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James A. Rye Samuel J. Zizzi Elizabeth A. Vitullo Nancy O'Hara Tompkins 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2005,14(5-6):521-531
The United States is experiencing an obesity epidemic: A science-technology-society public health issue tied to our built
environment, which is characterized by heavy dependence on automobiles and reduced opportunities to walk and bicycle for transportation.
This presents an informal science education opportunity within “science in personal and social perspectives' to use pedometer
technology for enhancing students' understandings about human energy balance. An exploratory study was conducted with 29 teachers
to investigate how pedometers could be used for providing academic enrichment to secondary students participating in after-school
Health Sciences and Technology Academy clubs. Frequency analysis revealed that the pedometer activities often investigated
kilocalorie expenditure and/or incorporated hypothesis testing/experimenting. Teachers' perspectives on learning outcomes
most frequently conveyed that students increased their awareness of the importance of health habits relative to kilocalorie
intake and expenditure. Pedometers have considerable merit for the regular science curriculum as they allow for numerous mathematics
applications and inquiry learning and target concepts such as energy and equilibrium that cut across the National Science Education Standards. Pedometers and associated resources on human energy balance are important tools that science teachers can employ in helping
schools respond to the national call to prevent childhood obesity. 相似文献
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Using Family Backpacks as a Tool to Involve Families in Teaching Young Children About Healthy Eating
Jisoo Hong Diane W. Bales Charlotte R. Wallinga 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2018,46(2):209-221
Children’s obesity rates have increased substantially over the past several decades, due in part to unhealthy eating habits. About 75% of preschool-aged children consume fewer fruits and vegetables than recommended for health. Because children begin developing eating habits during early childhood, obesity prevention programs are increasingly targeting young children in early childhood education (ECE) settings and are involving their families in teaching about healthy eating. The purpose of this pilot study is to assess the effectiveness of a family involvement activity known as the family backpack in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among 4- and 5-year-old children and their parents through hands-on activities that encourage them to explore and discuss fruits and vegetables at home. Forty-two families (22 experimental, 20 control) participated in the study. Families received a family backpack from their child’s ECE teacher and completed activities with their child at home during a specific week. Experimental-group backpacks contained a children’s book and three activities to encourage parent–child discussion about fruits and vegetables; control-group backpacks contained an unrelated book and activities. Children’s and parents’ fruit and vegetable consumption and frequency of serving fruits and vegetables at home were assessed using parent self-report surveys before and after completing backpack activities. Parents in the experimental group, but not the control group, reported increases in their own and their children’s fruit and vegetable consumption after completing family backpack activities. Family backpacks show promise as a tool for early childhood educators to help families reinforce and expand children’s learning and encourage healthy eating habits at home. 相似文献
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Mary Renck Jalongo 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1999,27(2):95-103
This article is a synthesis of research on the consequences of obesity for all stakeholders in the field of early childhood: young children, family members of young children, and teachers of young children. The article examines the effects of obesity on the wellness, self-esteem, peer relationships, and social status of children/families and early childhood teachers. The argument is set forth that discrimination on the basis of body size is often thinly veiled classism and racism and the paper calls for an acceptance of size diversity in the early childhood field. Practical recommendations for working with children who are seriously overweight and with families conclude the article. 相似文献
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Family‐Centered Positive Behavior Support Interventions in Early Childhood To Prevent Obesity 
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下载免费PDF全文 Positive behavior support (PBS) strategies in early childhood, which include proactively structuring environments to support and positively reinforce healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors, are critical for preventing pediatric obesity, particularly among low‐income, ethnic minority children. Existing evidence‐based family‐centered preventive interventions effectively impact parents’ use of PBS strategies. Enhancing these programs to more directly target the key mechanisms of change specific to promoting children's healthy lifestyle behaviors could serve as the foundation for the next generation of effective protocols for preventing pediatric obesity. Two established programs that target PBS that can be feasibly implemented in a variety of service delivery systems using a multi‐tiered, adaptive approach and the next steps of translation are discussed. 相似文献
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Childhood obesity and physical inactivity are serious threats to the health and wellness of our schoolchildren. Research has shown that play and physical activity are important in development, behaviour and academic achievement. Through the efforts of coordinated school health program and a Physical Education for Progress grant, a county school system in a southern state was able to construct multiple innovative playground systems at schools and combine them with various academic units in a cross-curricular effort to address the wellness needs of students. Exploratory research using pedometers, accelerometers and an observation method examined physical activity intensity levels during cross-curricular sessions. Results indicated that this type of physical activity might be a viable supplement to daily school-based physical activity needs. 相似文献
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Danielle D. Wadsworth Leah E. Robinson Karen Beckham Kip Webster 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,39(6):391-395
Engaging in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity is essential to lifelong health and wellness. Physical activity behaviors
established in early childhood relate to physical activity behaviors in later years. However, research has shown that children
are adopting more sedentary behaviors. Incorporating structured and planned physical activity breaks into classroom transition
times is an inexpensive and effective technique to increase children’s physical activity during school hours. However, this
approach has not been studied in preschool settings. The purpose of this paper is to provide a simple, cost-effective method
that incorporates structured physical activity into the preschool curriculum through classroom based physical activity breaks.
