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How it feels to interview an expert

How it feels to interview an expert

March 2020 … Ava is an 8-year-old health reporter at Whitehall Elementary School. Her newspaper team talked with a Drexel University public health professor about the coronavirus on March 24….
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Q&A about the virus

March 2020 … Eight Whitehall Healthy Reporter third graders conducted their second interview by video this school year on Tuesday, March 24. For 45 minutes, the Norristown students posed nearly two dozen…
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Vaccines are a lifesaver

March 2020 … Vaccines protect children against diseases that historically have hurt children, according to Dr. Paul Offit of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In a video interview with Phillip, an East Norriton Middle School…
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Find answers to coronavirus questions

March 2020 … Healthy NewsWorks has created a new web page dedicated to helping kids understand the coronavirus and related topics. It’s called “Making Sense of the Virus.” The page…
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Launching Health Beat Live

March 2020 … Maggie, a sixth grader at East Norriton Middle School, kicked off the Health Beat Live, a video series focused on COVID-19 and related issues by Healthy NewsWorks…
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Hats off to East Norriton

March 2020 … Dr. Robert Sharrar, a former chief epidemiologist for Philadelphia, fielded questions about the coronavirus from 31 East Norriton Middle School students on March 18 via a video…
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A message regarding coronavirus

March 2020 … We at Healthy NewsWorks hope that you and your family are safe and well as the spread of a coronavirus brings many changes to all our lives….
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VIDEO: Hearty Kids Spotlight on exercise

March 2020 … The role of exercise in keeping your heart healthy is explained in a new kid-friendly video produced by Healthy NewsWorks. “A heart-healthy activity is anything that gets…
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Introducing our 2020 health leaders

March 2020…Protecting waterways, ending gun violence, reducing waste, and finding non-addictive treatments for pain. These are among the ways 10 Philadelphia-area health leaders interviewed recently by Healthy NewsWorks student journalists…
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How to make the world healthier

March 2020 … Healthy NewsWorks teachers this year are asking their student health reporters to respond to the following prompt: Describe a way that you can make your community a…
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