Do you want to improve school breakfast in your middle or high school? Check out the new Project Templates to help you bring better foods to the table, energize your cafeteria space, and promote school breakfast to your classmates. There's even a handy survey that makes it easy to identify the reasons that your friends are skipping out on breakfast at school. Make breakfast the easy choice at your school!
PE is the place to explore ways to stay physically active for life. Has your gym class covered things like yoga, dance, running, and being active outdoors? Or does it mainly focus on competitive sports like baseball or dodge ball where you need a team, athletic skill, and a good aim to have fun? The best PE class is the one that allows you and your friends to discover creative ways to stay healthy and fit that build on your interests while challenging you to be stronger, faster, more balanced, and more active every day. How can you improve PE at your high school?
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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.
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…
Action for Healthy Kids wants you to apply for the UnitedHealth HEROES grant program!
We had a great response this summer to our Students Taking Charge Video Contest! Action for Healthy Kids received 18 videos from students in 12 states—from West Virginia to Missouri to North Carolina to Michigan—showing us the students, teachers, groups, activities, or classes that make each school a healthy place to learn. Voting was intense as 577 students and their families joined out online Students Taking Charge Cause and cast their votes on our Facebook page for their favorite video. But the real surprise was who won!
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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.
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!