Question: if you got the data about how much children know about their bodies what would you do with it.

Jennifer Paxton answered on 12 Mar 2018:

Hello, thanks for your question about my project! Once we know what children in your class or school know about their body we can compare this to other schools all over the country and then use this information to design some really fun activities for you to learn real facts about your bodies. We find that a lot of the information out there isn’t really true and this can be very confusing for some people!
There is a real push for the public to know more about their bodies because, for most people, it helps to make better lifestyle choices if they know a bit more about what really is going on under their skin! Some other scientists have published some work looking at how much adults know about their bodies…. and it was surprisingly little! I’d like to try and publish this work too and show others what children know and what the favourite things to learn are! At my work, we run workshops where members of the public can com into our labs and learn about their bodies and these are really popular – people are often really amazed at the things your body can do!! Hopefully we could arrange similar things for schools so that you can learn some really fun things about your body too!