Week 6
Climate Change Through Poetry, Beanstack and TutorATL
Teaching Climate Change During a Pandemic -Lessons
Coal, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Mountaintop Removal - Students mine chocolate chips from cookies in a simulation then discuss the benefits, drawbacks and complications in the process as they analyze modern mining techniques and the movement to change policy.
Five Years After the Levees Broke: Bearing Witness Through Poetry - A teacher’s reflection on the power of poetry to spark critical discussion and reflection on current issues of inequality surrounding disaster response in the United States
The Coronavirus Explained
You can customize your own lesson at TED-Ed or just use the one I've provided to facilitate a deeper discussion with students.
Keep Kids Learning Grant
Check out the titles below.
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
Outliers
Poem in Your Pocket Day
- Select a poem and share it on social media using the hashtag #pocketpoem.
- Simultaneously participate in the Shelter in Poems initiative, and select a poem that brings you solace during this time of distance and solitude. Share what it means to you and use the hashtags #pocketpoem and #ShelterInPoems.
- Print a poem from the Poem in Your Pocket Day PDF and draw an image from the poem in the white space, or use the instructions on pages 59-60 of the PDF to make an origami swan.
- Record a video of yourself reading a poem, then share it on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or another social media platform you use.
There is a public flipgrid available for students to post their poems. The link is below. I'll choose someone at random and send them a copy of Eve Ewing's "Electric Arches" as a thank you to those who participate.
Shanna Miles
Email: sxmiles@apsk12.org
Website: southatlantalibrary.blogspot.com
Phone: 5005
Twitter: @sahsmediacenter