Action
Research Project Title: Obesity Rising? Can next year’s students compete with this
years’?
Number of AR Project Documented Hours: 20 hours
AR
Project Summary (at least 250 words): The research
portion of this project is over. I have
added new types of exercises into the curriculum, administered the fitnessgram
standardized tests for spring and fall, and have collected all the data from
these tests. I currently have to compute
all the data onto the computer, find literature that supports my findings, and
finally write up the report. I can’t
wait to see the results and compare from previous years. I am very curious to find out how the
students have progressed, and if there is a change in fitness levels from year
to year. Once my questions have been
answered, I plan on bringing this information to the board of education. Hopefully this information will make them
aware of the problem we have right in our own district. This awareness can bring more support to our
department and therefore will show the community and parents of these children,
that health and physical education is just as important, if not more, than some
of the so called “core” classes. I have
found that over the years, administration and parents have thought of health
and physical education as just “gym.” Support is not provided, care is not
given if students are pulled from these classes for other things, students are
not held accountable if they fail, and there is just this laissez-faire
attitude about the whole subject. Yet,
these are subjects are topics that make children become adults. It is the back bone of life and helps create
responsible, healthy people.
