Healthy+Schools!

Sarah and Samantha and Raquel and Brandon

Health and Wellness



=I. Description of Problem or Issue: = Health and wellness in schools is becoming a bigger and bigger topic for debate by the second. People everywhere are questioning what foods are going into their children's mouths and what other activities children are doing in school to counteract all the "bad" food they are eating. Health class curriculum has changed over the years to better educate children on healthy and unhealthy foods and the required amount of time spent in gym classes has also been changed. School food policies are more prevelant in the systems. They are removing soda and snack vending machines and replacing them with healthier options. All of these issues can be closely related to the ongoing country wide problem that is known as childhood obesity. We will be touching on each individual issue and how schools are changing their policies to try and make schools a healthier place to be.

Questions: 1. How have health and wellness policies changed over the years 2. How has health education changed over the years based on current issues such as obesity and increase in sexual activities? 3. How does food, physical activity and health education in schools effect childhood obesity? 4. How have the PE rules and regulations changed over the years and How does PE benefit students?

II. Research Summary:

 * //Sarah's Research Showed that there are a lot of changes taking place across many schools in the country about how they should be teaching students of the health risks of eating unhealthy. Sexual education is becoming a more talked about topic, especially now that schools are changing their health education curriculum to include more sensitive topics.//**

//**Samantha's Research Showed that all schools around the country are making changes with the food they are serving. Many states have made laws regarding whaat is and is not allowed in the cafeteria.**//

//**Brandon's Research Showed that the regulations of PE students have become more strict, and that students need PE class. Despite what some experts say, it helps.**//

//**Raquel's Research showed**// **//revealed that healthy food, fitness programs and effective health awareness has a positive impact on childhood obesity. Recently the amount of research done on this topic has increased in the previous years, there are still a lot of studies being conducted to support the idea that childhood obesity needs to be prevented.//**

II. Group Product Overview:
1. Introduction: -Explain the layout of our discussion, split class into 3 or 4 groups. -Ask for participation -stretching activity to wake everyone up

2. Health: -Give found Research on topic -After: give groups different scenarios and ask if they were the parents how would they react, the more radical the better.

3. Physical: -Give found Research on topic -After: Ask Groups to come up with 5 activities that they remember doing in gym in school &why it was important for physical health &discuss

4. Food: -Give found Research on topic -After: give out rhetorical questions to each group pertaining to the food policies I found

5. Overall Conclusion: -ask them if the learned anything today that they didn’t already know -Summarize everything we talked about -Ask if there is any questions, or if interested in our articles/more info we can email them -Video &discuss 

IV. Research Questions and Reference Summaries

 * <  ||< **Research Question** ||= **Researcher** ||
 * < 1. ||< //How has health education changed based on current issues such as obesity and increase in sexual activities?// ||= Sarah Pohorilak ||
 * < 2. ||< How have health and wellness policies changed over the years? ||= Samantha Greenwald ||
 * < 3. ||< How does food, physical activity, health education in Elementary Schools effect childhood obesity? ||= Raquel McKenna ||
 * < 4. ||< __How have the rules and regulations of PE class changed over the years and how studens benifit from PE?__ ||= Brandon Feld ||