In this lesson, students will learn about muons and why scientists are carefully tracking how they spin inside a magnetic field. Are physicists on the verge of discovering new subatomic particles?
Join us this Earth Day as three journalists share how The Times helps readers understand the fascinating, complex and vitally important field of climate science.
What does love look like in a time of hate? In this lesson, students will analyze an essay and photographs that respond to that question, then respond to a similar prompt themselves.
Businesses, schools and politicians are considering “vaccine passports” as a path to reopening the country. Do you think sharing vaccine status should be mandatory to go to school, take a vacation or enter a movie theater?
We invite middle and high schoolers to create an original podcast of five minutes or less that informs or entertains. Contest dates: April 8 to May 18.
A flexible, seven-unit program based on the real-world writing found in newspapers, from editorials and reviews to personal narratives and informational essays.
In this unit, students explore a kind of composing that may be new to them but which draws on skills they’ve practiced all year. The sequence culminates in a creative audio storytelling challenge they can do from home or the classroom.
In this lesson, students will learn how the muralists of El Paso tell the story of a vibrant city on the United States-Mexico border. Then they will design a mural to represent their own community.
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In this lesson, students will learn how schools across the country are addressing the trial of the former police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd.
In this lesson, students will learn about sustainable farming practices created by Black farmers, as well as new measures to address decades of agricultural racism. Then, we invite teenagers to submit their questions about climate change for our live student panel on April 22.
Join us this Earth Day as three journalists share how The Times helps readers understand the fascinating, complex and vitally important field of climate science.
From September to May, we’re hosting seven free webinars to help teachers use our prompts, mentor texts and contests to teach everything from argument and narrative writing to informational essays and podcast scripts.
In this his lesson, students will learn about the stark inequalities in vaccine access across the globe, then consider what the United States should do to close the gap.
In this lesson, students will learn how young adults and older people have suffered most from loneliness during the pandemic and how interaction between them might be the best medicine for each.
In this lesson, students will learn about why some people are reluctant to get vaccinated, and they will evaluate strategies for persuading vaccine skeptics.
