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Teaching Outside the Box

Meaningful learning pushes boundaries with action, inquiry, and innovation.

Rescue the Planet

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

Stephanie McMillan Dec 29, 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

Connect and Engage: Elections

Use this election season to hone your students' skills in media literacy, deciphering political cartoons, and evaluating candidate voting records.

Jing Fong Sep 09, 2008

Debate Watching 101

The League of Women Voters’ Debate Watching Tools include Debate Watching 101, How to Judge a Candidate, and a candidate scorecard. Watching a debate is more exciting as a group. So, gather your students and be part of history!

League of Women Voters Sep 09, 2008

5 Ways to Make History

Elections aren’t until November. But the heart of the process is going on right now. Here are my top 5 ideas for making a difference—and staying sane—in the coming months.

Fran Korten Jul 02, 2008

Teaching with the News

Lessons Plans on Foreign Policy from the Choices Program

Jing Fong Jun 02, 2008

Teaching Climate: Digital Story Telling

Lesson plans from BRIDGES to Understanding

Apr 04, 2008

Lesson Plan Guidelines: Using YES! Stories in Class

YES! for Youth curriculum materials are based on articles published in the pages of ad-free YES! magazine. They are designed to help students explore positive solutions to social justice and environmental challenges.

YES! for Youth Education Program May 18, 2005

Questions for Students: Bringing Biodiesel from Colorado to Colombia

Questions for reflection and discussion from the article "Bringing Biodiesel from Colorado to Colombia"

YES! for Youth Education Program Mar 10, 2005

Into-Through-Beyond: a lesson-planning framework for using YES! in the classroom

One of the goals of our YES! For Teachers education outreach program is to help educators make the content in our magazine more accessible to their students.

Kim Corrigan Aug 08, 2004

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