Teen Health Awareness 2014
Making a Change with Humanities
Through research and surveying, we were able to answer the questions What can schools do to improve child and adolescent health?, How much of your activity should occur in school and in what form?, and What is the relationship between mental health and physical health? in our Humanities class. We started off by reading various research articles about health and analyzing their data and statements. We then focused on collecting data of our own. As a team, we created several surveys inquiring about the current state of physical education and activity that we sent to parents, teachers, administrators, and students at various schools in California. We then set out to interview the public to get more specific data and recommendations. All of this data we collaborated to analyze and use the data to answer our essential questions. Our findings, we paired with our research and displayed in a collaborative Literature Review (below).
The Exhibition
After compiling our products and information, we had a huge exhibition where we displayed our final products and actually raised awareness and spread our knowledge within our community. Through interactive activities and visuals, we taught hundreds of people about the importance of health and gave them the opportunity to be impacted by what we have done. The night was successful and many people were very interested and educated about healthy lifestyles. Below is a few pictures of our exhibition and the process of creating it.