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The project was created in 2010 with a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world. From its humble beginnings, the GRA has grown to make a truly global connection with milllions of students having participated.

What is it?

The premise is simple; we pick a book to read aloud to our students during a set 6-week period and during that time we try to make as many global connections as possible. Each teacher decides how much time they would like to dedicate and how involved they would like to be. Some people choose to connect with just one class, while others go for as many as possible. The scope and depth of the project is up to you. While there are commonly used such as Skype, Twitter, Padlet, or Flipgrid, you choose the tools that will make the most sense for you. Teachers get a community of other educators to do a global project with, hopefully inspiring them to continue these connections through the year.

When is it?

Once a year, starting in early October and running through mid-November. Due to the time commitment, this is only a once a year project, however, two fantastic spin-off projects run at other times; the New Zealand Read Aloud and the French version of GRA, Ecouter Lire le Monde.

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Teaching Young Children About Bias, Diversity, and Social Justice

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Celebrating identity in your classroom is a powerful way to help your students thrive into confident, courageous and empathic citizens. Let me know how you promote identity in your classroom.

You can find additional resources and books here, including lesson plans like this one from Teaching Tolerance.

What are your favourite children's books to help your students embrace their identity and develop positive self-esteem? Add the title into the comments below!

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As art teachers, we can make meaningful connections with students and create safe spaces for important conversations. Of course, we teach our students how to be great artists, but we also need to teach them how to be amazing humans.

Part of practicing how to be a good human is to learn about all types of people and their experiences. This list of 100 children's books is only a start. There are thousands of resources available for teaching an empathetic and inclusive classroom and inclusivity for all learners in the art room. Having open conversations, sharing stories, and creating diverse art projects will allow students to have more meaningful connections with art, their individual experiences, and their world.

Take the time to have a conversation with your students before and after reading a book together.

Begin the conversation by asking questions such as:

What qualities make you unique? What qualities make other people unique?

What can we learn from stories different than our own?

What will you do to spread love and acceptance?

What do your actions say about what kind of person you are?

What did you do when you saw someone being hurt?

100 Children's Books about Diversity and Inclusion

A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
A Boy Like You by Frank Murphy
A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
A Chair For My Mother by Vera B Williams
A Paintbrush for Paco by Tracey Kyle
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
All Equal: A Ballad of Lemon Grove by Christy Hale
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Be The Difference by Jayneen Sanders
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
Brick by Brick by Heidi Woodward Sheffield
Chocolate Me by Taye Diggs
by Miguel Tanco
Different: A Story About Loving Your Neighbor by Chris Singleton
Don't Touch My Hair by Sharee Miller
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by KellyStarling Lyons and Laura Freeman
Except When They Don't by Laura Gehl
Families, Families, Families by Suzanne Lang
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard
Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke
by Matthew A. Cherry
Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
I Am Human: A Book fo Empathy by Peter H. Reynolds
by Grace Byers
I Am Perfectly Designed by Karamo Brown
I Can Do Hard Things by Gabi Garcia
I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
I Will Be Fierce by Bea Birdsong
Intersection Allies by Chelsea Johnson
Island Born by Junot Díaz
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor
Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Kindness Rocks by Sonica Ellis
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Let The Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
Let's Celebrate Diwali by Anjali Joshi
Let's Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Like the Moon Loves the Sky by Hena Khan
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Loretta's Gift by Pat Zietlow
Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child by Tiffany Rose
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art by J.H. Shapiro
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood by F. Isabel Campoy
Melanin Poppin': Mommy, Why is My Skin Tone Different Than Yours? by CJ Johnson
Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Most People by Michael Leannah
My Hand's Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey by Jeanne Walker
My Nana and Me by Irene Smalls
My New Mom & Me by Renata Galindo
Nana Akua Goes to School by Tricia Elam Walker
No!: My First Book of Protest by Julie Merberg
Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin
'Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis
by Cedella Marley
Our Class Is A Family by Shannon Olsen
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry
Pies from Nowhere by Dee Romito
Pink Is For Boys by Robb Pearlman
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise
Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama by Hester Bass
Simone Visits the Museum by Dr. Kelsi Bracmort
Skin Like Mine by LaTashia M. Perry
by Miranda Paul
by Lupita Nyong'o
Thank You, Omu by Oge Mora
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague by Julia Finley Mosca
The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
The Piñata That the Farm Maiden Hung by Samantha R. Vamos
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
The World Needs More Purple People by Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart
Two Problems for Sophia by Jim Averbeck
Under My Hijab by Hena Khan
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
We're Different, We're the Same by Bobbi Kates
What Is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
When You Are Brave by Pat Zietlow Miller
Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Méndez
by Mahogany L. Browne
by Christian Robinson
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100 Children's Books About Diversity and Inclusion

