Childhood Obesity: Learn the Facts

Lesson Plan 2 Childhood Obesity: Learn the Facts

Objectives To define childhood obesity and the health risks associated with children who are overweight or obese.

Vocabulary Obesity – increased body weight caused by excessive accumulation of fat. (10 min) BMI – measurement of percentages of fat and muscle mass in the human body. (weight in Kilo)/(height in Have students help define meters) However, people with large amounts of muscle mass, such as athletes, may have a large BMI but have these terms. It can be relatively little body fat. Why? - Because muscle weighs more than fat! done at the beginning or Heart/Cardiovascular Disease – Cardiovascular disease is a group of problems that occur when the heart and throughout each lesson blood vessels aren't working the way they should. Remember that your heart is a muscle. If you want it to be strong, you need to exercise it and eat a variety of healthy foods and avoid foods high in unhealthy fats. High Blood Pressure – it refers to a health condition in which the heart must work harder to pump blood throughout your arteries, which increases your chance of stroke and heart attack. High blood pressure is twice as common in obese adults than those of a healthier weight. Diabetes – Diabetes mellitus is sometimes called "sugar diabetes." When someone has diabetes, his or her body doesn't use glucose properly. Glucose, a sugar, is the main source of energy for the body. Glucose levels are controlled by a hormone called insulin, which is made in the pancreas. In diabetes, the pancreas does not make enough insulin (type 1 diabetes) or the body can't respond normally to the insulin that is made (type 2 diabetes). Asthma is a condition that affects a person's airways, which are also called breathing tubes or bronchial (say: brong-kee-ul) tubes. These tubes lead from the windpipe, or trachea (say: tray-kee-uh), into the lungs. MA Frameworks Health Grades 6, 7, 8 Strand: Physical Health Topic: Growth and Development 1.8: Describe the influence of health habits on growth and development Topic: Disease Prevention 8.5: Identify ways individuals can reduce risk factors related to communicable and chronic disease Art Strand: Elements and Principles of Design Topic: Observation, Abstraction, Invention, and Expression 3.5: Create symbolic artwork by substituting symbols for objects, relationships, or ideas Activity One ** If this applies to your school: If you have the space available and you feel as though you need a less (10min) academic way to do lesson plans The first activity will always consist of exercising. Supplies Needed Instructions: Explain that these exercises are being done to show students how to properly work out and that if Hand Out: Week Two: any student feels uncomfortable doing them they can just watch. This week we will go over warm-ups and Warm up and stretching stretches. Have each student stand up and spread out so that they can rotate their arms in a large circle and not hit one another. Show each exercise then ask them to do it along with you. Activity Two You Are What You Eat-Self Portrait Collage (25 min) Instructions: Talk with students about how important it is to have a healthy diet and a positive view of oneself. Supplies Needed Explain that at their age the view can be challenging. Ask the students to create a self-portrait collage only using Self-Portrait info sheet their favorite food items and letters/words that describe who they are. Have them try to express the personality Paper traits that they like in themselves (words that can be suggested are: happy, pretty, smart, funny, healthy, etc.) Crayons or markers No human face features or hair will be used-only features made of food and letters/words. For example, a pear Glue can be a nose, apples for cheeks, cereal box for a chest, word for a smile, etc. The self-portrait can a frontal view, magazines side view, or full body image. Crayon can also be incorporated.

Pass out supplies. Be sure to tell them to tear out pictures for the magazines. Also mention that the less mess they make the less mess they have to clean up afterwards. Have them put their names on the back of the picture, hang them up were all can see and have them try to guess who is represented.

Learning Moment/Teachback Q’s (5 min): “How does the food you eat affect who you are and the things you do?”

Activity Three Obesity Discussion (25 min) Instructions: Using the information provided, discuss the numbers, definition, and health problems associated with childhood obesity. Students will use computers and visit the BMI Percentile Calculator for Children and Teens at http://kidshealth.org/kid/ and do other research on Body Mass Index and obesity and transcribe all of the information onto the website. Supplies Needed Supporting information on Learning Moment/Teachback Q’s (5 min):“Why are the choices we make today important to our good childhood obesity. health in the future? BMI handout

Reflection Journal Question (10 min): “Pick one meal you eat on an average day (breakfast, lunch or dinner) and write down everything you eat… then write down things you could eat instead to be healthier.”

Sources: www.letsmove.org, Kids Dictionary of Medical Terms at www.kidshealth.org