Results of a case study along with an overview of the implementation of physical activity breaks are discussed. 相似文献
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一个人的音乐智能发展时期是幼儿期。从幼儿阶段开始,幼儿便对音乐产生了浓厚的学习兴趣。而且在幼儿时期,组织开展各种各样的音乐活动,还可以促进幼儿身体、情感、个性等方面的发展。在信息时代下,将信息技术应用到幼儿园音乐活动中,具有十分重要的意义。基于此,本文重点针对信息技术与幼儿园音乐活动的有效融合进行了详细分析,以供参考。 相似文献
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Ana Schaller Lisa Oglesby Rocha David Barshinger 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):351-356
A study of Mexican immigrant mothers of young children in the AVANCE-Dallas early childhood intervention program demonstrates
that low-educational parents often exhibit ambitious attitudes about educational achievement for their children. Though they
lack an extensive academic background, which places their children at risk for low education, their positive attitude manifested
in daily pro-educational behaviors overcomes their low education level because they both motivate their children to pursue
academic success and participate in their children’s learning. The best way to capitalize on immigrant parents’ educational
drive for their children is to partner with them—either through an intervention program or through early childhood educators’
interaction with parents—by showing them how their participation in their children’s learning through concrete activities
(such as regular mother–child conversation, daily reading, and playtime activities that teach developmental skills) may increase
their chances of achieving academic success. 相似文献
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邹晓燕 《辽宁师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2014,(2):223-230
未来中国幼儿园教育将朝着更尊重幼儿身心发展特点和体现幼儿教育特色的方向发展,科学性是其集中体现。具体体现在以下六个方面:其一,教育目标是培养体智德美全面发展的具有良好个性的幼儿,表现为明理、有情、习惯好;其二,教育内容与生活结合,突出幼儿期的关键经验,特别是直接经验,为其进入小学以后的学习提供丰富的表象基础;其三,教育途径(幼儿的学习途径)的重要程度依次为一日生活、区域活动和集中教育活动;其四,教育方式(幼儿的学习方式)主要有观察比较、操作体验和同伴合作三种;其五,课程朝着更加整合化的方向发展,社会性应该作为整合的核心,以"人"的发展为主线;其六,更加重视家园合作,注重家园沟通的有效性问题,切实发挥家庭在幼儿发展中的重要作用。 相似文献
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Paula Mcmurray 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(2):271-290
The purpose of the study was to examine, using an ethnographic perspective, young children's gender behaviors. Four children, 3 to 5 years old, are described using videotaped observations of a university laboratory preschool. This study revealed, through individualprofiles of the children, that gender behaviors in early childhood are constructed by the individual interacting with her his social world. Also, gender behaviors were found to be integrated with other social processes, namely, student and peer behaviors. Finally, sociocultural and poststructuralist perspectives revealed the obvious and subtle gender behaviors of young children. Thus, researchers using ethnographic methods can explain the complexity in which children experience becoming a person . 相似文献
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Greta Griffin Freeman 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2014,42(5):305-316
Bullying behaviors among young children are taking place in preschool classrooms and child-development centers. The author makes a case, based on bullying themes in children’s literature and both qualitative and quantitative data collection with young children, for the use of children’s picture books to teach character as bullying prevention to 4–6 year old children. Through the reading of picture books and character education activities with a bullying theme preschool children develop a better understanding of bullying characteristics and strategies for dealing with bullying behaviors. Included are the results from questionnaires and interviews with preschool children and an annotated bibliography of children’s picture books and activities useful in the instruction and prevention of bullying behaviors. 相似文献
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Alan I. Sugawara Linda M. Burt Thanitthar P. Ruder 《Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education》2013,34(1):107-117
The interactions of 67 early childhood preservice teachers with International and U.S. preschool children in structured story time and unstructured table activities were videotaped and analyzed. Overall, preservice teachers displayed significantly more facilitative (e.g., ego boosting, teaching, questioning, and attending) than nonfacilitative (e.g., commanding, negatively responding, ignoring, and physical restraint) behaviors toward children. However, analyses of data relative to different ethnicity, gender, and activity type groups also revealed preservice teachers were relating to children in differential ways. Preservice teachers displayed significantly less facilitative and more nonfacilitative behaviors toward International children than U.S. children. In addition, preservice teacher‐child interactions with International children were rated as less positive and more negative than their interactions with U.S. children. Still also, preservice teachers displayed significantly less facilitative and less nonfacilitative behaviors toward girls than toward boys. Furthermore, preservice teacher‐child interactions with girls were rated as significantly less positive and less negative than with boys. Finally, preservice teachers displayed significantly more nonfacilitative behaviors toward children in structured story time activities than in unstructured table activities. 相似文献
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Wayne Eastman 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1997,24(3):161-164
