May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Never before in the history of our nation have there been so many children with health problems.
A lot of the causes of these problems can be attributed to obesity because of poor diets and lack of physical activity. Here are some facts from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance:
The percentage of young people who are overweight has more than tripled since 1980.
Children and adolescents who are overweight by age 8 are 80 percent more likely to become overweight or obese adults.
Approximately 60 percent of obese children age 5 to 10 years have at least one cardiovascular disease risk factor.
Among children and teens age 6 to 19 years, 16 percent (over 9 million young people) are overweight.
Four in 10 Mexican-American and African-American youths ages 6 to 19 are overweight or at risk of being overweight.
More than a third of young people in grades 9 to 12 do not regularly engage in vigorous physical activity.
Participation in physical activity declines as children get older.
Overall, among high school students, males are more physically active than females and white students are more active than black and Hispanic students.
BookCart Learning Activity
Copy the new BookCart learning activity (one of 800 ProQuest models) and assign it to your students—"Exercise and Physical Fitness."
BookCart learning activities provide a variety of current and historic learning resources for your students. Combine these great articles and websites with essential questions and student directions, and your students will have a ONE-STOP way to implement 21st Century learning and skills.
Stop wasting time searching and checking for relevancy, no need to when your students open an assigned BookCart. Your students can access these learning activities from school or home. Carts are an excellent way for students to keep up with your course when they are unable to attend school for an extended period of time.
Teachers or librarians can copy "Exercise and Physical Fitness" and any other BookCart learning activity by using the following procedure:
Click the BOOKCART ADMIN link at the top of the Teacher Edition.
Click the PROQUEST CARTS tab.
Type "Exercise and Physical Fitness" in the Search box.
Click the COPY icon (middle one) in the ACTIONS column to the right of this title.
Click RETURN TO MY LOCAL CARTS.
Repeat to copy another Cart of interest.
Librarians or teachers can edit this Cart to customize it for their students.
To edit each Cart for your students to use:
Click the new BookCart Title with the prefix "COPY OF".
Delete "Copy of" and then type your name in the AUTHOR boxes and your initials in the EMAIL box.
Option: edit the existing Essential Questions in the DESCRIPTION box.
Option: edit the existing Student Directions for your students to use.
Scroll down and click SAVE.
Return to My Local Carts.
Traditional Search Activity
Students should create a report of at least 150 words or a presentation of at least seven slides using information from the pathfinder below. The report should cite at least three resources. Students should address the following essential questions for critical thinking (you can substitute or add others):
Why is exercise necessary to maintain health?
What kinds of exercise are most beneficial to students?
How does age or handicap help determine the best exercise for a person?
How does exercise benefit people mentally and emotionally?
How does playing sports benefit your body?
Pathfinder
Advanced Search > Type "Exercise and Physical Fitness" in the Search box > Enter "Exercise OR Fitness in the Document Title box
Use our custom ProQuest models for written or PowerPoint reports written and PowerPoint-style reports.
ProQuest Learning: Literature Activity
May is Asian American Heritage Month. Students should address one of the four Select Study Questions at the end of the Study Pages Unit on Asian American Literature, using the pathfinder below. Students should write a report of at least 150 words that cites at least three sources.
Pathfinder
Click the Study Pages link > Literary Movement Pages > Asian American Literature
History Study Center Learning Activity
May is Physical Fitness Month. Athletes combine talent with fitness to compete in sports that are watched by billions of people around the world. Perhaps no country in the world has as many opportunities to play individual or team sports at the amateur and professional levels as the United States.
Students can learn more about the history of sports competition in the in the U.S. using HSC Study Units from the pathfinder below.
Assign students to write a report of at least 150 words or a presentation of at least seven slides that cites at least three resources. Students should browse and select resources that focus on one sport such as baseball and then address the following essential questions for critical thinking (you can substitute of add others):
How did this sport originate in the United States?
Who are some of its most storied competitors?
How does the sport of yesterday compare to today's version?
Pathfinder
Study Units tab > Type "Sports" in the Keyword(s) Search box > Click "Sports in American Society"
Use our custom ProQuest models for written or PowerPoint reports written and PowerPoint-style reports.
