K-2 Activism Exploratory

Katherine Scholes begins this informative piece by describing the multi-facted nature of the word "peace" and what it can mean to different people at different times. Then she provides concrete ways that each of us can be a peacemaker.

Two friends who attend different schools in the same community learn that one of their schools has no instruments for their music program, while the other has multiple different kinds. They use their friendship and musical abilities to confront this inequity and try to bring about change.

In addition to holding a key place in American folk and gospel music, this song has significance as an anthem of the civil rights movement.

This film documents English language learners as they write and tell personal stories from their past.

In this excerpt, Garang tells his story of how he became a lost boy when war destroyed his village. Walking with thousands of other orphaned boys, Garang travels thousands of dangerous miles from southern Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

This excerpt explains that families are defined by love, caring and sharing, not the number or gender of its members.

The prince and his pet rhinocerous have a special friendship. He showers her with kind words until one day he lets the thought of gold get in between his and the rhino's special bond.

Although carefully planned at twilight so all animals can attend, things go terribly wrong during this walkabout. The group creates such a terrible hullabaloo that Namarrkun, the lightning man, is forced to show his strength.

This picture book explains the Muslim holiday Ramadan by answering the 5 Ws: who, what, where, when and why.

This photograph depicts two children playing. One child has multiple disabilities and the other child does not.