Activity Intervention Reflection

My group members and I recently started implementing our physical activity intervention at Farmdale Elementary. Majority of my group members are currently communicating with each other to schedule who can go on what day and time. Our communication has updated all of us on the current progress status of the physical activity intervention. Unfortunately, we were not able to take weight and height on the scheduled day and time of the first week because we were not aware that the time we were scheduled to take measurements was inconvenient, so we discussed more scheduling with Mrs. Moser. Luckily, we were able to catch up with measurements of the children the following day. There were definitely hardships in our first week of the physical intervention due to inconvenient timing, but my group members and I are doing everything we can to have a successful intervention outcome. …show more content…
When I spoke to children about having fun and spending time in the outdoors for at least sixty minutes a day on the last class I was in, one of the children said they did not spend much time outdoors because they felt “unsafe”. Since children are feeling unsafe when they are outside, they are using more electronic entertainment because they are stuck indoors (Taplin, 2009). Parents are keeping their children indoors longer because they feel their children have no need to find entertainment outdoors. Parents are also not aware their children have obesity because they perceive them as “healthy kids”, when in reality, they have to engage in physical activity and have a nutritious diet to deteriorate the effects of children obesity (Sadeghi,