Sleep Deprivation and Exercise

Michelle, Hannah, Eliza, and Eliana

Later start time

Teens have trouble falling asleep before 11pm

Their deepest sleep point is around 7am

After or the time that most teens wake up for school

Early Morning Classes

Test showed that students who were assigned early morning classes didn’t perform as well

Their grades were lower overall compared to students in classes with later start times

What happens when you don’t sleep?

Sleep Deprivation links to…

Depression, suicide thoughts, weight gain, risky behavior in teens

Teens who drive/walk to school without enough sleep or while its dark are more likely to have accidents

Tendency to get up later until age 19.5 in women and 21 in men

At this point they start waking up earlier again

By the age of 55-60 you are waking up the same time you were at the age of 10

Exercise and the Brain

Chemicals Roles

Serotonin: lifts mood

Epinephrine: response to stress/ fear

Dopamine: signals pleasure and makes you happy

Endorphin: bodies natural pain killer

Why exercise is necessary

Increases blood calcium which stimulates dopamine production and uptake in your brain

Helps produce serotonin/ epinephrine/ dopamine/ endorphin

These chemicals can help students by lifting their mood, keep them active and healthy, and give them a break from academic classes like science, history, language arts, math, etc.

Breaks from academic classes

Down time and breaks from classes like math or history help reinforce new connections of new things you’ve learned that day

That is why we have gym class for 4th period- to help strengthen things you learned in the first 3 periods

It is important to support these new memories so breaks are important

Gym class every day

Gym is a good way of exercise

Exercise elevates mood by producing the chemicals we just mentioned

It is necessary for Middle school students to have a good mood because if they didn’t they could get stressed and stress has a negative impact on the brain

Updated Schedule

With our new schedule…

Classes will start two hours later because the teen brain stops developing melatonin later than adult brains which makes them tired and less focused in the morning

Gym class everyday before lunch so students get daily exercise

School ends at 4:10 PM, still leaving enough time for an after school activity

Sources

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http://tactilesoul.com/2010/12/02/how-to-recognise-teenage-depression/

http://www.smartnsassymom.com/category/children/page/2/

Sources

www.clairedorotik.com/NLWC-EXERCISE_AND_MOOD.htm

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&biw=1143&bih=853&tbm=isch&tbnid=fzWDCgAaOazEiM:&imgrefurl=http://chriscoster.blogspot.com/2010/12/video-games-and-primitive-brain.html&docid=rvmRIyhH0HjG5M&imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i1fmIh7Vt8I/TQPJu8tmEpI/AAAAAAAAACE/QVvnRVrt5X8/s1600/brain_cross.jpg&w=500&h=367&ei=YpOpUMuZJo2O0QGb2oDIDA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=395&sig=116255740463590241051&page=1&tbnh=136&tbnw=186&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0,i:105&tx=97&ty=98

THE ENDBy Hannah Eliza Eliana and Michelle