Step 2

Center for Disease Control and Prevention Slide Show

Step 2


Now, you and your partner will view a slide show developed by the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.  As you view the show, click the down 
arrow on the scroll bar to advance each slide.

In the slide show you will see the rates of overweight people in the United 
States change as the years progress.  You and your partner should discuss 
how the sequence of events in the slide show represents an epidemic.   

Click 
here to go to a research response organizer.  You will use it during 
this WebQuest to record any details you may want to use to inform others 
about the obesity epidemic, its causes and effects, and prevention.

Now, click 
here to view the show.  This slide show gives data up to the year 2004.  
For updated obesity trends reported by the CDC (Centers for Disease 
Control), please click 
here.  Remember to discuss details and write them on your organizer.




Rashida Betts, Reading Specialist
Stephen Decatur Middle School
8200 Pinewood Drive
Clinton, MD 20735
To contact me:
E-mail: rashida.betts@pgcps.org