EDUA 5544 Health, Wellness, and Fitness
HEALTH, WELLNESS, AND FITNESS: A NEW LOOK
In 2008, the US government conducted a study that found that if the obesity epidemic in America continues as it has for the past thirty years, 86% of Americans will be overweight and 50% of those will be obese by 2030 . Programs like Michelle Obama’s "Let’s Move!" campaign have made positive gains and childhood obesity is decreasing, but there are still hundreds of thousands of overweight children and teens in our country. In addition, our society is more stimulating and stressful than ever, contributing to the incidence of childhood depression, anxiety, and attention disorders.
This course provides activities for the elementary, middle, and high school classroom that span multiple dimensions of health and wellness. The teacher will learn techniques to foster students’ emotional wellbeing, nutritional health, and physical fitness, as well as methods to address the teacher’s own health and wellness.