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Designing Sport Specific Physical Fitness Programs For Students With Developmental Variations, Brian Levine
Designing Sport Specific Physical Fitness Programs For Students With Developmental Variations, Brian Levine
Graduate Student Independent Studies
This research examined existing options for students with disabilities in the realm of organized physical activity. Findings suggest that children with physical disabilities resulting in wheelchair use and students with the cognitive disability Autism Spectrum Disorder, referred to in this paper as ASD, have limited access to organized physical activity programs, after school sport programs, and physical education. This paper explores the importance of participation in sport for all children, the various barriers to participation for children with disabilities, and the effect on inclusive physical education and organized physical activity for all students. Finally, this paper provides recommendations on how …
The Meal Gap: A Food Activist Curriculum, Kameshia L. Shepherd
The Meal Gap: A Food Activist Curriculum, Kameshia L. Shepherd
Graduate Student Independent Studies
The Meal Gap: A Food Activist Curriculum is a series of fifty-four lessons for fourth grade students that introduces them to the topic of food insecurity. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations initiated the World Food Summit in 1996 to discuss and call attention to the “widespread undernutrition and growing concern about the capacity of agriculture to meet future food needs” (Food and Agriculture Organization, n.d.). The June 2006 Policy Brief of the FAO reaffirmed the 1996 definition of food security, which states that “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and …
Cook To Learn: A Food-Focused Curriculum For Grades 3-5, Ryan R. Cherecwich
Cook To Learn: A Food-Focused Curriculum For Grades 3-5, Ryan R. Cherecwich
Graduate Student Independent Studies
In this Integrated Master's project, I argue that a new curriculum is needed to address the following: (a) plant-based foods and from-scratch food preparation practices are strongly connected to positive outcomes for children, (b) diets high in processed foods can lead to negative health outcomes (c) students aged 8-10 are particularly well suited to learn more about food, (d) studying food offers many opportunities for interdisciplinary learning across many subjects (literacy, math, science and social studies) and (d) food-focused learning connects particularly well to common learning objectives for students in grades 3-5, yet (e) there is currently a dearth of …