Adolescent Health Exhibition Project
Our Exhibition project was a combination of all our classes to investigate the topic of adolescent health and physical education in schools today. Currently no High Tech High school has any form of mandatory physical education or fitness class. Through this project, we did a lot of reading, as well as experiments to find the importance of physical education and activity not just for our minds, but for our minds and education.
Many experiments were conducted throughout the course of this project. There was individual experiments, that each students did themselves: having a physical goal to achieve (lose weight, complete a certain activity in a certain amount of time) and we had to meet certain requirements to get there such as having certain diet requirements- 600 IU a week of Vitamin D and 8100 mg a week of Calcium, and certain physical requirements- doing physical activity for 4 hours a week. We would log doing these requirements and activities and see how it affected and changed us. I focused a lot on having a lot of yogurt and eating it everyday (I still do), as well as eating for fruits and vegetables. I did 6 hour of physical activity a week. My goal was and is to loose 35 pounds (5 pounds every month). I knew I would not reach that goal during that project, its something I have continued after the project. We also did an experiment that had us run a mile at the beginning of the project, before the experiments and then after the project/experiments to compare our mile times. Each of our three classes also had a specific role in a different experiment. One class was the control group, one class was the meditation group (having our teacher lead them in various meditation exercises), and the last class be the physical activity group (having our teacher lead them in various physical exercises). We did these activities to see how each one of the activities affected our mile times and to see the importance of them, for the hope of incorporating them into a physical education and fitness class. My class was the meditation class. In the moments and even hour after we were lead through those meditation exercises, I was definitely much more calm. It was very helpful to have that. My mile time also improved by 50 seconds, and I did lose the weight I had planned out for myself and continued to after the project.
I felt that this project was very relevant and valuable. We got to really understand the value and importance of physical education and get a hands on experience, not just read facts from a book (which we did as well). It was really good for us to participate it physical activity, because many of us don't. It was very refreshing to have this kind of project and to get ourselves moving. Hopefully, someday, High Tech High Schools will incorporate a type of physical education.
Many experiments were conducted throughout the course of this project. There was individual experiments, that each students did themselves: having a physical goal to achieve (lose weight, complete a certain activity in a certain amount of time) and we had to meet certain requirements to get there such as having certain diet requirements- 600 IU a week of Vitamin D and 8100 mg a week of Calcium, and certain physical requirements- doing physical activity for 4 hours a week. We would log doing these requirements and activities and see how it affected and changed us. I focused a lot on having a lot of yogurt and eating it everyday (I still do), as well as eating for fruits and vegetables. I did 6 hour of physical activity a week. My goal was and is to loose 35 pounds (5 pounds every month). I knew I would not reach that goal during that project, its something I have continued after the project. We also did an experiment that had us run a mile at the beginning of the project, before the experiments and then after the project/experiments to compare our mile times. Each of our three classes also had a specific role in a different experiment. One class was the control group, one class was the meditation group (having our teacher lead them in various meditation exercises), and the last class be the physical activity group (having our teacher lead them in various physical exercises). We did these activities to see how each one of the activities affected our mile times and to see the importance of them, for the hope of incorporating them into a physical education and fitness class. My class was the meditation class. In the moments and even hour after we were lead through those meditation exercises, I was definitely much more calm. It was very helpful to have that. My mile time also improved by 50 seconds, and I did lose the weight I had planned out for myself and continued to after the project.
I felt that this project was very relevant and valuable. We got to really understand the value and importance of physical education and get a hands on experience, not just read facts from a book (which we did as well). It was really good for us to participate it physical activity, because many of us don't. It was very refreshing to have this kind of project and to get ourselves moving. Hopefully, someday, High Tech High Schools will incorporate a type of physical education.