Project Templates
Walk or Ride to School
Do you want to change the transportation culture in your school so that more students to have the option to bike, walk, skate, or take public transit? By promoting active transportation, you improve air quality, help the environment, reduce traffic accidents, and add physical activity to your daily routine. Walking or biking with friends can be a fun way to start and end your school day. Become part of a global movement making streets safe for everyone, including children, high school students, cyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles. Does your school consider walkers and cyclists or is it a car-only zone? Investigate
how your school encourages different kinds of transportation!
Eat Local at Your School
Are you interested in having better-tasting, fresher fruits and vegetables in your cafeteria? Would you like to go green as you eat greens? You’re not alone! Join high school students from across the country who are eating healthier, improving the environment, and learning new skills in advertising, accounting, and food production through school gardens. By planting a school garden with your Students Taking Charge group, you can grow fruits and vegetables that students enjoy and provide your school with very fresh and very local healthy food choices. You can also sell your produce to students, parents, and community members to keep your garden growing for years to come! Would a garden work for your school? Investigate whether your community is ready for an “edible schoolyard!”
Build Your Own After-School Program
Not every student is interested in playing competitive sports. Most students would like non-competitive options that allow them to explore their interests, challenge themselves, hang out with friends, and be healthy every day. Why not energize your after-school program by adding hiking, yoga, dance, and martial arts activities to the mix? By offering popular physical activity options after-school, your school can make getting an hour of physical activity each day easy, fun, and convenient.
Create a Healthy School Market
Looking for a way to improve healthy eating, develop entrepreneurial skills, and learn about issues that affect your health and the health of the community? Consider starting a healthy school market. A school market is a place where students can sell fruits, vegetables, smoothies, snacks, beverages, and other products to their friends, teachers, school staff, and community members. A successful school store can raise money for student clubs while improving healthy food choices for students who are on the go before school, after school, or at special events. Would a healthy school market work in your school? Read more!
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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!