VIEW IN BROWSER    SUMMER 2010 :: GREATEST HITS   We pay close attention to what newsletter features you like (and don’t). In this special edition, you’ll find the most read items—our “greatest hits” from the past year. Rediscover popular lesson plans, posters, and other classroom resources. We’ll be back in August with a newsletter full of teaching tools on water and watersheds. Guaranteed to float your boat! Congratulations on a successful school year. Enjoy your summer! SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORKS Jing Fong Education Outreach Manager, YES! Magazine P.S. Spread the word about the resources the YES! education program has to offer: forward this email to every teacher you know!   HAPPINESS What makes us happy? Resources and stories from YES! Magazine’s “Sustainable Happiness” issue brought smiles to teachers nationwide. Explore Project Happiness’s 7 Doors Project, where students can create digital representations of their paths to happiness. 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy Living Large in a Tiny House How Thankful Are You?   SOCIAL JUSTICE & HUMAN RIGHTS How do we help students learn to build a fair and just world? Curriculum from the Zinn Education Project addresses racism in a more accurate, honest way. Teaching Tolerance’s Speak Up! lesson plans give students tools to respond to everyday bigotry. And TransFair USA’s Focus on Fair Trade K-12 curriculum uses coffee, bananas, and chocolate to teach thoughtfully about global interdependence and economic inequity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Americans Who Tell the Truth   SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability is not just about the environment. It’s also about fair economies and social justice. Here are organizations that “get it.” Story of Stuff’s video and activities explore how stuff impacts cultures and the environment. No Impact Project’s one-week carbon cleansing is an opportunity for students to trade old wasteful habits for more earth-friendly ones. Facing the Future’s service-learning lessons help students create positive, healthy, sustainable communities. The Once-ler, from The Lorax Everybody Eats: How a Community Food System Works   REAL WORLD EDUCATION Meaningful learning isn’t about memorizing facts. It flourishes in the context of people and everyday life, and happens in and beyond the classroom. Essay lessons from Rethinking Schools use poetry, math, and historical fiction as vehicles for personal exploration and critical thinking. 12 Things You Might Not Have Learned Yet “You Are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring” Are You Really What You Wear?   YOUR STORIES Here are treasured stories from your colleagues that have made you nod your head with an uh-huh, smile with gratitude and admiration, and laugh out loud. Free to Be Me Anthropology 101 Discovering the Beauty of Teenagers Why Race Has Everything To Do With How I Teach   EXEMPLARY ESSAY PROJECT The YES! Exemplary Essay Project demonstrates how teachers can use YES! Magazine stories as the basis of thought-provoking writing lessons. It also gives students an opportunity to voice their opinions and show off their stellar compositions. Many thanks to students from Jann Gates’ “Modern Dilemma” senior seminar class at Santa Fe Waldorf High School for their participation. Here is the essay we selected as the most well-written and compelling: “Fill the Void,” by Eleanor Stevens, in response to the YES! article, “Iraq Veterans, Activists for Peace” (Sarah Olson, May 2007).    say yes! to free…    A FREE TEACHER SUBSCRIPTION Thanks to the generosity of YES! donors, qualified teachers can apply for a 1-year introductory subscription. Subscribe today! A FREE LIBRARIAN SUBSCRIPTION Share YES! 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