Author : Michele Christopher-Ipaktchian
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Obesity in children
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Book Description
The prevalence of childhood obesity, particularly among disadvantaged children, continues to be a growing public health concern. In an effort to address this problem, the Marilyn Magaram Center at California State University, Northridge was awarded a three-year housing and urban development (HUD) grant to promote healthy lifestyle and eating behaviors among children of lower income households through the implementation of a garden-based program, nutrition education, physical activity, and physical education. The intention of this project was to develop and evaluate the manual of lesson plans that were created for both the in-class and hands-on gardening education for 1st and 2nd graders at Cohasset Elementary School located in Van Nuys, California. These lessons were evaluated using a pilot qualitative evaluation tool, which was designed to collect educators' feedback to help make the lessons more teacher centered, and fulfill California mandated academic standards for subjects like English-language arts, health, history-social science, mathematics, physical education, science, visual performing arts, and world language. The ultimate goal of this evaluation was to set the stage for the long-term sustainability of this project, which may help attain the main goal of the larger project, which was to increase children's fruit and vegetable intake, with the main objective of decreasing the prevalence of childhood obesity.