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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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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
The nation's largest private employer just raised its wages. This short activity has students consider the significance of Walmart's move and what motivated it.
This brief activity focuses on the African American girl who refused to give up her seat on the bus, months before Rosa Parks touched off the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Please
A brief activity on the movement to get colleges, cities, churches and other entities to divest from fossil fuels, pegged to Global Divestment Day on Feb. 13-14, 2015.
This brief activity kicks off Black History Month by examining King's letter from a Birmingham jail in light of current events.
A short activity has students consider President Obama's proposal for free community college.
Students consider responses to the attack on Charlie Hebdo from multiple points of view by examining tweets containing different expressions of solidarity, and create their own
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Through tweets, readings, and small-group discussion, students grapple with the #MeToo movement, and how it relates to the power -or lack of power - of women.
We all have self-talk. Fortunately, we, and our students, can learn to shape what that self-talk is.
The tax bill moving through Congress would affect many aspects of our lives. In this lesson, students learn about and discuss the bill and the debate surrounding it.
Students learn about people around the globe who are being forced from their homes because of climate change, and think about how we as a society should respond. This companion
Students learn about a few of the thousands of people who have fled Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. In small groups, students discuss their stories and consider how they may be
America is in the grips of a nationwide opioid epidemic. In this lesson, students think critically about the opioid crisis, its origins, and potential solutions.