Visual Learning: Gone Fishing
This Visual Learning Lesson will get your students thinking about the struggles of living off the land and water.
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Discovering the Beauty of Teenagers
We tend to be afraid of those who are different from us. For John Hasyn, it was teenagers. Despite his feelings of intimidation, the Canadian-based photographer chose to work full-on with Inuit youth in Nunavut. What he discovered changed his perspective forever.
10 Little and Big Things You Can Do
There is no one simple thing to do to change our consumption patterns, because the set of problems we’re addressing just isn’t simple. But everyone can make a difference, and the bigger your action the bigger the difference you’ll make.
Visual Learning: Walking Slowly
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.
Visual Learning: Art Cars at Burning Man
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
Visual Learning: Salt of the Earth
This Visual Learning Lesson will get your students thinking about the dilemmas of poor countries with rich natural resources.
Anthropology 101: How to Change the World
Professor Tom Murphy wanted his students to reconnect with nature. Now, they work beside farmers, fishermen, wastewater technicians, environmental groups, and Native American leaders through an award-winning service learning program.
Visual Learning: Tapped Out
This Visual Learning Lesson will get your students thinking about the pros and cons of bottled water.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Into-Through-Beyond: a lesson-planning framework for using YES! in the classroom
A brief outline of well-known planning technique that can help teachers make YES! content more meaningful, applicable and interesting to their students. Along with sharing the technique, we also provide an example of using it with a YES! article, and then offer some specific guidelines for effective curriculum planning.
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