Visual Learning: Self Portrait in Waste 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. Jing Fong Apr 10, 2009
Connect and Engage: Food Stamps and Seafood 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. Jing Fong Apr 10, 2009
YES! Recommends: Sustainable Table 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. Jing Fong Apr 10, 2009
Visual Learning: Ending Hunger 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. Jing Fong Mar 16, 2009
Connect and Engage: Local Food 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. Jing Fong Mar 11, 2009
YES! Recommends: Food For Everyone 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. Jing Fong Mar 11, 2009
Visual Learning: Week of Nonviolence 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. Jing Fong Jan 27, 2009
Connect and Engage: Making History 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. Jing Fong Jan 16, 2009
YES! Recommends: Project Happiness :: 7 Doors Project 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. Jing Fong Jan 16, 2009
Rescue the Planet A comic strip by Stephanie McMillan with additional curriculum materials on analyzing comics and cartoons. Stephanie McMillan Dec 29, 2008
Visual Learning: NYC Pillow Fight 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). Jing Fong Dec 29, 2008
Connect and Engage: Happiness 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. Jing Fong Dec 17, 2008
Happiness in the Classroom and Beyond Classroom resources from the Sustainable Happiness issue of YES! Magazine. Jing Fong Dec 17, 2008
Connect and Engage: Addressing Fear 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. Jing Fong Oct 27, 2008
Speak Up! Six Steps to Speaking Up Against Everyday Bigotry Teaching Tolerance's Speak Up! initiative helps individuals stand up to everyday prejudice. Learn not only about injustice, but how to stand up to it. Jing Fong Oct 26, 2008
