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The Privacy Paradox
This lesson teaches students to understand the impact of online actions on their personal privacy.
September 26, 2017
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Issues of Poverty
“Issues of Poverty” is comprised of four lessons with two overarching goals. First, the lessons aim to help students understand that poverty is systemic, rooted in economics, politics and discrimination. Second, the lessons provide evidence to show that poverty, far from being random, disproportionately affects Americans who have traditionally experienced oppression—African Americans, Latinos, immigrants and children.
February 9, 2012
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You Are the Product
In this lesson, students will explore the concept of “going viral” and how advertisers use social media to promote their products and identify potential customers.
October 3, 2017
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The Social Justice Standards
The Social Justice Standards allow educators to use backward design when planning lessons and provide a framework for discussing social justice topics at every stage of K-12 instruction. Get to know the anchor standards, grade-level outcomes and the four domains of anti-bias teaching and learning—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—with the resources in this edition of The Moment.
- Lead Your Own Training: The Social Justice Standards
- Social Justice Standards
- Teaching MLK With the Social Justice Standards
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Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.
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Stand Up and Be Counted
An important date awaits in April, and it’s coming sooner than April 15.The Census Bureau has designated April 1 as "National Census Day," the date for mailing census forms to bureau offices. Households that don’t get their forms sent off by then will get a visit from a census taker.
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Sandy Hook Started a Conversation—Now What?
As teachers, our open discussion of tragedies like Sandy Hook is something we can do, today, that will contribute to clear thinking and ethical pedagogy.
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Summer Planning Essentials
Thinking ahead to next school year? Incorporate these suggestions into your planning.
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Understanding How Digital Information Comes to You
In this lesson, students will learn how different search engines work.
October 2, 2017
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National Voter Registration Day: September 25
September 25 is National Voter Registration Day! We celebrate all educators who help students identify as voters and who encourage eligible voters in their communities to get to the polls. This edition of The Moment pulls together some of our favorite Voting and Voices resources—including Democracy Class, a set of brand-new, classroom-ready lesson plans from TT and Rock the Vote.
- Democracy Class Offers New Lesson Plans About Voting
- Register Voters
- Five Myths About Voting