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Spoken Word: Youth Leading Change
This Spoken Word lesson plan was developed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of the Share and Spread Connected Learning Collection, organized by The Sprout Fund with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation.
Local Climate Change Impacts and Solutions
This lesson plan was developed by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of the Share and Spread Connected Learning Collection, organized by The Sprout Fund with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation.
Water Design Challenge
What does it mean to be an active, engaged young global citizen? The Water Design Challenge asks students to explore real world water issues both locally and globally. The program has students collaborate as part of a “water task force” to tackle those issues in physical and virtual spaces…
Video Game Design
This five-session lesson plan uses a video game design tool called Bloxels to introduce middle-school students to video game design.
Avonworth Galleries Project
The Pittsburgh Galleries Project is an example of a program in which students design, create, curate, and manage exhibition spaces on a school campus.
Green City Remix
This lesson engages learners in improving their historical thinking skills, building critical understanding of change, and creatively visualizing their learning with hands-on making.
Assembling Identity: Multimedia Collage Self-Portraits
In this two-session activity, middle school students will create a mixed media, identity-based self-portrait involving collage and sewn circuit components.
Pathway to College
This lesson plan provides a year-by-year roadmap for students to understand the important milestones to reach at each stage of high school and the post-secondary planning process in order to attend college.
My Block is Beautiful
During these workshops participants learn about the science and practical application of drones and use them to take aerial photos of blocks in their community. They then transform these digital images into works of art.
Environmental Problem Solvers
This lesson plan invites students to look closely at how small steps at home can make a global environmental impact.
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.