Active Living is an approach that encourages people to be physically active every day. By targeting infants, toddlers, and
preschoolers, early childhood educators will contribute to their lifestyles as Active Living Children. This article is designed
as a framework for early childhood educators to support an active lifestyle among very young children. Various activities
are described to promote active play for very young children and all of its associated benefits. 相似文献
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Children who have been exposed to maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are at increased risk for various negative adult health outcomes, including cancer, liver disease, substance abuse, and depression. However, the proximal associations between ACEs and behavioral outcomes during the middle childhood years have been understudied. In addition, many of the ACE studies contain methodological limitations such as reliance on retrospective reports and limited generalizability to populations of lower socioeconomic advantage. The current study uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national urban birth cohort, to prospectively assess the adverse experiences and subsequent behavior problems of over 3000 children. Eight ACE categories to which a child was exposed by age 5 were investigated: childhood abuse (emotional and physical), neglect (emotional and physical), and parental domestic violence, anxiety or depression, substance abuse, or incarceration. Results from bivariate analyses indicated that Black children and children with mothers of low education were particularly likely to have been exposed to multiple ACE categories. Regression analyses showed that exposure to ACEs is strongly associated with externalizing and internalizing behaviors and likelihood of ADHD diagnosis in middle childhood. Variation in these associations by racial/ethnic, gender, and maternal education subgroups are examined. This study provides evidence that children as young as 9 begin to show behavioral problems after exposure to early childhood adversities. 相似文献
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Wayne Eastman 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1992,19(4):21-24
Recognizing the role that physical activity has in assisting young children attain desired objectives, early childhood educators should continually be investigating avenues for involving children in movement experiences. Caregivers should be aware that for the child, movement is one of the most utilized vehicles of nonverbal interaction and expression. All children enjoy physical activity. Playing makes a child happy.Wayne Eastman is on the faculty of the Fisher Institute of Applied Arts and Technology (Early Childhood Education), Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. 相似文献
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柯恒波 《四川教育学院学报》2014,(6):13-16
在幼儿语言教学活动中,幼儿教师的无效教学行为严重阻碍了幼儿的语言发展,影响了幼儿的身心健康,这就需要幼儿教师采取优化策略转换教学行为,以取得幼儿语言教学的理想效果。 相似文献
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Young children’s views are heard rarely in public debates and are often subordinated to adults’ views. This article examines how early childhood staff could support and enhance young children’s participation in public decision making. We argue that when early childhood staff use their expertise in young children’s physical, social and cognitive development to facilitate consultations with young children, they are likely to reinforce the view that young children are unable to form and express their own views. Whatever their intentions, this weakens the notion of children’s rights and undermines young children’s participation in public decision making. In contrast, when staff use their expertise in child development to collaborate with young children, new social structures can emerge in which everyone’s voice is heard. This approach reaffirms staff’s status as experts, but redefines their expertise. Instead of being experts acting on behalf of children, staff become equitable collaborators with children, advancing citizenship for all. 相似文献
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Tippett Christine D. Milford Todd M. 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2017,15(1):67-86
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in early childhood education is an area currently given little attention in the literature, which is unfortunate since young children are natural scientists and engineers. Here, we outline our mixed-methods design-based research investigation of a pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) classroom where two early childhood educators are incorporating STEM activities. We used a protocol consisting of a list of potential characteristics of effective and appropriate STEM curriculum for young children to structure our classroom observations. We also used semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and a questionnaire to collect data from multiple stakeholders (teachers, students, and parents), to examine how STEM activities were incorporated in Pre-K, to explore students’ engagement with STEM concepts, and to investigate parents’ opinions about STEM in general and STEM as experienced by their children. Our findings provide support for the inclusion of STEM-based learning experiences for young children. 相似文献
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刘佩佩 《四川职业技术学院学报》2012,22(1):79-82
世界各国政府和人民越来越重视健康,儿童的健康也受到了极大地关注。健康和体育之间有着密不可分的关系,关注健康就必须重视体育。幼儿园是幼儿活动的主要场所,重视幼儿健康就必须从幼儿在幼儿园的体育活动做起。《美国3—5岁幼儿体育适宜性实践方案》提出了多条对幼儿适宜的实践,对我国当前幼儿园体育活动有一定的借鉴和启示意义。 相似文献