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As art teachers, we can make meaningful connections with students and create safe spaces for important conversations. Of course, we teach our students how to be great artists, but we also need to teach them how to be amazing humans. Part of practicing how to be a good human is to learn about all types of people and their experiences.

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Please welcome my guest today, Lisa Stringfellow, Co-Chair of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee for NESCBWI, who asks "... what can we do on an individual level to educate ourselves about issues of equity and social justice?"

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More Than A Moment: Working From Within

The past few weeks have been a time of great pain in our country. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and too many other unarmed Black Americans by the police have forced our country to take a hard look at itself. Many are awakening to the fact that systemic racism exists and must be challenged in order to create a just and safe society for everyone.

Recent events also pose another opportunity for each of us to reflect as individuals and as a community on what actions we will take to move towards antiracism. In our work as creators of wonderful books for all children, we must engage honestly in this effort to examine ourselves, our creative work, and our organization.

You've probably noticed that booklists abound right now! Reading is an excellent way to begin the process. Below are two booklists, one for grownups and another for kids and teens, that can help answer questions and build background knowledge about the history of racism and white supremacy and how to disrupt it.

Antiracist Books for Grownups

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee

Antiracist Books for Kids and Teens

Reading is only a beginning step though . As wonderful as books are, it is what you do with the information that will make a difference. After reading, think about how want to show up in the movement. It might mean finding ways to disrupt systemic racism , adding or boosting BIPOC voices in your social media, refusing to participate in all-white panels or festivals, examining your nostalgic children's book favorites for harmful messages, inviting a group of friends to talk about antiracism , or studying the issues around the question of " who can write a story ."

In this age of social distancing, there have been some great virtual panels and discussions that also are excellent entry places. If you haven't yet watched them, please do!

Finally, a great recent book for kids that is mentioned above is This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on how to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell. This work is not easy, but it's vitally important. I'm encouraged by the rallying of many in the kidlit community to uplift the dignity of Black and brown people and the progress we've made in our region to become a more inclusive space.
Lisa Stringfellow was a voracious reader growing up and books always took her to places where her imagination thrived. She loves writing stories that spark that same wonder in others. She's also a teacher and has taught Language Arts and technology for over 25 years. Being around middle school kids all day, she's developed patience, creativity, flexibility, and an abundant sense of humor! Visit her teaching portfolio to learn more about her classroom. Her middle grade fantasy book, Dark Tide, will debut winter 2022. A Unit to Teach Kids About Microaggressions Can A Book Do Real Harm? Anti-Asian Racism in Joey Pigza series by Jack Gantos White Privilege Books for Kids Rethinking & Examining Dr. Seuss' Racism The Racist Side of Dr. Seuss You Didn't Know About Racism in Children's Books: Asian Slant Eyes Top Children's Books to Help You Address the Diversity of Human Race To examine any book more closely at Amazon, please click on image of book. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
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Antiracist Books for Kids, Teens, and Adults

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Please welcome my guest today, Lisa Stringfellow, Co-Chair of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee for NESCBWI, who asks "... what can we do on an individual level to educate ourselves about issues of equity and social justice?" ------- More Than A Moment: Working From Within The past few weeks have been a time of great pain in our country.

