Physical Growth
The number of pounds a year a child typically gains during middle to late childhood.
5-7 pounds
Common ways overweight children are treated by peers.
Ridiculed, teased, bullied, and rejected
Ages at which improvements in fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination occur.
6 to 8
Factors that limit opportunities to engage in sports.
Poverty, gender, location, and disability
Lack of physical education in schools can lead to an increase in this.
Childhood obesity
The mean age for growth spurts in girls and boys.
Age 9 for girls and age 11 for boys
The recognition of obesity in a family is linked to this status.
Socioeconomic
Number of brain growth spurts that occur during middle to late childhood.
Two
The top reason that kids stopped playing team sports.
Kids were not having fun
Number of physical activity minutes per week recommended in elementary school.
Minimum of 150 minutes
The type of motor skills that boys usually outperform girls in.
Gross motor skills
Measurement expressing the relationship to weight and height. Used to determine excess weight.
Body mass index (BMI)
This process contributes to increases in information processing speed and the child's reaction time.
Myelination
A form of competition with video games as the medium used to play.
Esports
Number of physical activity minutes per week recommended in middle school.
225 minutes
Number of inches a year a child typically grows during puberty.
2-3 inches
Lack of recognition from parents that children are overweight or obese.
Oblivobesity
Ages at which the frontal lobes become more developed - along with improvements in logic, memory, and planning.
10-12 years old
Number of children in the United States that play soccer.
3 million
Involving children in physical education is a key component in introducing children to this.
Sports
Describe the structural changes in children as they go through puberty.
Gain muscle strength, slim down, increase lung capacity
Ways in which being overweight impair brain function.
Working memory, mental flexibility, decision making, and deficits in executive functioning
Part of brain responsible for transferring information from short-term to long-term memory.
Hippocampus
The benefits of children's participation in sports.
Improved physical and emotional development
Higher levels of satisfaction with family
Better academic performance
Only two states/districts in the United States that meet PE guidelines for elementary and middle school.
Oregon and District of Columbia