POSITIVELY AGINING: OPTIMIZING MOBILITY ACROSS LIFE

描述(由申请人提供)： 该SEPA应用程序是第一阶段和第二阶段的应用程序，旨在为积极老龄化计划创建、评估和传播以相互关联的流动性和肥胖症领域为中心的新教材。国家老龄研究所(NIA)和卫生局局长办公室强调了一生中体力活动和健康维护的重要性。这个应用程序将利用与流动性和肥胖症相关的面向患者的临床研究的信息作为例子，创建课程和活动，有效地教授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)的工作科学家与德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的中学教育工作者之间的一个积极的十年创新跨学科合作伙伴关系。 积极老龄化计划有三个长期目标：1.提供创新、有效的教材，以数学和科学课程元素为中心，并以老年学中的例子为基础；2.帮助学生学会为延长和提高自己的生命做出关键的、决定生命的决定；3.帮助学生培养对老龄化人口的需求和关切的敏感度。 对于目前的应用，我们设计了三个具体目标来实现这些长期目标：1.创建专注于运动和肥胖的新教学材料，教导学生：(A)力和运动的科学和数学概念；(B)一生中运动、肥胖、疾病和残疾之间的联系；(C)在一生中促进健康营养和活动习惯的活动。2.制定一套连贯的量化评估策略，以确定新的积极老龄化教学计划是否改善：(A)德克萨斯州和国家数学和科学课程目标标准所特有的知识和技能；(B)活动能力、肥胖症、疾病和残疾之间相关的知识；(C)有关健康营养和活动习惯的知识和技能。3.通过互联网和教师讲习班传播新材料。

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.