, and the day-to-day lives of similar aged children from different cultures all around the world. As a learning experience, the course locations include information and facts on geography, history, social science, human society, cultural difference, the environment as well as lots of the 'popular culture' that upper primary/elementary students love.

STEP BY STEP - HOW DOES IT WORK?

• The event kicks off in Wednesday 19th September 2012
• Students receive a pedometer
• They wear their pedometer every day, for 7 weeks (both at school and at home)
• Students are recommended to aim for 15,000 steps per day by being as active as possible
• Each day they record their step count in the step-by-step booklet provided
• These steps are entered into the Global Children's Challenge™ website as a class average, so the class works as a team
• Your class will explore over 50 locations across the world
• At each location, your class will learn about the history, geography and culture
• Your class can compare your performance on the leaderboard
• A statistics page highlights achievements and milestones
• The more active your class, the further you progress

The Global Children's Challenge™ is a ready-made class project that is both educational and lots of fun for the kids. With a nurturing, supportive approach, it helps address activity levels without the danger of offending or disenfranchising students who are sensitive to already being overweight, obese or inactive. Most importantly, it makes exercise fun and sustainable for all children regardless of their fitness level, sporting prowess, body shape, environment, or previous resistance to being more active. The 7 week event is the platform to instil the habit and importance of daily exercise for the rest of their lives. Equally, it provides an entertaining and integrated way to get your students up and motivated, so they're keen to learn and are more receptive as a result.

Read the Teachers Guide, including Rules and FAQs.

See the Children’s Challenge in the Media here.

PLEASE NOTE

The Global Children's Challenge^™ uses English (U.K.) as its standard language.