March 31st blog

Green, Gregory, Rileym Clarence and Hargove Brendra.  "PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR SCHOOLS AND PARENTS."  Education.  132.4 (2012): 915-920.  Academic Search Premier




Find a source that fits with your research question. Write a one page annotation of that source that presents your overall research question and includes 1) a MLA citation 2) a paragraph of summary 3) a paragraph analyzing the credibility, reliability, and currency of the source and 4) a paragraph discussing the relevancy of the source in connection with your research question. Annotation activity due on your blogs by Sunday night.

The article "Physical activity and childhood obesity" does have a good sense of currency.  There are dates included in the web article.  Also the article does have reliability, the authors did do a peer review.  Creditability is there too, the writer's tone is fair and offers some opposing views.

In the article "Physical activity and childhood obesity" the authors talk about some of the reasons American children are obese.  First being that they do not get enough exercise, than past generations.  Also children have more access to fast food and vending machines.  It also talks about how child hard it is on children who are obese.  Last it talks about how we need to teach our children the importance of health and physical education.

My question is going to be, How do schools play a part in childhood obesity?  This is a good article talking about relative issues regarding school and childhood obesity.