Health

The percentage of youth who are overweight has more than tripled in the past 30 years. Physical activity provides immediate and short-term benefits for children. Increased physical activity results in a reduction of the percentage of body fat allowing students to live a healthy life. Increased activity also reduces blood pressure and improves the blood lipid profile for high health-risk children. Providing weighting-bearing activities offer bone mineral density benefits that carry over into adulthood. There are many ways to be healthy and many different health skills to practice.

As a Physical Education teacher I plan on practicing healthy routines and teaching my students the importance of being active and staying active as adults. I want to develop activities contracts for my students that teach the students to monitor their daily activity patterns as well as to maintain and strengthen their nutrition. A website called MyPyramid for Kids explains helpful eating to children. This site has tips, lesson plans, and coloring sheets to help the students understand nutrition. As a future teacher teacher I would want this website to be displayed so that children have access to it as well as parents. Active children and children aware of nutritional meals are more likely to become healthy and active adults.