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If you're looking for anti-racist books for kids ages 8 - 12, read these middle grade choices to build empathy and teach kids about prejudice, social justice, and discrimination.

How can talk about race with our children? How can we educate children so they're anti-racist and advocates for social justice?

One way to do this is through books -which is why I'm recommending this list of books from which to choose.

What I like about books so much, and it's especially important as a white person, is that we get to read stories about other people's lives and experiences.

Sometimes the books will be mirrors into our own life while other times, the books will open doors and windows into the lives of others. Seeing what other people experience builds our empathy and our understanding of the world.

These excellent middle grade books for ages 8 to 12 deal with race, racism, prejudice, and social justice. They'll give readers insight, empathy, and spark deep thinking about human rights and inequality. And they can be a starting point for discussions and reflections.

Racism is taught. Let's be sure we're not teaching it inadvertently. Let's keep learning and growing in this area. And teach our kids well.

I want to be clear that I stand against racism. And I denounce the systemic inequalities and violence perpetuated on the black citizens of our country.

Social justice means we see and value every individual in our communities. It means the systems in our society are fair and equitable for all people.

I want to be part of the social justice movement in this country that will fix the wrongs happening every day.

One of the best middle grade books that I've read that helped me learn about racism and reflect on my own biases is This Book is Anti-Racist - it's eye-opening and I highly recommend it for YOU and for the children in your lives. My daughter and I are currently rereading it together.

If you're looking for young adult books for ages 13 and up about systemic racism, race, police brutality in the 20th century, and gender, I highly recommend reading starting with these amazing novels:

As far as terms go, here are a few you should know about as defined by Tiffany Jewell in her book, .

" Racism is the personal prejudice and bias and the systemic misuse and abuse of power by institutions."

" Prejudice is the personal side of racism. It is an attitude towards an individual or group of folx based on the social group they belong to. Prejudices can be based on stereotypes, misinformation, or fear, and -while they are not always negative-they most often are."

I am not an expert. I'm continuing to listen, learn, and grow. With that in mind, I'm sharing books with you that have been helpful, insightful, and powerful for me, a white woman, to read and share with kids.

ALSO READ: Picture Books to Teach Kids Ages 2 - 8 About Racism, Prejudice, Inclusion, and Kindness

Anti-Racist Book Lists for Kids Ages 8 - 12

Anti-Racist Nonfiction Book

This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurelia Durand
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If you're going to read one relevant, anti-racist book right now, start with this one. The writing is straightforward and understandable and the activities push readers to think and interact with the information about what it means to be against racism, including what racism and prejudice are, the history of racism, and responses to racism. It's an excellent book.

by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurelia Durand
Because it's so important that we all apply the anti-racist lessons to our own lives, this journal's guided questions and thinking opportunities will spark growth and reflection on a person's journey to becoming more anti-racist. The journal begins with prompts to think about self and identity. The journal begins with prompts to think about self and identity. It continues with information and guided questions about topics like power, privilege, history, books, creativity, and taking action. " Kindness won't end racism," writes Jewell on the last page. She quotes Opal Tometi who says, " What we need now more than ever is a human rights movement that challenges systemic racism in every single context. " Beautifully designed, this is a must-read, well-written book that will be a step in helping readers move toward an anti-racist life.

Anti-Racist Books About Black Lives

by Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illustrated by Sean Quills and Selina Alko
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Fictional classmates, one black and done white, write poems for a school project about identity, race, hair, police brutality, and diversity. Their project about difficult topics helps them learn about each other, becoming friends in the end.

by Torrey Maldonado
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Short and fast-paced, this is the story of a boy who learns to think for himself and define who he is himself, instead of being influenced by friends. Stephen notices he's living in a world that treats him differently than his white friends. His journey in this book ends with the conclusion that only he gets to decide what lane he's in as a young black man- not the world or his peers who are judging him by the color of his skin.

These twins with very different skin colors are treated differently. Donte, who is darker, is unfairly accused of something and suspended from school. He learns to fence to get revenge on the kid calling him "black brother" but as he trains, he discovers that he's smart, good at fencing, and courageous. If you think the world still isn't racist and colorist, read this compelling story and you'll see that we still have a long way to go.

