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TeachableMoment Lessons
Featured Lessons
26 prompts with accompanying graphics, providing you with enough opportunities for connection and engagement for every weekday in a month (and a few extras!).
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.
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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Regularly instituting these two approaches in your classroom will build your students' problem-solving skills and create a more congenial classroom atmosphere.
Through an exercise and roleplays, students consider the importance of understanding another person's point of view in solving a conflict.
A series of classroom activities culminate in students interviewing a peacemaker in their school or community.
Well-structured small-group discussion can help students discuss issues of the day that concern them.
In this activity for grades 3-6, students practice the skills of good listening.
These two recent children's books (grades K-12) present a positive opportunity to open up discussions of the Iraq war with students. Both tell the story of Alia Muhammed Baker, the
Encourages students to consider the effect of "put-downs" and to think about how to express "put-ups."
In these two fun classroom activities, students practice sending and receiving messages and consider what communication is.
After two puppets discuss how a bully at their school, youngsters analyze what they've seen and consider how to respond to the bully.
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Francis Perkins would not agree to become FDR's secretary of labor until he met nine bold demands.
Students consider anti-Semitism through reading, discussing, and writing about a recent controversial incident at UCLA.
Students learn about and discuss the US Department of Justice's report on the Ferguson Police Department and consider reforms that would address the injustices described in the
In this brief activity, students explore a key phrase in the women's movement during the 1960s and 70s.
This 10-15-minute activity touches on key arguments for and against the XL Pipeline proposal President Obama just vetoed.
In three readings and discussion, students examine President Obama's proposal for free community college, weigh arguments for and against it, learn about the historical