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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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Students will: consider different natural disasters look at events in Japan since the massive earthquake on March 11, 2011 read and discuss quotes from Japanese people and others
After viewing a short video clip, students consider the effect all our waste has on the environment and develop a 'reduce, reuse, recyle' action plan.
With the help of a short video clip, students explore the 'life cycle' of a plastic bag and develop a 'reduce, reuse, recycle' action plan.
Through three readings, students examine U.S. joblessness and hunger as well as the country's huge deficit, then consider conflicting views on how to address these problems
A student reading explores the debate over the agency's "enhanced interrogation techniques." Instructions for how to formulate questions for a student inquiry follow.
Includes additional action opportunities and also lists useful websites. A relatively new one is the Alliance for Climate Protection, an organization founded last year by Al Gore
A student reading explores why gas prices are rising. A Document-Based Question has students consider competing views on what to do about it.
After a brief reading and a sampling of news reports, students consider the role of bias and opinion in the news.
An overview of income tax laws and the accompanying chart provide the basis for student inquiry into who benefited most from the Bush tax cuts. The questions and assignment that
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Students consider what it means to be an ally and to stand up for justice by examining a famous photo of a protest at the 1968 Olympics and then learning about and discussing the
This activity is part of the Anti-Defamation League's Table Talk series, which provides conversation starters, questions, and resources for parents to talk with their children
Students discuss the definition of fascism and consider charges from the left and right that GOP candidate Donald Trump's stances are fascist.
Through readings, video and discussion, students learn about the Paris climate conference, underlying issues, and popular efforts to address climate change.
Students learn about and discuss what is at stake at the Paris Climate Summit and consider the growing international movement for action on climate change.
This activity uses tweets to help cultivate caring and compassion in the wake of terrorist attacks on Paris and elsewhere. Please also see these general guidelines for discussing