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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:: 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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Words that Inspire: On Facing Judgment
by Shannon Hayesposted Dec 22, 2010 - Facing judgment is a life skill that teachers can help their students learn, so they may deal with others' opinions—fair or not—with confidence.
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Visual Learning: Sacred Water
posted Dec 22, 2010 - 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 water.
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Curriculum & Resources: Getting Boys to Read, Story of Food
posted Dec 22, 2010 - Two resources that explore how to get boys to be lifelong readers and where our food comes from.
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Words that Inspire: Stories that Light Up the Dark
by Sanjay Khannaposted Oct 13, 2010 - The Experiences of Our Ancestors Offer Us Wisdom for Surviving Today's Crises. By: Sanjay Khanna
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Visual Learning: Cone in the Cob
posted Oct 13, 2010 - 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 simplicity.
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YES! Recommends: Global Oneness Project
posted Oct 13, 2010 - YES! recommends the Global Oneness Project for their inspiring and richly produced resources that explore how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
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Curriculum & Resources: Individual and Community Resilience
posted Oct 13, 2010 - What makes teenage brains unique? What happens when people from all walks of life play an alternate reality game to create a better future? Lesson plans from Inside the Teenage Brain and World Without Oil.
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Curriculum & Resources: Water
posted Aug 01, 2010 - Measure your water footprint with H2O Conserve's easy-to-use calculator, and wrap your head around the impact of the BP oil spill using this trio of classroom resources.
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YES! Recommends: Water Environment Federation
posted Aug 01, 2010 - The Water Environment Federation offers communities and students a myriad of learning opportunities to protect and preserve the Earth's water resources.
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Words That Inspire: Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande
by Jimmy Santiago Bacaposted Aug 01, 2010 - Poetry: Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande, by Jimmy Santiago Baca, with Note to Educators.
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YES! Recommends—Zinn Education Project
posted Apr 28, 2010 - The Zinn Education Project helps make sense of race and the role it has played in shaping society.
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Words That Inspire: A Mix of Books (finally) on Mixed-Race People
posted Apr 28, 2010 - Multiracial persons are the fastest growing demographic group in the country, but still gaining recognition. Now mixed race people can see themselves in books and be proud of who they are.
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Curriculum & Resources: Making Sense of the 2010 Census
posted Apr 28, 2010 - Who is America? This bundle of lesson plans and activities will help your students understand the basics of the every-decade census and why they should care about what’s at stake.
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Visual Learning: Happiness Is Where You Find It
posted Apr 28, 2010 - 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 happiness.
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Words That Inspire: Yes
by Charles John Paceposted Mar 26, 2010 - Poetry: yes, by Charles John Pace, with Note to Educators.
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