Health Teaching Plan and Classroom Presentation Research

HEALTH TEACHING PLAN AND CLASSROOM PRESENTATION
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Health Teaching Plan and Classroom Presentation
Introduction
Child nutrition education initiatives enable teachers to develop the flexibility required in offering fun activities that last between 5-15 minutes and also fit within a variety of classroom subjects. On the other hand, the inclusion of extension activities provides additional options that enhance the quality of teaching required in reinforcing nutritional education among kindergarten children. This paper seeks to review the health framework of California Public Schools under the CA Education Code CEC 49426.
Statement of Problem and Justification for Teaching
It is essential for teachers to determine the relevance of nutrition and its impact on the kindergarten children’s brain development, social behaviors, and cognition (Fetro, Givens, & Carroll, 2011). This necessitates the need to develop approaches aimed at aiding the teachers in ensuring that their nutritional programs adhere to the standards of federal nutritional guidelines as established in CA Education Code CEC 49426.
A justification of this is evident in the fact that there are existing relationships between the brain functions of children aged 5-7 and nutrition as detailed by Hollar, et.al (2012). This author establishes the fact that chemical messengers that function within the brain's neurotransmitters are affected by the metabolic processes in the body, an aspect that details the fact that the brain is affected by nutrition (Peralta, Dudley, & Cotton, 2016). Given this, school teachers and nurses need to facilitate and strengthen their nutritional education programs in a bid to improve and protect the health of children as established in the CA Education Code CEC 49426.
Teaching Outline
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Date of Implementation: January 2 2017Topic: BMI and how it is important for Children aged 5-7Groups: Children, Parents, Teachers, School NursesMain Goal of Lesson:
1. Establish the manner in which BMI relates to the health of the children and determines the percentiles for children who have healthy weights and overweight’s.
2. Determine how to use the BMI Tracking Cards in monitoring the children&aci...