How to Meet the Goal of Preventing Childhood Obesity

PSY 230
Module 06: Discussion - Preventing Childhood Obesity
Purpose:
This assignment will deepen your ability to think critically about health and nutrition in early and middle childhood, as well as school, family, and community issues.
Directions:
Note: You will not be able to see other posts until you submit your own work.
For this assignment, you will create a discussion board post and respond to the posts of two other students.
Part 1
First, read the sections in our textbook on childhood obesity. Next, browse through the website for Let's Move @ https://letsmove(dot)obamawhitehouse(dot)archives(dot)gov. The website is no longer active, but was started as part of President Obama's Task Force on Childhood Obesity and offers numerous suggestions on how to fight childhood obesity.
For your first post, respond to the following:
You are the principal of an urban elementary school with students in Kindergarten through 8th grade. Many of the students come from families with limited financial resources. You are meeting with parents who are concerned about a recent survey that found a high percentage of students in your county are obese. The parents start to debate, with one group of parents blaming the others for faulty parenting and the other group of parents staunchly defending the position that obesity is in the genes. Another parents starts blaming you and school lunches. It's time for you to take control of the meeting. Write an essay that includes 1) what you would tell the parents to educate them on the factors that contribute to childhood obesity, and 2) your proposed plan to fight childhood obesity in your school and community. Your plan should include 3-5 practical strategies for the school, community, and/or families to implement. These ideas can be your own or based on something you learned in the textbook, on the Let's move website, or in another source you find. Be sure to cite your sources.
Part 2
Next, you'll read and reply to at least two other student posts. Your reply should be relevant, substantive, and respectful. Your reply needs to extend the original post through additional sources or examples, ask questions, and/or challenge the original post in a respectful manner.
You will not be able to read other student posts until you have posted your own work!
Post your discussion:
• Click the Reply button below to post your introduction in the discussion forum.
• When finished, click the Post Reply button.
• You can also find this discussion forum by clicking the Discussions link in Course Navigation.
Grading:
This assignment is worth 20 points. Late work is not accepted.
Your own post - containing your strategies - is worth 10 points. This part of the assignment will be graded based upon the depth of your strategies. Your replies to at least two other students are worth an additional 10 points (5 points each).
Additionally, assignments are always graded on the quality of writing. You are encouraged to spell check and proofread your work as poor writing will result in up to a 10% (2 pt) grade reduction.
Written assignments (in any discipline) require both in-text and full reference citations. This is how you let the reader know where you obtained your information and is an important component to include in all college written work. Quoted material and paraphrased material require the use of in-text and full reference citations. For assistance with this requirement, please see the APA Folder in the Assignment section. Failure to include proper citations will result in a 10% grade reduction (1-2 points) on each assignment.