INTRODUCTION

On this page we are publishing the introduction of our project in which our teacher and some of us explain what it is about.

Introduction by: Miss Pilar

This project was about encouraging health and good nutrition habits.

Our questions were:

What is obesity?

What factors contribute to overweight and obesity?

What problems are caused by obesity?

How can we prevent obesity?

The main objectives of this project were:

 To lead Fourth Graders to understand what obesity is and what problems it causes.

To help them develop technology skills by learning different computer programs.

This topic was chosen due to the fact that we as educators are aware that Childhood overweight and obesity should be of particular concern to parents, teachers and health workers for various reasons. During the project the students learned that being obese brings both, physically and psychologically repercussions to children who are overweight.

One main goal of our project was to motivate and encourage students from our school to be fit and healthy.

DISCUSSION

Forty students participated in the project, they were divided in groups and each group chose a name and a slogan.

A task was assigned to each group every two weeks, and each member had to hand in the task to his/her group president and publish it in his/her personal Think  Quest page.

Students learned that in order to prevent some illnesses such as diabetes, young people should learn how to prepare nutritionally balanced and inexpensive meals. For this reason they prepared healthy meals and they presented their recipes through short movies. They also presented their recipes using the iPhoto Program. 

INTRODUCTION

Childhood Obesity Project

By: Fernanda Castro

This Project is about childhood obesity

To do the Project we will work with different tools:

·      Microsoft Word

·      Microsoft Power Point

·      Paint

·      Picnik

·      ThinkQuest

·      IPhoto

·      Photo Booth

·      iMovie

·      Create a Graph

We will work in teams of five.

We will  investigate in internet and we   will take notes in a conference we are going to attend about obesity.

We will use a lot of technology.