Grades 6 to 8

Results for Grades 6 to 8

Art Expression Through Music

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15 May 2013 Gale Bournazian-Ybarra This activity uses music and ...
Toolkit for “When Bad Things Happen”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “When Bad Things Happen,” and provides professional-development resources to support ...
Toolkit for “Uncommon Ground”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Uncommon Ground,” and provides a classroom activity to celebrate diversity and build ...
Toolkit for “Story Corner”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the story corner “Michael,” and provides classroom resources for making student journals, as well ...
Toolkit for “Set In Stone”

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14 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Set in Stone,” and provides classroom activity ideas to bring monuments to life and ...
Toolkit for “Serving Up Justice at School”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Serving Up Justice at School,” and provides a classroom activity that engages students ...
Toolkit for “Out at Last”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Out at Last,” and provides professional-development resources to support LGBT educators, ...
Toolkit for “How Will You Mix It Up in 2013?”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “How Will You Mix It Up in 2013?” and provides classroom and professional-development ...
Toolkit for “Just Science”

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14 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Just Science,” and provides a classroom resource to help students probe deeper to ...
Toolkit for “I Am Asian American”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “I Am Asian American,” and provides professional-development resources to help teachers ...
Toolkit for “Gender Spectrum”

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7 May 2013 Gender-fluid young people navigate a variety of gender-specific spaces throughout their day at school. From seating charts based on gender to dress codes and roles in ...
Toolkit for “Fostering Allies”

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7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the Summer 2013 article “Fostering Allies,” and provides professional-development support to ...
In Our Own Words: A Story Book with a Purpose

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10 April 2013 This is the fourth lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” which is ...
Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers

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26 March 2013 The purpose of these lessons is to help students think about how to resolve difficult ethical decisions related to ...
Change Agents in Our Own Lives

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26 March 2013 This is the third lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” which is ...
Modern-Day Heroes: People Who Are Making a Difference

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22 March 2013 This is the second lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers .” ...
Where We Stand

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20 March 2013 This is the first lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” ...
Rediscovering Forgotten Women Writers

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25 January 2013 Honoring the far-reaching contribution of women authors. In her book Silences , first ...
The Aleut Evacuation: An Overlooked Injustice

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24 January 2013 The history of a proud indigenous people during WWII. Poised in the midst of Beringia, about ...
Toolkit for “Buttoned Down”

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21 January 2013 Students, parents and administrators have hotly debated the issue of school uniforms for decades. Proponents of school uniforms believe that they save money, ...
Toolkit for "Seamless Education"

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21 January 2013 Click for full PDF (learn more) (Pre K to K, Grades 1 to 2, Grades 3 to 5, Grades 6 to 8, Grades 9 to 12) ...
Toolkit for “Move to the Music”

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21 January 2013 Educators have long used music to inspire, engage and teach their students. Whether by tapping into popular culture or reaching back through history, songs and ...
Toolkit for “The Value of Community”

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21 January 2013 In his 2003 ASCD Educational Leadership article, Creating a School Community , author and educator Eric Schaps states, ”a growing body of research confirms the ...
Toolkit for “School-to-Prison Pipeline”

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21 January 2013 The school-to-prison pipeline represents an intersection of complex issues, including race, class, education and the American justice system. Learn more ...
Toolkit for “School-to-Prison Pipeline Infographic”

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11 January 2013 In the majority of schools, the response to discipline issues is driven by administrators, counselors and, in a growing trend, by school resource officers and law ...
Toolkit for “School-to-Prison Pipeline Infographic”

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11 January 2013 In the majority of schools, the response to discipline issues is driven by administrators, counselors and, in a growing trend, by school resource officers and ...
“Religion in the Locker Room” Toolkit

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21 January 2013 When the authors of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution wrote, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free ...
"Sound Effects" Toolkit

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21 January 2013 (Teacher Note: Bring in several magazine photographs of unknown people who represent a variety of races, ages, religious backgrounds, jobs, etc. Number ...
"No School Like Freedom School" Toolkit

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14 January 2013 Modeled after the 1964 Mississippi Freedom schools, which were designed to change a community by giving residents the tools to develop leaders and exercise political ...
Toolkit for “Perspectives”

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11 January 2013 Perspectives for a Diverse America is a K-12 literacy-based anti-bias curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and ...
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