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Teacher
Resources
TeachableMoment.Org
For a wide range of FREE classroom activities (grades K - 12) visit
our website www.teachablemoment.org.
They're updated frequently!
Online
Store
Below are
teacher resources available for sale. Visit
our Online Store to order.
4Rs
LEARNING KIT(grades K-5)
Literacy and social/emotional learning are not mutually exclusive!
The 4Rs (Reading, Writing, Respect & Resolution), ESR Metro's innovative
literature-based conflict resolution curriculum for grades K-5, uses high-quality
children's literature to help students develop essential social skills
and create a peaceable classroom climate. Each 4Rs Learning Kit includes
everything you need to implement the curriculum: the teaching guide for
their grade; the seven children's books, a Hugg-A-Planet, and puppets
(for grades K-2) or Kooshballs (grades 3-5). 4Rs Learning Kits are available
for $200 per kit, plus $20 for shipping and handling.
Click here to order.
ARAB
PEOPLES: PAST & PRESENT TEACHING KIT (grades 3-6)
Teacher-friendly tools to promote intercultural understanding.
This new ESR Metro teaching guide, with accompanying children's books
and videos, will increase your students' knowledge of Arabs and Islam--and
teach them strategies for countering teasing and harassment. Arab Peoples
is available for $200 per kit, plus $20 for shipping and handling. Click
here to order.
NUCLEAR
CONTROVERSY SOURCEBOOK (H.S.)
Everything you need to make a critical issue come alive for students.
The Sourcebook includes a comprehensive overview of the controversy over
nuclear weapons; notes for teaching about controversial subjects in the
classroom; resource documents, activities and lessons; and Document Based
Questions (DBQ) useful in preparing for Regents Exams. Presented in a
loose-leaf binder - easy to use and update. The Nuclear Controversy Sourcebook
is available for $15, plus shipping and handling. Click
here to order.
NUCLEAR
CONTROVERSY: 5 LESSONS
(H.S.)
Should the U.S. work to eliminate nuclear weapons?
Interactive and engaging lessons designed to fit into the social studies
curriculum and align with New York teaching guidelines. Can be used alone
or to supplement the Sourcebook described above. Spiral bound; $10 plus
shipping & handling. Click
here to order.
MAKING
THE WORLD FEEL BETTER: The P.S. 230 Mural Project (video)
A school community unites in the wake of 9/11.
An inspiring 20-minute video about how students, teachers, and parents
at Brooklyn's PS 230 addressed their grief and overcame divisions by creating
a mural together. Available for $12 (including postage and handling)
from ESR Metro. Click
here to order.
A
SCHOOL OF OUR OWN: Parents, Power & Community at the East Harlem
Block Schools (book)
"A powerful story of the generation of hope and of the power
of a community to educate its young." --Educator/author Herb
Kohl
ESR Metro Executive Director Tom Roderick's moving book tells how in 1965
a group of Puerto Rican parents created better schools for their children,
led an effective campaign to expand and improve early childhood services
in NYC--and empowered themselves in the process. Click
here to order.
CHANCE
FOR PEACE
Songs of Reflection and Hope for a New World
(CD)
A diverse group of musicians assembled to perform (and in some cases,
create) songs about peace and war to benefit the work of ESR Metro. A
project of Roland Marconi of Media Dream Productions. Click
here to order.
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