Blue Jackets at School in partnership with OhioHealth

Welcome to the Blue Jackets At School program in partnership with OhioHealth!

- Enroll your school or classroom today by visiting www.BlueJacketsatSchool.com
- Download the Blue Jackets Book Jackets Educator's Starter Kit presented by Univar (coming soon)
- View the Blue Jackets At School Teacher's Guide

The Columbus Blue Jackets invite you to capture the excitement of hockey in your classroom with the Blue Jackets At School program, in partnership with OhioHealth.

Blue Jackets At School is an exciting hockey themed resource designed to add a fun new twist to specific components of the Ohio’s Academic Content Standards.

This resource offers engaging classroom ready lesson plans and activities in the areas of language, social studies, science and health/physical education. Each lesson plan and activity features a Columbus Blue Jackets player and/or Stinger the mascot that will capture your students’ imagination and will help you make learning more fun!

Highlights of the 2010 - 2011 Blue Jackets at School Program

NEW Civil War 150th Anniversary Lesson Plans: To commemorate the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War, these lesson plans will teach your students about various aspects of the Civil War while connecting back to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

UPDATED Primary and Intermediate Grade Book Jackets Reading Program: To continue to encourage your students to read more, the successful Book Jackets Program presented by Univar has been revised to reflect updated goals for primary and intermediate grade levels.

Book Jackets presented by Univar
The successful Columbus Blue Jackets Book Jackets program presented by Univar is a reading incentive program established in 2000 to encourage students in grades K-8 to spend more of their free time reading. The program is easy to implement and helps your students become All-Star readers with updated reading goals and the ability to win great Blue Jackets prizes! View the Book Jackets Educator's Starter Kit (coming soon).

Curriculum Content 
Skate your way through the school year with the Columbus Blue Jackets curriculum based lesson plans and activities. Lesson plans are subject specific and broken down into 4 segments to coincide with the game play in hockey: 1st Period, 2nd Period, 3rd Period, and overtime.

Language
Have your students test their reading, writing and comprehension skills with the language lesson plans. These include Stinger the mascot, the Columbus Blue Jackets players and the commemoration of the 150th
anniversary of the Civil War. Your students will hone their language skills through stories, comprehensive questions and participating in classroom-ready activities.

Social Studies
Your students will skate through history by learning about the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Civil War. They
can also become geography All-Stars by completing the lesson plans featuring Blue Jackets players R.J Umberger, and Fedor Tyutin.

Science
Using the technology behind ice rinks, the instruments used to measure the thickness of ice or the sharpness of skates, and other hockey related observations and technologies, your students will glide through forces of motion and the states of matter like a pro!

Physical Education
Do your students ever wonder what it takes to be a hockey player? See if your students have the ability by implementing these curriculum-based lesson plans. Your students will be asked to record their eating habits, learn about the US Food Pyramid, develop a meal plan, complete OhioHealth’s Jackets Fitness Challenge and much more!

Contests
In addition to the many curriculum activities available, Blue Jackets At School has exciting contests for teachers and students. Participating is easy! Any educator who emails info@BlueJacketsAtSchool.com and provides an outline of how they plan to use the program for the upcoming school year will be entered into a contest to win a Stinger school visit!

Register your school or classroom today at: www.BlueJacketsAtSchool.com.

Feedback:

“This year I held the program for my entire school (k-8). I offered weekly prizes to all students. Our students and parents loved it! I talked CBJ all year with those students who are fans. Thanks!”

“Thank you for this incredible program which helps motivate my students to become lifelong readers!”

“This is a wonderful program for students!”

“Our school definitely wants to do this again and again! Thanks for doing this for our kids.”

“It’s an awesome program! Thanks for doing this for our students!”

"I am an elementary school teacher at Kidder Elementary in Brunswick, Ohio. I printed the Blue Jackets Fitness Challenge student packets and teacher direction of your website at the beginning of the school year and incorporated it into my PE class at the end of September. The challenge went over extremely well with the students...they were very competitive with themselves to do better each time. I stressed the importance of self improvement and not to worry about what the person next to them was doing! They loved the speed run the most and I hung a wall of fame above the gym office door with the fastest female and male in the school. I definitely will be doing the challenge with them each year."
Heather - Kidder Elementary

View the 08-09 school kickoff video

For more details and to access this FREE, state-wide, cross-curriculum based resource and to find out how you can WIN cool prizes for your school, visit www.BlueJacketsAtSchool.com, call the Blue Jackets at 614-246-4168, or e-mail kfurman@BlueJackets.com.