Child Physical Growth
Child Brain Growth
Sports
Gender and Ethnicity
Obesity
100

This is the typical, general weight growth of a child at each year.

What is 5-7 pounds. 

100

How many major growth spurts of the brain happen?

What is two?

100

This is currently how many children in the United States play youth soccer.

What is 3 million?

100

Girls percentage that never participated in sports is this. 

18%?

100

This is the current measurement for determining excess weight. 

What is Body Mass Index?

200

This is the average inches grown tall a year. 

What is two to three inches?

200

This is the age significant improvements in fine motor skills happen.

What is six and eight years?

200

This is what can help improve social skills and learn competition. 

What is sports?

200

This is the percentage of boys who never participated in sports.

What is 13%?

200

The CDC considers this percentile for their age to be overweight.

What is 85%?

300

This is the age a girl growth spurt starts physically. 

What is nine?

300

This is the age the frontal lobes become more developed.

What is ten and twelve?

300

Better academic performance, improved physical and emotions development, higher levels of satisfaction with family and overall quality of life in children links to this. 

What is sports?

300

This is the amount of girls who currently participate in sports.

What is 69%?

300

This leads to medical and cognitive conditions. 

What is obesity and excessive weight?

400

This is the age a boy's physical growth spurt occurs. 

What is eleven?

400

This is what myelination is responsible for. 

What is the information processing speed in a child's reaction?

400

What is factors that make children quit sports?

What is counterproductive by using too much competition and athletic skills with children that creates children to get bored with the game?

400

This is the current amount of boys who participate in sports.

What is 75%?

400

This is a growing concern is the lack of recognitions from parents that children are overweight or obese is referred to this by Katz. 

What is oblivobesity?

500

At eleven children tend to grow and develop what two skills at a physical level. 

What is gross motor skills and fine motor skills?

500

This is responsible for transferring information from short- term to long-term.

What is hippocampus?

500

This is factors found in the United States that limit children to engage in sports. 

What is gender, poverty, location, ethnicity, and disabilities ?

500

This is the amount of Hispanic girls who play sports.

What is 17%?

500

These are different things to help children with obesity.

What is Behavioral interventions, exercise, and diet change?