Curriculum & Resources

Curricula and lesson plans on topics ranging from climate change to happiness.

Curriculum & Resources: Teaching Economics As If People Mattered

posted Jun 30, 2009

United for a Fair Economy’s (UFE) economic education curricula and workshops are dynamic resources for high school and adult continuing education teachers, and college faculty.

Visual Learning: Self Portrait in Waste

posted Apr 10, 2009

Use this photo by Chris Jordan to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.

Connect and Engage :: Food Stamps and Seafood

posted Apr 10, 2009

What would you eat for only $3 each day? What’s the difference between freshwater and farm raised fish? You and your students will take your eating awareness to another level with these two resources. Your new knowledge will make you think before you buy.

YES! Recommends: Sustainable Table

posted Apr 10, 2009

The multi-media resources from Sustainable Table are designed to awaken consumers to the problems with factory farming and to promote sustainable food as a desirable and more responsible alternative.

Visual Learning: Ending Hunger

posted Mar 16, 2009

Use this photo to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.

Connect and Engage: Local Food

posted Mar 11, 2009

Here’s an array of colorful, practical, and compelling materials that you can use not only in your classroom but also in your profession and everyday life.

YES! Recommends: Food For Everyone

posted Mar 11, 2009

Raising youth: growing food, justice, and leadership in your classroom. These articles from the Food For Everyone issue of YES! Magazine embody the possibilities when we take our health and our food into our own hands.

Visual Learning: Week of Nonviolence

posted Jan 27, 2009

Use this photo to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.

Connect and Engage: Making History

posted Jan 16, 2009

To teach happiness, be happy. Teachers, in particular, need support to be passionate and content in a challenging profession. The Center for Courage and Renewal's "Courage to Teach" supports this belief with essays, articles, and a retreat program.

YES! Recommends: Project Happiness :: 7 Doors Project

posted Jan 16, 2009

Take your students on a journey of self-discovery that will ultimately lead them to understanding not only what is happiness for themselves, but also what is happiness for others. Each door represents a facet of your path to happiness, and hosts a multimedia array of interviews, photos, films, questionnaires, and activities.

Curriculum and Resources: Rescue the Planet

by Stephanie McMillan

posted Dec 29, 2008

A comic strip by Stephanie McMillan with additional curriculum materials on analyzing comics and cartoons.

Visual Learning: NYC Pillow Fight

posted Dec 29, 2008

Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).

Connect and Engage: Happiness

posted Dec 17, 2008

These two top-notch resources offer opportunities for you and your students to truly understand the benefits of giving, and the strengths and virtues that make people and communities thrive.

Happiness in the Classroom and Beyond

posted Dec 17, 2008

Classroom resources from the Sustainable Happiness issue of YES! Magazine.

Connect and Engage: Addressing Fear

posted Oct 27, 2008

Here are lesson plans and how-to resources forcoming to terms with false assumptions about immigrants, the current economic crisis, and walls that separate important relationships. Simply put, it’s about addressing fear with clarity and calmness.