TeachableMoment Lessons

Nineteen classroom activities and guidelines to help you and your students get your virtual school year off to a good start.

Students reflect on the issues they care about in the 2020 presidential election, consider their sources of information about those issues, and discuss polarization and the need to

Students consider what “white supremacy” means, what groups in society have supremacy, and explore the origins of white supremacy through a short video and discussion.

Seeing our capacity to effect change and working with others to make it can be a powerful self-help strategy. Here are some ways to support students in acting on the issues they

This activity invites students to hear the words of Jacob Blake’s mother and sister, and to reflect on their own thoughts and feelings about the police shooting in Kenosha

Activities to help middle and high school students develop the key self-care practice of positive self-talk, from affirmations to gratitude.

Activities to help elementary students develop the key self-care practice of positive self-talk, from affirmations to gratitude.

Will voter suppression skew the results of the 2020 election? Students examine current efforts to suppress voting in the context of U.S. history and learn about efforts to defend

Create connections and invite creativity through this virtual or in-person activity in which students share an intriguing object, then write and share a poem about a classmate’s