Read students interviews with health experts and community leaders.
News, Publications, Art, & Film
By Kids, For Kids
Student illustrations add information about health, wellness, and other topics.
Spotlight
Read our Fall Magazine
In the latest issue of our By Kids, For Kids magazine, reporters wrote about making good decisions. They interview experts on safety, health, noise pollution, and nutrition and reflect on what making good decisions mean in their own lives.
A Night of Healthy Conversations
In the spring of 2025, the Healthy NewsWorks community gathered at IBX in Center City for a night of food and company, with discussions facilitated by Healthy NewsWorks student reporters and screenings of some of the films they produced during the 2024-25 school year.
For Teachers
Check out our classroom activities. Our materials are designed to help educators make the most of the nonfiction resources created by our student journaliststs to bring to their own classrooms and improve media and health literacy in their own schools.
Looking Back on a Year of Making Good Decisions
The 2024-2025 school year was defined by “Making Good Decisions,” a theme that led students to reflect on sleep habits, making friends, healthy snacking, and using social media.
Engaging Our Students in Health & Literacy
Since 2003, Healthy NewsWorks elementary and middle school students have encouraged healthful living by producing accurate and relevant health publications and other types of media for their fellow students, families, and the wider school community. Learn More
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A Message to Our Community
Healthy NewsWorks believes that every child has the right and the need to acquire health knowledge and literacy skills. We seek to develop children’s powers of inquiry and to enable them to share accurate health information with their community. We design our work to be carried out in an atmosphere of respect for children, families, and teachers, and to help pave the pathway to equity.
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