针对本校学生近视状况调查报告英语作文

针对本校学生近视状况调查报告英语作文My Report on the Myopia Problem at Our School
Hi everyone! My name is Timmy and I'm a 5th grader here at Maple Tree Elementary. Today I want to share with you all the results of a really important survey I did on a big health issue affecting lots of kids at our school – myopia, which is also called nearsightedness or blurry long distance vision.
I first learned about myopia when I had to get glasses last year. My mom took me to the eye doctor because I was having a hard time seeing things on the classroom board from the back rows. The doctor did some tests and said I'm nearsighted, which means I have really good close-up vision for reading books and looking at things near my face, but I can't see distant things clearly without glasses or contact lenses.
The doctor told me myopia is very common, especially in kids who spend lots of time indoors using computers, phones and doing close-up work. He said all that intense close vision puts a lot of strain on our young eyes and can cause them to grow longer than normal, resulting in blurriness looking into the distance.
When I started wearing my glasses, I was amazed at how crisp and clear everything looked from far away! Trees had individual leaves instead of being green blobs. I could easily read signs and see faces from across the classroom. But I also felt kind of embarrassed about having to wear glasses and worried that kids might tease me about it.
That's when I decided to look into how many other students at our school might be dealing with the same myopia issue. I worked on creating a survey to collect data with help from my teacher Mrs. Appleton. We got permission from the principal to send it out to all the classes from 3rd to 6th grade.
The survey asked things like:
Do you wear glasses or contacts?
If so, at what age did you start wearing them?
What activities do you spend a lot of time doing up close (reading, video games, etc.)?
How much time per day do you estimate you spend outdoors?
We had over 350 responses which was about 75% of the students in those grade levels! I was really excited to analyze all the data.
The biggest takeaway? A whopping 57% of kids between grades 3-6 at our school have some form of myopia or nearsightedness and wear glasses or contacts! That's more than half!
When you break it down by grade level, the percentages go up as the grades get higher. Only 39% of 3rd graders are myopic, whereas a huge 71% of 6th graders have glasses or contacts for nearsightedness.
Clearly myopia rates are increasing a ton the older kids get at our school. The likely explanation is that more years in school means more and more hours of intense up-close work like reading, writing, studying and excessive screen time. All that strains the eyes and makes kids become increasingly nearsighted over time.
Another fascinating finding was that students who spent more time outdoors each day tended to have lower rates of myopia than those who were indoors most of the time. Kids who were outside 2 hours or more per day only had a 29% myopia rate, compared to 68% for those outdoors less than 1 hour daily.
Experts think increased outdoor time may help protect young eyes because the brighter natural light outdoors causes pupils to constrict more, letting in less intense visual input. Also,
the relaxed distant focus outdoors gives eyes a break from close vision strain.
When I asked about common myopia-causing activities, the top culprits were:
Reading/homework (93%)
Video games (82%)
Phone/tablet use (76%)
Computer use (63%)
Basically anything involving intense near focus for long periods is likely contributing to such high rates of nearsightedness among kids today compared to the past when kids spent more time outdoors playing.
So what can we do about this myopia epidemic at our school? Here are my top recommendations based on the survey data:
Encourage outdoor recess and breaks from classroom work. Simply getting kids outdoors more often in the bright natural light may really help reduce eye strain and myopia progression. Even just 1-2 hours per day made a big difference.
Set limits on video game, phone, computer time - all that excessive screen time is clearly a major myopia risk factor.
Teachers and parents should enforce breaks from near digital work.
Include better lighting and desks optimized for reducing eye strain during classroom reading, writing and seatwork time.
Teach kids from an early age about the importance of frequent eye breaks and looking into the distance periodically when doing extended near tasks like homework.
Raise parent awareness about myopia causes so they limit intense near work at home too and ensure kids get enough outdoor play.
Simple adjustments to reduce eye focusing fatigue could go a long way in curbing these skyrocketing childhood myopia rates at our school and beyond! After all, we only get one pair of eyes so we need to protect them while we're young.
I hope my survey results and suggestions are useful for the teachers, principal and parents in addressing this important childhood vision issue. Myopia isn't just an inconvenience - it's a real public health concern considering the eye disease risks of high nearsightedness later in life if it progresses too much in childhood. Let's work together to create a more myopia-aware environment at our school!
Thanks for reading my report. I'm available if any adults have additional questions! Over and out from Timmy, proud new glasses-wearer.。