From CNN:A growing number of schools in the Northeast are retooling their phys-ed programs to add snowshoeing, an enticement to the video game generation to get outside and make the most of the region's long, cold winters.
"I hate to say we're in a crisis, but we are," Aaron Loukes, a gym teacher at Lin-Wood Elementary School in Lincoln, N.H., said recently while leading 13 first-graders on a snowshoe trek through woods near the school. "We need to get people moving."
For much of the year, that's not so easy. The Northeast is home to most of the nation's roughly 500 school snowshoe programs, many of which sprang up over the past five years as childhood obesity has become a concern. Here, winter can mean months of fitness-quashing frigid temperatures and snow -- and endless hours in front of the tube.
But a loose coalition of educators, public health officials and snowshoe manufacturers hopes to change that with curricula and grants to train and equip teachers and students to embrace this seasonal fitness opportunity.
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