By Danetta, Jason, and AMY Northwest Healthy Bulldog staff | When you need to go somewhere nearby, choosing to walk or bike instead of riding in a car helps keep the air…
By Bela, Aaron, and Jericho, AMY Northwest Healthy Bulldog | When you enter the playground from the parking lot at AMY Northwest, you are met with benches and tables. Students…
“Special Feature on Health and Climate Change,” a new film from Healthy NewsWorks student journalists, is now available for your viewing! The student-reported film, broken into two 10-minute segments, features…
By DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal (8A) staff | Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a challenge, according to Ms. Dickson, DePaul school counselor. When people face problems and…
School’s Peace Room is a place to regroup, chill out
By DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal (8B) staff | DePaul Assistant Principal Ms. Welsh said she felt the school could use a place where children could work through their emotions away from the…
When Joe Caesar was growing up, his mother led cleanup projects in their North Philadelphia neighbor- hood in Philadelphia. She often brought Joe along. He’d pick up trash and plant trees and…
By Eleanor Emlen Healthy Roar Cub Reporters | Yoga is a way to relax your body by breathing and stretching your muscles, according to kidshealth.org, a website with trustworthy medical…
Help us build a healthy future for Healthy NewsWorks
Little did we know when Healthy NewsWorks published its first student newspaper 20 years ago that we would reach thousands of children with our unique multidisciplinary program of literacy, journalism,…
By Eleanor Emlen Healthy Roar reporters | Trees are important for our health and environment. Healthy Roar reporters viewed the TED-Ed video, What happens if you cut down all of a city’s trees?,…
By Eleanor Emlen Healthy Roar reporters | Have you ever wondered about the new trees that are planted in Philadelphia and how they got there? Emlen Healthy Roar reporters recently learned…
