Teaching Resources

An activity booklet for children, in which they can join Wrigley the dog as she helps her family prepare for wildfires and smoke by staying informed, gathering emergency supplies, and filling out a backpack emergency card.

This article shares different types of metacognitive strategies for use in the classroom. Within this article are additional resources for students to reflect on their learning and for educators to use to promote metacognition in their classrooms.

Making quick mental calculations can be complex, but it's better to readjust in response to the natural pulse of a class. Christina "V" Villarreal, attuned to these immediate needs, exercises plasticity in her lesson plans and prioritizes spontaneous...

Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

The Climate Box consists of an illustrated textbook, climate quiz, map, and poster, that can provide students with important information on issues related to global climate change in an interesting, attractive, and entertaining way.

The page presents educational tools that break things down into a set of causes, effects, and solutions. There are resources and lesson plans for digging into data on everything from carbon emissions to population density, analyzing environmental and...

In this reflective exercise, we reflect on where we are on a full spectrum of perspectives related to the lens of Community as Power, and we consider what other “spectra” of perspectives are related to this lens.

In this video from 2015, Teach For America corps member Wisdom Amouzou and his students explore these questions in their classroom.

This resource comprises concept maps that summarize the interdisciplinary climate change unit consisting of six sections. Each section has a concept map that showcases linked learning experiences with titles, numbers, symbols, and concise summaries. ...

This resource has 50+ lesson plans, worksheets and teaching activities. Topics include drones, understanding violence, military spending, mediation, youth campaigning, and more.