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TeachableMoment Lessons
Featured Lessons
Six classroom activities focused on sharing appreciations and gratitude that you can use this month, or anytime!
A collection of tips, strategies and lessons to help you focus on community care in your classrooms; ensure all students feel heard; and address current events in your class.
A collection of activities and strategies designed for exploring and discussing current events with elementary-age children.
SEL & RP
Activities to support students' social and emotional learning and restorative practices
Current Issues
Classroom activities to engage students in learning about and discussing issues in the news
Tips & Ideas
Guidance and inspiration to help build skills and community in your classroom and school
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Students explore terminology around power in light of Tyre Nichols' life and death, and then reimagine power through a positive lens.
This lesson provides space for students to engage with the concept of intersectionality, and honor special women.
Watch, read about — and try! — this 'snippet of magic' for younger elementary students.
Looking for engaging activities on amazing women and their movements? Here’s our collection!
How can we turn a rough day with students into a teachable moment? Here's one teacher's strategy for a "reset" that promotes accountability.
School boards around the country are embroiled in controversies on issues ranging from the rights of transgender students to teaching on race. Should students have a say on school
Young people are exposed to more troubling, tragic, and controversial events than ever before, often starting at a young age. Here are steps we can take to address upsetting events
In honor of Black History Month, consider these lessons on everything from the story of Black farmers to the history of voter suppression.
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In honor of the brave ones who have left behind everything they know, for an uncertain search of a chance to survive and, ultimately, thrive, I invite you to think of this: In
Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote? Students learn about the debate to lower - or raise - the age, and consider the pros and cons.
Young people sued the state of Montana seeking climate justice - and won! Students learn about the new ruling and what it means going forward.
This start-of-the-school year reflection invites students to connect to their natural surroundings. With a focus on gratitude, students explore how nature positively impacts them.
This lesson includes two readings on the issue of sweatshops and child labor abroad, each with questions for class discussion.
When wildfires cause a smoky, scary day, this listening circle can provide comfort and support for both young people and adults.