Humanities

Apple Education Racial Equity and Justice Challenge

Learning Challenge Series- Discussion guide for teachers, parents and community members to engage in a challenge based learning process.

Discussion Guide to engage in meaningful conversations about Race


iCivics

WHY?

iCivics resources for educators can help our youth build important civic knowledge and skills to help them understand how individuals and communities can work together to solve local, national, and global problems

WHO?

K-12 Educators and Leaders

WHEN and HOW?

Free, easy-to-use games and lesson plans that will help you prioritize civic learning and keep your students engaged onsite or in virtual remote learning anytime, anywhere

OUTCOMES

Students will develop power skills connected to civic knowledge and skills deepening their understanding of how individuals and communities can work together to solve local, national, and global problems.


TeachRock

WHY?

TeachRock integrates the Arts in the curriculum using history of popular music and culture to support teachers in their ability to engage students.

WHO?

K-12 Educators

WHEN and HOW?

Available anytime, anywhere teacher created lesson plans and curricular resources to integrate the arts with core content topics. Select TeachRock to search the database of available lessons by grade, subject, genre, activity and topic.

OUTCOMES

Increased student engagement by making deeper connections to the content through music and music history


Thinkalong

WHY?  

Thinkalong is a free, online educational program that curates trusted PBS, NPR and other public media content to teach critical thinking, media literacy and debate skills to teens, and to help them distinguish fact from opinion, and trusted content from misinformation.   

Young people run into all matter of questionable content on the internet – opinions parading as facts, stories with manipulated data or images, political spin, and a galaxy of information to sort through. Thinkalong can help learners make sense of the 21st century media environment. 

WHO? 

Classroom teachers for grades 6-12; librarians, informal educators, and youth workers; youth ages 12-18; parents, caregivers, and homeschool leaders. 

HOW and WHEN? 

Thinkalong consists of 45- to 60-minute learning modules that lead students through a process of investigating, contemplating, and debating a current event or topical issue.  Modules cover topics related to STEM, human and civil rights, government and civics, and education.  

Thinkalong uses a research-based media literacy framework, which is also posted on the website as a series of five questions with some clarifications. This framework can be used to address any piece of media that a learner presents or an educator discovers that may be misleading. 

OUTCOME

Learners have a framework for evaluating media they consume, and educators have a suite of tools for proactively teaching media literacy and reacting to questionable sources in learners’ lives. 

Tutorials