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March 31, 2014 2014 FREE COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com
Local students enjoy a healthy field trip
The Logan County Children’s Health Fair
took place on Friday. Fifth-grade students
were bused to the Lincoln Park District
SportsCenter, where they met a host of ex-
perts from health and fitness fields, as well
as medical, safety and emergency response
professionals.
Moving from station to station, the students
were challenged to do a variety of physi-
cal activities and were provided a wealth of
information.
The students were informed and encouraged
in making good life choices that would pro-
tect them from accidents or illnesses, such as
wearing a properly fitted helmet during risky
activities to prevent brain injury, and they
were given the newest nutritional guidelines.
Warm-up activities included all sorts of
fun with running games. Then the students
moved on.
One of the featured physical activities was
a giant heart course. The course demon-
strates how the heart works in carrying blood
throughout the body and the importance of
exercising the heart. Students listened to their
own resting heart rates through stethoscopes,
then worked the course and listened to their
hearts again, working harder this time.
The course included students sitting on
wheeled platforms and moving along by pull-
ing an overhead rope, using only their hands,
as well as crawling through tunnels, jumping
rope, bouncing balls while hopping through
rings, and more — a full-body workout.
Students learned what it would be like to be
blind by swinging a bat at a ball while blind-
folded.
Pictures by Jan Youngquist
