Transcript On Your Feet Lose Your Seat

ON YOUR FEET
LOSE YOUR
SEAT
M E L I S S A S H AW
• Everyone that is capable and feels
okay to do so please stand up and
remain standing!
ABOUT ME
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K-12 Physical Education Major
Secondary Health Minor
Bennett and Sharp Park Elementary:
Jackson Public
• Tammi Gronski
• 1st-5th
• Everyone that is standing and feels
able to do so please do 5 jumping
jacks and remain standing!
HOW CAN I ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO MOVE?
• Less fit students, out of shape
• Behaviors/patterns
• Bathroom breaks, not wearing appropriate shoes, acting up, not
feeling well
• Increase participation, self confidence and decrease student
embarrassment
• Increase GOOD sportsmanship
 Impact words
 How to encourage students of any fitness level to participate in activity
as frequent as possible and teach them how important it is to stay
healthy by being active and eating the right foods.
• Everyone that is standing and
willing to participate please try to
touch your toes while keeping your
knees straight and not bending
them!
• Pump both arms over your head
like you are raising the roof!
• Walk in place! Thank you, now you
may have a seat!
LEARNING THROUGH MOVEMENT
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Learn through movement
• develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills
• Improves alertness (increase attention span, increase memory, better
behavior)
• Naturally they enjoy active play
• Concentrate better and achieve more academically
WHY THE NEED TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY?
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Sedentary Alternatives:
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Ride in a car or bus to school
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Less physical education
• 36 weeks = 3600 minutes
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Watch more television
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Play more sedentary games
• computer games or video games: Wii
• family and social interaction problems, behavioral problems
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Less Freedom to play outside on their own
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Recess reduced or eliminated
• 6-8 hours of sitting a day
• Fast Food
RELEVANCE
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Childhood obesity crisis
• 6.7% 1980 to 20% in 2010
• 31.2 % overweight ages 6-11
• Center for Disease Control says that soon enough
obesity will take over smoking for the leading cause of
preventable death
Physical Activity is Beneficial in:
• Reducing risk of heart failure
• Improved physical fitness
• Weight reduction
• Self-discipline
• Skill development
• Improving self-confidence
• Stress reduction
• Increase their love of school and performance in
academics
• Good health promotion
• Development of lifetime skills and activities
EVIDENCE COLLECTED/MODIFICATIONS
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Fitness testing- Students that were considered healthy vs unhealthy
• Modifications to each of the tests to help increase selfconfidence and decrease embarrassment
• Pacer-Walking
• Curl-up and Push-up: Matts
• Height/Weight:
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Sent activities home for students to do with parents or alone
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Made accommodations to reach out to all students and challenge
the less active/fit but also still challenging the active/fit end of
spectrum
• Alternating locomotive skills
• Warm-up: Minute Runs
• Groups/Odd Numbers
• Drinks
• Making sure everything I had planned each student would be
able to attempt or have a modification.
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Noticed an increase in positive sportsmanship
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200 Students (4th and 5th )
• 44 students very low end (out of
shape/less fit/could correlate to
obesity)
• 74 students middle (less fit/could
correlate to overweight)
• 82 students considered healthy
SURVEY
200 Students Surveyed (4th and 5th)
1a.)21 b.)53
10.5% 26.5%
2a.)18 b.)49
9%
24.5%
3a.)77
38.5%
c.)57 d.)38 e.)31
28.5%
19%
15.5%
c.)90 d.)19 e.)24
45%
b.)123
61.5%
9.5%
12%
TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM OF LACK OF PHYSICAL
EDUCATION AND OBESITY EPIDEMIC PARENTS
CAN:
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Join their kids in sport clubs or encourage them to have a play time every day.
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Allow the kids to choose the physical activity or sport they like
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Have a play time with their kids and include sports or activities such as Frisbee,
kick-ball or jump rope
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Ask the local community to provide recreational activities
• Parents can lead kids by example, by exercising
themselves
• Along with exercising, parents should make sure their kids have a healthy
diet which includes plenty of fruits and vegetables. Although lack of physical
education is hurting the kids, parents can minimize the impact by encouraging
kids to be physically active.
TOGETHER WE CAN ELIMINATE OBESITY ONE
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AT A TIME
• MOVE! ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYWAY
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Ongoing support
• Students are not going to make it if they are alone in facing the problem
• Low self-esteem, less confidence, under achievement
SOURCES
American Heart Association- Promoting Physical Activity in Children and Youth.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/114/11/1214.full
Critical Mass Crisis: Child Obesity. By Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/sto ry?id=4015831
Physical Education in America’s Public Schools. University of Michigan. Obesity &
Overweight Epidemic Among Children in US.
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.speregen/obesity___overweight_epidemic_among_c
hildren_in_us
Children and Physical Activity. Article by Eloise Elliott, Ph.D and Steve Sanders, Ph.D. The
Importance of Movement and Physical Activity. PBS Teachers.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/articles/physical.html
Tammi Gronski. Jackson Public Physical Education Teacher.
THANK YOU AND ANY QUESTIONS?