UNHEALTHY LIFE STYLESEmrawa Secondary School for Girls IN Jordan In collaboration with AMS IV School in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Project BackgroundEmrawa Secondary School for Girls in the North of Jordan participated in a virtual exchange program hosted by Global Nomads Group. As part of the program, our school collaborated with the AMS IV School in USA to develop solutions to the challenges our communities face.

We decided to address the problem of “unhealthy life styles”. An unhealthy lifestyle is one of the major contributor to almost every disease, illness and health issue that we are facing in our country and the whole world today . To do this, we created a printed brochure, a hand-made painting notebook for children and a hand made flyer. Also, have

we suggested a game about the problem .

“Unhealthy life styles”

People influence their own health through their bad life habits such as unhealthy diet, smoking ,poor sleep, sleeping with smart phones, much depending on technology, lack of exercise, overweight…etc. We believe that better lifestyle habits will reduce illness and the need to much medicine and cure. Also, results in a better quality of life. Our goal is to highlight the need for people to re-shape their daily routine and adopt active approach to living healthy.

Work StepsWe worked as a collaborative team from the beginning of our project. We divided the work in order to save time and effort. Together, we dealt with the problem from two perspectives. Locally and internationally. We suggested reasons and results in our community and in the whole world using the conflict tree. After stating the problem, we put our action plan (the goal, the objectives, the audience and the driving question towards global citizenship). We investigated the problem, drew, painted, and took photos of our work as a documentation .

We also made interviews asking related questions and collecting data..

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Also, we made hand made flyers that we

hanged in some places of the school. Also, we

collected related flyers from the Internet

which we hope to put in the magazine wall of

our school

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Drawings

Moreover, we linked our project to the idea of “recycling”, we have collected old books of the elementary stage called “Activity books” and we cut representative photos . We baste them on white papers making a good painting note book for children. They will remember good and bad routines as they draw.

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In addition, we have made a brochure related to the problem and distributed it to the nearest local community .

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Moreover, our school participated last year at a competition called The “ The App Challenge 2015” through developing an application on Edutainment. Four students design a computer game application which has an educational value. The game was about healthy food and how the player loose when eats fast foot. We found it a good idea to share it here since some of the campfire students were there. It is in the App Store and

any body can play .

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Challenges

First, we hope that we had the chance to share the partner school the same problem in order to see how they would introduce it.Second, it was difficult to take photos of people we would like to interview. They didn’t allow taking photos of their children regarding the obesity smoking.

Third, not all of us have phones and we faces few problems regarding using computers.

We are very proud• We are very proud of working in the campfire program . We

learnt the importance of group work .• We are proud because we felt that as youth we can do good

things to our community and we can help to change situations and face challenges.

• We are proud because we start think of the globe, our larger home, the home of all humans..

• We are proud because we learnt problem- solving and investigation.

• We are proud of our work(the brochure, the painting note book and the flyers) which make people in our school start thinking of daily routine.

• We are proud of our humanity.

We are proud

Our teachers got a gift from “Madrasati” as a result of their good workThey chose a sport room equipment

It is a healthy choice… we are proud now

Future workWe hope that we can continue what we begin.

We will make two posters and put one in our school and another in the Medical Center of our town.

We will have healthy food in the school as the school principal claimed that milk and yogurt are in the future plan of the school cafeteria.

We are planning for an open healthy day as students from the JUST university work as volunteers with in a project called

“Madares”, which we will specify for health issues .

We are proud now because we can answer this…………

“How do we as global citizens increase awareness of health issues and help people get rid of bad habits, modify their life quality, be

healthier and live longer and happier”?

#Where the idea came fromPeople around the world need to re-think of their unhealthy life styles. Fast food, less or too much eating, smoking, overweight or maintaining unhealthy weight, lack of exercise, sleeping with smart phones, much depending on technology and other bad habits  affect human bodies negatively. So, humans around the world

should be aware of such an important issue  .

 

 We found that unhealthy life style negatively affect students performance.

Motivation

Watch our work here!

https://www.wevideo.com/view/653542785

Our Advice

Get rid of this

Our Advice

We hope that we were close to global citizenship