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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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An overview that gives special attention to Iraq's oil industry, and suggestions for discussion and study of Iraq's future and the US's leadership and credibility.
Questions and information to help students consider the conflict.
Readings (including an abridged dictionary of the war) and activities to encourage critical thinking.
Most Americans are "energy illiterate." These lessons for high school students promote energy literacy, especially about oil. We begin with a student energy quiz, followed by three
Help your students prepare for the NY Regents Exam with these document-based question exercises modeled closely on the format used in the exam.
Help your students prepare for the NY Regents Exam with these document-based question exercises modeled closely on the format used in the exam.
Help your students prepare for the NY Regents Exam with these document-based question exercises modeled closely on the format used in the exam.
Readings and activities on the history of the U.S.-North Korea relationship & the current tension over nuclear weapons.
Readings and activities to help students consider and debate the pros and cons.
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Can we trust what the presidential candidates are telling us? How can we know what is true and not true? This brief classroom lesson explores fact-checking and the 2016
Students share their thoughts and feelings about the experience of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old boy, a Muslim, who was arrested when school staff feared that the clock he had
In this brief lesson, students learn about and discuss the controversy over Hillary Clinton's private email system as U.S. Secretary of State.
Students learn about the debate in Europe over how to handle the current influx of refugees, consider the difference between refugees and migrants, and reflect on a poem by one
Our age-appropriate classroom lessons and activities for grades K-12 aim to deepen your students' understanding of September 11 and develop their critical thinking skills. The
In this brief activity, students consider how the storm, and the rebuilding of New Orleans, affected people differently, depending on their income and race.