POSITIVELY AGING: OPTIMIZING MOBILITY ACROSS LIFE

描述（由申请人提供）： 此SEPA应用程序是第一阶段和第二阶段的应用程序，用于创建，评估和传播以积极老龄化计划的流动性和肥胖的相互关联领域为中心的新教材。美国国家老龄化研究所（NIA）和外科医生办公室强调了身体活动和健康维护在整个生命周期的重要性。该应用程序将利用与移动性和肥胖相关的以患者为导向的临床研究的信息作为示例，创建课程和活动，有效地教授在中学水平处理力和运动的科学和数学原理。积极老龄化计划是UTHSCSA老龄化研究和教育中心（AREC）的工作科学家和圣安东尼奥中学教育工作者之间积极的十年创新跨学科伙伴关系，德克萨斯州。 积极老龄化计划有三个长期目标：1。提供创新的，有效的教学材料，集中在数学和科学课程的元素，并从老年科学的例子为基础; 2。帮助学生学会做出关键的，决定生活的决定，以延长和提高自己的生活;和3。帮助学生培养对人口老龄化的需要和关注的敏感性。 对于本申请，我们设计了三个具体目标来实现这些长期目标：1.创建新的教学材料，专注于流动性和肥胖，教学生：（A）力和运动的科学和数学概念; B）之间的关联，肥胖，疾病和残疾的整个生命周期;（C）活动，促进健康的营养和活动习惯的整个生命周期。2.制定一套有凝聚力的定量评估策略，以确定新的积极老龄化教学计划是否改善：（A）特定于德克萨斯州和国家标准的数学和科学课程目标的知识和技能; B）特定于流动性，肥胖，疾病和残疾之间的关联的知识;（C）关于健康营养和活动习惯的知识和技能。3.通过互联网和教师工作坊传播新材料。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This SEPA application is a Phase I and II application to create, evaluate, and disseminate new teaching materials centered on the inter-related areas of mobility and obesity for the Positively Aging program. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Surgeon General's Office have underscored the importance of physical activity and health maintenance across the life span. This application will utilize information from patient-oriented clinical research related to mobility and obesity as examples to create lessons and activities that effectively teach scientific and mathematical principles dealing with forces and motion at the middle school level. The Positively Aging program is an active ten-year innovative interdisciplinary partnership between the working scientists of the Aging Research and Education Center (AREC) of the UTHSCSA and middle school educators in San Antonio, TX. The Positively Aging program has three long-term goals: 1. to provide innovative, effective teaching materials that center on math and science curricular elements and are based on examples from the Gerontologic Sciences; 2. to help students learn to make critical, life determining decisions for extending and enhancing their own lives; and 3. to help students develop a sensitivity to the needs and concerns of the aging population. For the present application, we designed three specific aims to achieve these long-range goals: 1. To create new instructional materials focused on mobility and obesity that teach students: (A) Scientific and mathematical concepts of forces and motion; B) The associations between mobility, obesity, disease, and disability across the life span; (C) Activities that promote healthy nutritional and activity habits across the life span. 2. To develop a cohesive set of quantitative evaluation strategies to determine whether the new Positively Aging instructional program improve: (A) Knowledge and skills specific to State of Texas and National Standards for math and science curricular objectives; B) Knowledge specific to the associations between mobility, obesity, disease, and disability; (C) Knowledge and skills regarding healthy nutrition and activity habits. 3. To disseminate the new materials through the internet and teacher workshops.