Needs Statement
Ignite Innovation Academy is an exemplary public charter school located in Greenville, North Carolina. They provide well-rounded education to children in kindergarten to sixth grade and are an alternative the public-school system. Nevertheless, their current free lunch system, which given to those of a lower socio economic status, needs to be revamped to better suit the nutritional needs of the children who desperately need it the most. This can be achieved by supplementing the current meal system with fresh vegetables through implementing an educational outdoor gardening section for the children to both learn and prosper from.
This problem is most evident during the mid-day lunch time of the student at Ignite Innovation Academy …show more content…
Household and school dietary choices will improve the performance of students at the charter school. Creating healthy dietary habits in children through the school system is a salient objective in our country; seeing over 1 in 6 children in America are considered obese according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data collected in 2010. This shockingly high number displays that obesity is not simply a condition that only adults live with. Malnutrition deprives a child of their daily nutritional needs; however, this does not mean that the child does not over eat. Eating over processed foods can create an excess amount of calorie intake without the needed nutrition of the child. Furthermore, “There is strong evidence that nutrition education interventions and obesity prevention programs targeting dietary behavior…can positively affect the AP of primary school children” (). This is what makes nutritional education and intervention vital within our youth. A gardening section on school grounds would provide the following: nutritional education, plant life education, an outdoor physical activity, promote better student performance as well as providing fresh produce to supplement the free lunch meals. If this needs is met it has the potential to create an effective deterrent to the obesity within he school as well as give additional nutrition enhancements to the current free meal system at Ignite Innovation
Ignite Innovation Academy is an exemplary public charter school located in Greenville, North Carolina. They provide well-rounded education to children in kindergarten to sixth grade and are an alternative the public-school system. Nevertheless, their current free lunch system, which given to those of a lower socio economic status, needs to be revamped to better suit the nutritional needs of the children who desperately need it the most. This can be achieved by supplementing the current meal system with fresh vegetables through implementing an educational outdoor gardening section for the children to both learn and prosper from.
This problem is most evident during the mid-day lunch time of the student at Ignite Innovation Academy …show more content…
Household and school dietary choices will improve the performance of students at the charter school. Creating healthy dietary habits in children through the school system is a salient objective in our country; seeing over 1 in 6 children in America are considered obese according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data collected in 2010. This shockingly high number displays that obesity is not simply a condition that only adults live with. Malnutrition deprives a child of their daily nutritional needs; however, this does not mean that the child does not over eat. Eating over processed foods can create an excess amount of calorie intake without the needed nutrition of the child. Furthermore, “There is strong evidence that nutrition education interventions and obesity prevention programs targeting dietary behavior…can positively affect the AP of primary school children” (). This is what makes nutritional education and intervention vital within our youth. A gardening section on school grounds would provide the following: nutritional education, plant life education, an outdoor physical activity, promote better student performance as well as providing fresh produce to supplement the free lunch meals. If this needs is met it has the potential to create an effective deterrent to the obesity within he school as well as give additional nutrition enhancements to the current free meal system at Ignite Innovation