Two hundred words article

Obesity, the disease of the American 

children.

A very risky situation in your childhood, is to have a bad nutrition. Because if you don’t take care of it, you can get a very bad disease called obesity. 

 

Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children, and more than tripled in adolescents in the last 30 years. A huge reason of this changes is because of the bad nutrition at schools.

Also the percentage of people with obesity has increased to an 18 % in children and also in adolescents. And also a more than a third of the kids in America ( between 5 and 17 years old) has overweight.

Overweight is defined as having excess of body weight for a particular height. This excess can be from fat, muscle, bone, water or a combination of them.

These two diseases are the result of “calorie imbalance” or a not balanced diet; this means that you expend too few calories compared with the amount of the ones that you consume.

Well, great problems with these diseases are for example that youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure and also pre-diabetes the problem is that if it’s not treated it may end with diabetes.

Concluding, we can say that if you don’t have good eating habits, your lifestyle can change very badly. So, you must always have a well-balanced diet and always exercising.

Video of injury prevention

http://moviemakeronline.com/movie/130626193658c80dd8f52b2f9597

Misbehavior in class can be risky

Purpose: To Inform

Audience:     For classmates and teachers

First sentence: You don’t have to eliminate risks, you have to manage them

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You are going to find a risk everywhere you go, so at anything that you are going to do, you have to evaluate risks. So, always think before anything that could end badly.

So you have to be aware of the possible risks, and when you have identified one, deal with it. Because, if you try to eliminate or avoid risks, you will end doing nothing.

For example, we can talk about rugby, a well-known contact sport, where you have a lot of risks in every minute of the match. But you don’t eliminate rugby. You manage or deal with the risks, so you don’t get injured.

Examples of the things that you can do are using a mouth guard to avoid losing a toot. And to avoid hitting your head, you can use a helmet that protects very well from impacts. Also, you may buy shoulder and chest pads.

You are also going to find risks inside a classroom, for example, the other day, one classmate started hitting the metal parts of the desk, to make noise. My teacher told him to stop but he did again, like at the 10^th time, the teacher got bored and after that she didn’t even look at him. But three minutes later, when the desk was very broken with sharp metal, my partner cut a little piece of his finger and started bleeding. There you can see again that instead of not having wooden desks, the next class we arrived here the broken metal parts were taken off and if he tries to do it again he will be punished.

All of these cases are examples of SMARTRISK. This means recognizing the risks of the activity that you are doing and choosing how to manage and deal with each risk from the activity.

And if you want to promote and teach about injury prevention, you could do the following things:

-Include Injury prevention as a subject, and also work with the topic on every subject.

- The teachers can inform parents about injuries during parent-teacher interviews.

- Make routes to walk to school where someone will be watching the pupils.

Finally, you can see that the best ways to avoid getting an injury, is taking the SMARTRISK system, evaluating the risks of every activity you are doing and of course deciding what are you going to do to manage or deal with the risk.

English Survey
http://es.surveymonkey.com/s/6WSXP9Q

Project pictures

1.- Out of Bounds sign:  with this sign, you know that you dont have to go there.

2.-  Evacuation Route sign: This shows you where you have to go in case of Tsunami.

3.-  Amplificator: In case of emergency this starts an alarm and also may amplificate a teacher`s voice.

4.- Dont smoking sign: You cant smoke inside the gym, first, because it damages your lungs  and also you cant smoke at School.

5.- Do not run sign: You can find this near the stairs, because if you run, you can fall and get injured.

6.- Stairs: Here you can watch me using the railings.

7.- Fire sign:  It tells you where is the fire hose and the fire extinguisher.

8.- Caution sign: This is on an electric panel, it tells you that you can get electrified.

9.-Security Board: It count the days without accidents at school.

10.- Fire hose: if there`s a fire, you can use it to shut it down.

11.- Shin-guards: You use them at a soccer match, it protect your shins.

12- Rugby Boots: They give you grip, so you dont fall.

13.- Security Glasses: At the science Lab, you protect your eyes in case of a chemical accident.

14.- Mouth Guard: With this you protect your teeth playing rugby or other contact sports.

Poster evaluation

Our favourite was the first one, because it had a lot of information and also nice drawings.The only problem was that it had a few grammar mistakes.

A good thing about this activity was that we learnt how teachers feel when they evaluate us.