This lesson is designed to get students to think critically about hot-button issues such as the "fiscal cliff," "sequestration," and the ongoing debate about the US budget. Two student readings examine the general debate about the budget and the human impact of budget cuts and sequestration. Questions for discussion follow each reading.

Former San Diego Chargers running back, Donald Brown knew that his dream of being in the NFL would be his by persevering and making the decision to live naturally high. After completing the Donald Brown discussion questions, encourage students to share their natural highs by having them hashtag #LiveNaturallyHigh on their social media accounts.

How to use our resources:
1) Watch a dynamic video featuring a powerful, personal story
2) Discuss the video in a group using provided discussion guides
3) Engage in deeper learning through fun, interactive activities that reinforce the concepts from the video.

The young members of the indie pop band Echosmith all have one goal with the music they write and perform: to spread positive messages to their fans. After completing the Echosmith worksheet, encourage students to share their natural highs by having them hashtag #LiveNaturallyHigh on their social media accounts.

How to use our resources:
1) Watch a dynamic video featuring a powerful, personal story
2) Discuss the video in a group using provided discussion guides
3) Engage in deeper learning through fun, interactive activities that reinforce the concepts from the video.

In this activity from Commonwealth Theatre Center in Louisville, Kentucky, students can write and perform a monologue addressed to a selected emotion describing their experiences with the emotion and why they would like to spend more or less time together. Students will better understand their relationship with their emotions and communicate complex ideas.

World-renowned artist, motivational speaker, TED presenter, and bestselling author Erik Wahl believes there is a creative genius deep inside every one of us. After completing the Erik Wahl worksheet, encourage students to share their natural highs by having them hashtag #LiveNaturallyHigh on their social media accounts.

How to use our resources:
1) Watch a dynamic video featuring a powerful, personal story
2) Discuss the video in a group using provided discussion guides
3) Engage in deeper learning through fun, interactive activities that reinforce the concepts from the video.

Students will look at images and determine how they have been altered. Discuss why someone might alter photographs that are online.

This Digital Citizenship unit was created by the Snohomish School District. This strand in the unit focuses on: Evaluating Resources and

Students will look at two websites for services for dogs to try to determine which one is the fake site. Discuss why someone might create fake websites and how to spot a fake website.

Students will look at images and determine how they have been altered. Discuss why someone might alter photographs that are online.

There are many resources on the internet and students need to learn how to determine if the information is false or accurate.

Students will be able to identify the Google is not a resource and determine that Wikipedia is not a credible source for research.  

Students will look at images and determine how they have been altered. Discuss why someone might alter photographs that are online.

This lesson helps students understand the concepts of strengths, struggles and what it means to help.

Students make predictions about "Bridge to Terabithia" and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.

This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students make connections between their own feelings about caring for something and similar feelings that are expressed in works of art

This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students study works of art that depict two people who care for each other and study how the artists use line, color, shape, and space to convey the sense of a caring relationship. Students then use these principles to create their own drawings of two caring people

This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students look at works of art that convey the idea of working together and think about how artists use space -- foreground, middle ground, and background -- to communicate this concept. In groups they use their knowledge of space to create a three-dimensional tableau that communicates the concept of working together

This lesson is part of a sequential unit. In this lesson we celebrate by creating a hat that expresses the ideas of caring relationships and working together that were explored in this unit.

Fact or Opinion asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and analytical writing skills.

Students work in groups to role-play or tell stories about real life situations related to fairness, community, diversity or social justice themes. Students then perform their skits or stories for others as part of a class-wide “fairness fair.”