Food-based STEAM Learning Activities Reduce Decline in Preschoolers Skin Carotenoid Status
Author
Bayles, Jocelyn
Abstract
Objective: To assess the effectiveness of food-based Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics (STEAM) learning activities on children’s liking of nine target vegetables and overall fruit/vegetable intake.
Methods: Seven hands-on, food-based STEAM learning activities to expose children to nine target vegetables in Head Start preschools across North Carolina. Child-reported vegetable liking scores and skin carotenoid status (SCS) were collected at baseline, midpoint, and post-test (Dependent variables = change in child-reported liking scores and SCS; independent variables = sex, age, baseline Body Mass Index, and intervention versus control).
Results: A total of 113 children (Intervention =49; Control =64) participated in the study. A time-by-group interaction was not significant for target vegetable liking scores. A time-by-group interaction was significant for SCS. Both groups declined (I=0.06%; C=15.09%) with a smaller decline observed in the intervention group (p= .02).
Conclusions and Implications: Food-based STEAM learning activities may present a unique opportunity to impact FV consumption, while meeting academic standards.
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Date
2021-04-23
Citation:
APA:
Bayles, Jocelyn.
(April 2021).
Food-based STEAM Learning Activities Reduce Decline in Preschoolers Skin Carotenoid Status
(Honors Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9009.)
MLA:
Bayles, Jocelyn.
Food-based STEAM Learning Activities Reduce Decline in Preschoolers Skin Carotenoid Status.
Honors Thesis. East Carolina University,
April 2021. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9009.
April 18, 2024.
Chicago:
Bayles, Jocelyn,
“Food-based STEAM Learning Activities Reduce Decline in Preschoolers Skin Carotenoid Status”
(Honors Thesis., East Carolina University,
April 2021).
AMA:
Bayles, Jocelyn.
Food-based STEAM Learning Activities Reduce Decline in Preschoolers Skin Carotenoid Status
[Honors Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
April 2021.
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East Carolina University