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Teacher
Resources TeachableMoment.Org
For a wide range of free classroom activities (grades K - 12) visit
our website www.teachablemoment.org.
They're updated frequently! Online
Store Below
are teacher resources available for sale. Visit
our Online Store to order. 4Rs
LEARNING KIT(grades K-5)
Literacy and social/emotional learning are
not mutually exclusive!
The 4Rs (Reading, Writing, Respect & Resolution),
Morningsdie Center's innovative literature-based conflict resolution curriculum
for grades K-5, uses high-quality children's literature to help students develop
essential social skills and create a peaceable classroom climate. Each 4Rs Learning
Kit includes everything you need to implement the curriculum: the teaching guide
for their grade; the seven children's books, a Hugg-A-Planet, and puppets (for
grades K-2) or Kooshballs (grades 3-5). 4Rs Learning Kits are available for $200
per kit, plus $20 for shipping and handling.
Click here to order. ARAB
PEOPLES: PAST & PRESENT TEACHING KIT (grades 3-6)
Teacher-friendly
tools to promote intercultural understanding.
This Morningside Center
teaching guide, with accompanying children's books and videos, will increase your
students' knowledge of Arabs and Islam--and teach them strategies for countering
teasing and harassment. Arab Peoples is available for $200 per kit, plus
$20 for shipping and handling. Click
here to order. NUCLEAR
CONTROVERSY SOURCEBOOK (H.S.)
Everything you need to make a critical
issue come alive for students.
The Sourcebook includes a comprehensive
overview of the controversy over nuclear weapons; notes for teaching about controversial
subjects in the classroom; resource documents, activities and lessons; and Document
Based Questions (DBQ) useful in preparing for Regents Exams. Presented in a loose-leaf
binder - easy to use and update. The Nuclear Controversy Sourcebook is available
for $15, plus shipping and handling. Click
here to order. NUCLEAR
CONTROVERSY: 5 LESSONS
(H.S.)
Should the
U.S. work to eliminate nuclear weapons?
Interactive and engaging lessons designed to fit into the social studies curriculum
and align with New York teaching guidelines. Can be used alone or to supplement
the Sourcebook described above. Spiral bound; $10 plus shipping & handling.
Click here to order. MAKING
THE WORLD FEEL BETTER: The P.S. 230 Mural Project (video)
A school
community unites in the wake of 9/11.
An inspiring 20-minute video about
how students, teachers, and parents at Brooklyn's PS 230 addressed their grief
and overcame divisions by creating a mural together. Available for $12 (including
postage and handling)
from Morningside Center. Click
here to order. A
SCHOOL OF OUR OWN: Parents, Power & Community at the East Harlem Block
Schools (book)
"A powerful story of the generation of
hope and of the power of a community to educate its young."
--Educator/author
Herb Kohl
Morningside Center Executive Director Tom Roderick's moving book
tells how in 1965 a group of Puerto Rican parents created better schools for their
children, led an effective campaign to expand and improve early childhood services
in NYC--and empowered themselves in the process. Click
here to order. CHANCE
FOR PEACE
Songs of Reflection and Hope for a New World
(CD)
A diverse group of musicians assembled to perform (and in some cases, create)
songs about peace and war to benefit the work of Morningside Center. A project
of Roland Marconi of Media Dream Productions. Click
here to order.
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