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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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The shooting in Colorado Springs is on the minds of many young people - and adults. How can we create space for students to reflect on such upsetting news?
Lessons to explore gratitude and American history surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday.
Students share holiday traditions and experiences, and acknowledge the range of emotions that accompany the season.
Students discuss evidence that meat production contributes to climate change, explore efforts to make food systems more sustainable, and share their own consumption choices.
Students learn about the demonstrations that have spread across Iran demanding women's rights and discuss how they relate to what is happening in other parts of the world
An unusual hurricane season opens up an exploration of the climate crisis and steps toward climate justice.
Students celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by uplifting - and making a gallery of - all things Hispanic in our lives.
Educators learn about the neuroscience of storytelling and experience for themselves a storytelling activity they can use with students. The activity is the first session in our
Air travel is becoming one of the worst contributors to climate change. In this activity, students read about and discuss the impact of air travel on the climate crisis and what we
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Students learn about and discuss why child labor violations are growing in the U.S. today, how people successfully fought child labor in the past, and what can be done about it
Elementary students hear the Banana Boat song, learn about Belafonte, and sing their own call-and-response song about justice.
A listing of novels and movies for high school students and adults exploring dystopic futures and the social and practical effects of climate change.
A listing of novels that take a positive, visionary approach to the subject of climate change, focusing on fighting and adapting to climate change. Includes discussion questions.
A listing of short stories on climate, with discussion questions to get your class reading, writing, and discussing climate fiction.
Students reflect on their feelings about standardized tests - and consider strategies to handle stress.