Success Stories

Walk On! Teachers Talk Back

Fifth-Grade Student, Bustoz Elementary
I participated in the Walk On! Challenge. It was great! I persevered through the whole challenge and got over a million steps. I learned a lot about myself. Thank you for the prizes. Thank you very much!

Christy Birch, Tempe
I just wanted to thank the Walk On! program. What a cool idea to offer iPods to encourage physical activity from these older kids. More and more, I see older children in our community playing video games instead of riding bikes, watching TV or playing on the computer instead of participating in sports, and choosing to eat a bag of chips and a soda for lunch instead of a balanced meal.

Great job on thinking of a simple way to get these kids moving!

Isabel Neuman, Phoenix
We have started our program. We're off and walking! In addition to your poster, we are tracking our steps and miles on a daily basis and plotting these out on a line plot; figuring mean, median, and mode each day; discussing range, gaps, outliers, etc. A real lesson in data gathering as well as a healthy program! Great job, thanks, Isabel

Carmen Sterner, Cave Creek
The district has highly encouraged we participate in this program. We were pleased to tell them we already were planning on it.