Overweight and Obesity
Resources for Schools
Websites
Related MCH Library Resources
- Action for Healthy Kids. Program information and resources to help support positive changes in nutrition and physical activity in schools to address the problem of overweight and obesity. Action for Healthy
Kids partners with schools and families in every state to improve
child and adolescent
health and readiness
to learn through better nutrition and physical activity. Resources include
Wellness Policy Tool. An online tool that outlines a series of steps for developing, implementing, and evaluating a wellness policy that meets a local school district's unique goals for nutrition and physical activity.
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation: Healthy Schools Program. Tools, tips, and resources to implement this program aimed at preventing childhood obesity by encouraging healthy snacks and school meals and physical activity and education among students, teachers, and staff in schools. The alliance is a joint effort of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation.
- American Heart Association (AHA): For the Educator. Program information, lesson plans, and physical education activities and games to teach students about the importance of nutrition and physical activity to good health. School-based programs include Jump Rope for Heart, Hoops for Heart, NFL Play 60 Challenge, Heartsaver CPR in Schools, and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
- Center
for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS): Schools and Childhood
Overweight. Resources about the problem of
child and adolescent overweight and obesity and the
role of school health professionals in responding to this problem.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Healthy Youth! Childhood Obesity.
Data, science-based strategies, policy guidance, and
information about national, state, and local programs to address
child and adolescent obesity. Resources include
School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity. (2011).
School Health Index. A self-assessment and planning tool that schools can use to improve their health and safety policies and programs, including those related to obesity.
- Education
Resources Information Center (ERIC) Database. Information about journal articles, research reports, teaching
guides, curricula, conference papers, and books covering all
aspects of education-related issues. To identify resources on
the topic, click on Advanced Search. Under Search for, select
Descriptors (from Thesaurus) and type obesity in the
Search Term(s) box. Enter a publication date range. Click on
Search to get your results. Use the ERIC
Thesaurus to identify additional search terms for this search
or related searches. ERIC is sponsored by the Department
of Education (ED).
- KidsHealth
in the Classroom.
Health curriculum materials
for students in
preschool through high school.
Materials include discussion questions,
activities, and handouts. Enter obesity in
the search box to get the teaching guides
and supporting materials. Scan the categories on
the left sidebar to view related guides about fitness
and nutrition. KidsHealth is a service of the Nemours
Foundation.
- Leadership for Healthy Communities: Schools. A collection
of materials and tools to improve nutrition and physical
activity in schools to help reverse childhood obesity rates. Leadership for Healthy Communities is a
national program of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
- Let's Move! Tools to help make schools healthier places to learn by providing quality nutrition, integrating physical activity during the day, and teaching children about the
importance of embracing a healthy, active lifestyle. Includes background information
about child and adolescent obesity. Let's Move! is a national initiative to solve the challenge of child
and adolescent obesity.
- Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents knowledge path, family resource brief
- Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families knowledge path
- Nutrition in Children and Adolescents knowledge path, family resource brief, school resource brief
- Physical Activity and Children and Adolescents knowledge path, family resource brief, school resource brief
- School Health resource brief
Overweight and Obesity: School Resource Brief. (June 2011). (Updated: February 2012).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewer: Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.
