Students across the country are putting their passion for eating right, being active and living healthy into making their schools healthier places. Join them. Use this site to get ideas, plan a project and share your success!
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Brainstorming as a school
Sometimes a group of 6 or 8 students can have hard time deciding how to make their school a healthier place. While surveys, interviews, and focus groups can all help, one school in Kansas decided to bring their whole student body together for two Students Taking Charge forums.
Seeing is believing
Are you getting a lot of resistance from your principal or school nutrition director? Does it seem like you're just not speaking their language? Or do they not understand what your changes will really look like? Find out how Northampton High School took their school leaders to visit another high school that has already put their ideas into action!
Quick Fact:
So does ketchup count as a fruit?
One-third of the vegetable servings eaten by youth aged 13 to 18 are in the form of potato chips and french fries. The figure climbs to 40% among African-American students.
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High school students celebrities for younger kids
Oct 27, 2009
High school students across the country are taking center stage to inspire elementary kids to eat healthy and be active. By joining Students Taking Charge, students are putting their passion for living healthy to practice by making their school a place where it’s easy to be healthy.
Funds Available to Support Students Taking Charge!
Oct 14, 2009
Action for Healthy Kids wants you to apply for the UnitedHealth HEROES grant program!
Don’t believe everything you read… Write a new headline!
Sep 16, 2009
If you believe the headlines, most high school students are falling behind in school, texting while driving, zoning out on computers, and hitting the fast food drive thru on a daily basis. They don’t care what happens in the real world, in their schools and communities. It’s true that there are some students like this--and a lot of adults, too!--but there’s a different story, one that doesn’t make the headlines…