Kids Learn Healthy Cooking

For several weeks, a Boys & Girls Club offered an opportunity to have kids learn healthy cooking, and have fun doing it. Over a dozen kids got to learn about healthy cooking through a class that was presented by ChopChopKids, a non profit that publishes a cooking...

Kids Cooking with School Garden Ingredients

It’s a new experience for kids cooking with school garden ingredients, as they learn too cook, mix, measure, chop, and prepare fresh produce they have harvested themselves. For example, the strong odor of onions in the cafeteria of McKinley Elementary School in...

TED Talk Style Presentations for Kids

Fifth graders are getting the opportunity to prepare Ted Talk style presentations for kids, doing research on topics, and learning how to present what they know in engaging talks. At Greenwich ISD in Connecticut, fifth graders are completing a research project on a...

Kids Say Yes to Healthy Foods in the Lunchroom

Having friends working in the cafeteria is helping kids say yes to healthy foods in the lunchroom. Four Hutchinson Middle School students decided to help the kitchen staff serve lunch to their classmates, as part of the school’s Students in Action Club. “I...