By the Anthropologists
What’s the Story with the American Obesity
Epidemic
2What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
Anthropologists
• In the real world, anthropologists study _________.• In this activity, as anthropologists, we are interested
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3What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• According to _[quote your source here]__ America’s obesity epidemic is ___[summarize your group’s feelings about the problem here]___.
• If we don’t do something about the problem, we will __[make a prediction here about what will happen]__.
Evidence
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4What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• We have investigated several resources. We believe the epidemic may be caused by:– [list your group’s conclusions here]– – –
Possible Causes
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5What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• To study the environments of our communities, we have selected the __[write the name of your survey here]__ survey.
• In this survey, we __[here, describe what the study will look at or measure]___
Our Survey
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6What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• _____[predict how your classmates will answer the surveys here]_____
• For example:– Our communities have too many fast food
restaurants and not enough sidewalks for walking.– Our school environment does not promote a
healthy lifestyle for students.– Students watch commercials with more unhealthy
messages than healthy messages
Our Hypotheses
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7What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
Effects of Restaurants and Eateries in our Community on our Behavior
Positive NegativeNeutral
Survey 1 - Community Environment (1 of 3)(double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)
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8What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
Effects of Parks and Recreation in our Community on our Behavior
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Survey 1 - Community Environment (2 of 3)(double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)
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9What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
Effects of Transportation in our Community on our Behavior
Positive NegativeNeutral
Survey 1 - Community Environment (3 of 3)(double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)
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10What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
How we think our school is doing
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School wide healthy eating program
School wide physical activity program
PE required for all
Students involved with health council
Breakfast, lunch & snack programs
Total Score: Higher number is better
Survey 2 - School Environment (double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)
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11What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
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Number of TV commercials
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After School Prime Time
Type of health message by day of week and time of day
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Survey 3 – Television Commercials (double click the graph to change it to match your survey results)
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12What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• Share important notes or comments that were made on the surveys here.
Important Comments
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13What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• [based on your research and survey, list 4-5 things you feel are causes of eating more and moving less.]
Role of our Environment on our Behavior
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14What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• [How does your group recommend we change the environment to promote a more healthy lifestyle. Give 4-5 specific examples.
• For example:– Present our findings to the City Council to request
more activities for youth– Make the school environment more healthy by
removing vending machines. – Reduce the number of hours in front of the TV.
Recommendations
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15What’s the Story: By the Anthropologists
• [Propose studies or research that would help your group learn more.]
Future Research–to learn more, we could
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