Confronting Childhood Obesity with FACS Education

As a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, you are an important player in the national effort to confront childhood obesity. In this issue of FACS Classroom Solutions, we offer some tips to support you in your efforts to promote healthy living to your students and others.

Professional Development

Stepping Up to the HealthierUS Schools Challenge

Now a part of Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign, the HealthierUS Schools Challenge encourages schools to serve more nutritious meals and offers monetary awards to help them achieve this goal.
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Rigor, Relevance, & Relationships

Encourage Students to Model Behavior for Good Health

Healthy lifestyles are contagious. FACS students can be positive influences at home and at school when they demonstrate and encourage healthy habits.
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Technology Solutions

Five iPhone® Apps for Healthy Living.

Some of Apple's many iPhone® applications can be great tools for supporting health and fitness. We've selected five that will help you and your students eat healthy and stay active.
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Perkins & Funding

Race to the Top Fund

States that lead the way in reforms can compete for $4.35 billion in federal aid as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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