Curriculum & Resources
Curricula and lesson plans on topics ranging from climate change to happiness.
In each of the following categories, you'll find a variety of teaching tools for immediate use in the classroom or for building your own curriculum. These resources include: lessons, curriculum, poetry, videos, projects, stories, and essays.
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Photo by nezumichuu
:: Teaching Happiness
Discover the good life through resilience, creativity, and community.
:: Teaching Outside the Box
Meaningful learning pushes boundaries with action, inquiry, and innovation.
:: Teaching Peace & Justice
Paths to peace, inclusion, equality, and compassion for all.
:: Teaching Sustainability
How to build a robust economy, healthy planet, and just world for all.
:: Visual Learning
Use the wonder of a photo to engage in deep discussions and understanding.
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Visual Learning: What Was Saved
posted Apr 18, 2014 - This Visual Learning lesson will inspire talks about preparing for natural disasters and how students can reach out to those in need of relief aid.
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Curriculum & Resources: Institute for Democratic Education in America
posted Apr 18, 2014 - IDEA is a movement building organization that showcases what powerful learning looks like today—and what it can look like in the future. Its network of teachers, schools and communities, build relationships, share high quality resources, and work together to help shape the future of democratic schools. Featured resources include IDEA’s online library, Learning Report, plus the documentary, A Year at Mission Hill.
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Curriculum and Resources: Rethinking Schools
posted Apr 18, 2014 - Rethinking Schools' unique lessons plans are written in essay form from the perspective of the teacher. It is a catalyst and leader in education form, with an emphasis on race and social equity. Take a look at these resources to get inspired.
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Curriculum & Resources: What Kids Can Do
posted Mar 17, 2014 - What Kids Can Do uses digital, print, and broadcast media to showcase the power youth can achieve when they are taken seriously. Check out writing curricula, stories, and other powerful learning resources that give voice to the opinions and talents of young people, particularly those compromised by poverty, race, and language.
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Curriculum & Resources: Food Literacy Quiz
posted Feb 17, 2014 - From Nourish and Food Day, a quiz that tests how food literate you are. The 15 questions reveal facts about food and its relationship to the bigger food system, and the community-at-large.
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Curriculum & Resources: Why Women's Stories Matter
posted Feb 17, 2014 - March is Women's History Month. In this New York Times Learning Network lesson plan, students examine their school curriculum and personal experiences on reading stories about and by women. Through this analysis, they will deepen their understanding of why women's stories matter.
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Poster: What Healthy Diets Have in Common
posted Feb 17, 2014 - This colorful poster compares eight healthy diets—vegan, Mediterranean, ancestral, glycemic idex, anti-inflammatory, raw, traditional Asian, and Natl. Institutes of Health—and shares what they have in common(besides kale) and how they are different.
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Visual Learning: A Slow, Press-ious Process
posted Feb 17, 2014 - With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not). In this case it's all about local, sustainable farming.
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Curriculum & Resources: Health Effects of Caffeine
posted Jan 28, 2014 - Did you know that kids aged 12-17 are the fastest growing population of caffeine consumers? This infographic shows which countries consume the most caffeine and highlights some not-so-savory side effects of your morning coffee.
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Curriculum & Resources: Jazz in America
posted Jan 28, 2014 - In order to provide an ongoing education about jazz for our nation's students, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has developed Jazz in America, an Internet-based jazz curriculum for social studies, American history, and music classes in the United States.
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Visual Learning: With These Hands
posted Jan 28, 2014 - This Visual Learning exercise will get your students thinking about poverty—here and in other countries—and will help them explore a creative approach to solving poverty.
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YES! Recommends: Sustainable Table
posted Jan 28, 2014 - YES! recommends Sustainable Table, a program of Grace Communications Foundation, for its well-rounded resources that educate and motivate people of all ages to take good care of their bodies and our planet.
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Curriculum & Resources: No Impact Project
posted Nov 18, 2013 - No Impact Project curriculum and No Impact Week signup.
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Visual Learning: Knock, Knock. Who's There?
posted Nov 18, 2013 - Visual Learning November 2013. Literacy lesson that leads to deeper discussion and understanding of people experiencing homelessness.
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20 Ways to Practice Gratitude
posted Nov 18, 2013 - 20 Ways to Practice Gratitude Poster for November Newsletter.
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