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.

You Can’t Ignore Me Any Longer posted Apr 14, 2011: Street artist JR brings art to improbable places, creating projects that force us to really see each other.
YES! Recommends: Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots posted Apr 01, 2011: Roots & Shoots animal community service-learning curriculum offers lessons plans, sample campaigns, and resources for K-12 teachers. Access free, downloadable classrooms tools including lessons on hope, endangered species, and multiple intelligences.
Visual Learning: Out of the Blue posted Apr 01, 2011: 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).
Curriculum & Resources: Poetry and Humane Education posted Apr 01, 2011: Poets.org has poems galore for the poetry lover and tips to coax the reluctant teen to try a poem or two. TeachKind's free resources teach students how to respect and co-exist with animals in their communities.
Words That Inspire: The Wild Geese posted Apr 01, 2011: Wendell Berry's poem, "Wild Geese" paints a colorful image of Earth's bounty, inspiring the beloved poet and farmer to be thankful that all we need is around us. Do your students second that notion?
YES! Poster: Jane Goodall’s 10 Best Things We Can Do For Animals by Jane Goodall posted Mar 01, 2011: YES! asked Jane Goodall to tell us what we can do in our everyday lives to care for the animals we love.
Waiting (or Not) for Superman posted Feb 09, 2011: The documentary “Waiting for Superman” has stirred up conversation and debate about one of our nation’s biggest concerns—the state of public education. A follow-up campaign is under way to fix education. NOT Waiting for Superman, initiated by Rethinking Schools, says the film got the message all wrong.
Words That Inspire: It Couldn’t Be Done posted Feb 06, 2011: There are few things that motivate young people more than to be told that something can’t be done. High school student Ashe Jaafaru reads "It Couldn't Be Done", a poem by Edgar Albert Guest.
Who Participated in No Impact Week? Meet the Students! posted Feb 06, 2011: Meet six students who started the New Year tracking their trash, taking record-breaking showers, battling the bus system, and learning that green is the color for all seasons.
YES! Recommends: Centre for Child Honouring, and Voices Education Project posted Feb 06, 2011: If we made children our top priority, would we create a better world? The Centre for Child Honouring and Voices [Education Project] are helping create peaceful, sustainable societies.
Visual Learning: Paper Cranes for Peace posted Feb 06, 2011: 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 peace.
Curriculum & Resources: Engaging Student Families, Adoption in the Classroom posted Feb 06, 2011: Inclusion is one of the best ways to nurture student learners. These two resources offer tips on engaging student families and a positive approach to talking about adoption.
YES! Recommends: Tell Me Your Stories posted Dec 22, 2010: Tell Me Your Stories connects young and older people through oral history interviews. Curriculum, interview templates, and other tools guide students through the interview process.
Words that Inspire: On Facing Judgment by Shannon Hayes posted 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.
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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