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A Closer Look at the Five Essential Components of Effective Reading Instruction
How can we teach all children to read accurately, rapidly, and with comprehension by the end of third grade? The National Reading Panel Report provides an answer to this question.
Education in Emergencies
Amazon Wildfires
In this lesson, students will discuss the human causes of Amazon rainforest destruction, explore the role of the Amazon in the lives of Indigenous people, and understand how the destruction of the Amazon can affect people’s lives. Using photos, stude...
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Brittany Packnett: Inhumane Acts Dehumanise Us All
Paulo Freire wrote that the purpose of education is for the oppressed to liberate themselves and their oppressor. In this video from 2017, a Teach For America alumna and powerful leader of the Black Lives Matter movement discusses her personal experi...
Education in Emergencies
Newsthink: Ukraine
A lesson exploring the war in Ukraine and how humanitarian crises affect people. Using a photograph, students will debate the statements "Civilians should never be targeted" and "All people deserve to be safe," and will explore their values and opini...
Climate Education
Plastic-free Campuses and Education
Break Free From Plastic has created manuals that can help map out policies towards plastic-free campuses. There are also plastic-free campaign resources that can aid teachers in designing lesson plans for any grade level and adapt modules to existing...
Climate Education
Choosing Earth's Climate Future
In this interactive lesson, students focus on the three interconnected choices global society faces as Earth’s climate continues to chang: suffer, adapt, and/or mitigate. The lesson guides students to analyze and predict current and future impacts to...
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Upper Primary Student Perceptions Survey
The Student Perception Survey (SPS) instrument consists of a battery of items in the form of observer-reported statements that the respondents affirm using a rating scale. These statements were formulated to map with the observable attributes of thei...
Education in Emergencies
Trinka and Sam: The Day the Earth Shook
A story that helps young children, their families, and teachers talk about feelings and worries they may have after experiencing an earthquake. This children's book describes some of Trinka's and Sam's reactions and how their parents help them to exp...