This graphic novel is the well-deserved Newbery winner for 2020. Jordan's parents make him go to a private school across town where he's one of the only kids of color. Besides having the tricky business of navigating friendships, he now must deal with the two separate worlds of his neighborhood and his school along with racism and balancing academics with his artwork. This story feels truthful, relatable, and important.

by Janae Marks
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On her 12th birthday, Zoe, a girl who loves to bake, discovers a letter to her from her incarcerated biological father, Marcus. She decides to write him back, even daring to ask him about the murder he's in jail for - did he really do it? Zoe learns that he's innocent and determines to prove it. You won't be able to put down this winsome story with a heroine you can't help but adore; a story that illuminates social justice with themes of family, friendship, and love.

by Lisa Moore Ramée
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Middle school is hard enough with friend drama but 12-year-old Shayla is also dealing with not being black enough drama, personal and community race-related drama, and boy drama. She experiences micro-aggressions from teachers and when a jury finds a cop innocent in the shooting death of a black boy, Shayla decides to take a stand and support the Black Lives Matter movement calling for equality for black Americans. It's a powerful coming of age story about social justice.

by Jacqueline Woodson
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Harbor Me tackles very big issues including race, immigration, bullying, learning differences, friendship, and forgiveness. The story is about six diverse children with learning differences. They bond during a special group, kids-only time on Friday afternoons where they share their stories, many of which Haley records on a tape recorder.

It All Comes Down to This by Karen English
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Experience the 1960s in Los Angeles, a turbulent time of racism and burgeoning activism, from the perspective of Sophie, a sweet black girl who lives in an all-white neighborhood. Her parents' marriage is in trouble, her sister is about to leave for college, and her best (white) friend has abandoned her. Surprisingly, Sophie's strict, disapproving housekeeper becomes her ally, something Sophie needs during the challenges of life and growing up.

by Jacqueline Woodson
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Written in verse, Woodson shares her experience of growing up as an African American girl in the 1960s and 1970s. This Own Voices historical memoir is a Newbery Honor Book. Woodson shows how her love of stories and words helps her as she grows up during the Civil Rights Movement, dealing with racism, and finding her voice.

An important middle-grade book about self-worth, beauty, and colorism. Genesis hates her dark skin, believing that if only she were lighter-skinned, she'd have a better life. Despite this and troubles with her ne'er-do-well father, an insightful music teacher introduces Genesis to jazz music. The music helps Genesis find her voice, literally and metaphorically.

Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds
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Miles' spidey sense is whacking out when he's at school, especially in his history class. Add to that, he's worried he will turn out like his criminal uncle. So, Miles, who is Puerto-Rican and African American, stops being Spider Man. Until he discovers a chilling plot of men named Chamberlain who work under the control of The Warden. Now, he must use all his skills to save the world from a racist threat. You'll love the diversity, the two-parent family, and the complexity of Mile's character- this is a GREAT book.

It's hard for Makeda being a black adopted girl in a white family. But there are even more challenges for Makeda these days, starting with being the little sister to a newly distant teenager, moving to a new town away from her BFF, having parents who constantly fight, and watching her mom's mental health deteriorate and blaming herself. Don't miss this insightful, honest story - it makes you think deeply and will stay with you long after the last page.

Lovable but insecure Reggie McKnight is an unpopular yet thoughtful middle-school student who is hoping to get past his horrible "Pukey" nickname. He spends a lot of time with his church youth group which leads to an interest in his school's elections for president. This book for middle school students explores the themes of social justice, faith, friends, and family.

Isabella hates switching houses between her divorced dad and her mom. To make it worse, her parents, one who is white and one who is black, don't get along. Tensions between the families get worse when both parents decide to remarry on the same date. Add to this, she and her stepbrother are pulled over simply because he's black. The story captures Isabella's feelings of division as she searches for who she is in her own story.

Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
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Williams Jackson masterfully tells the history of the 1950s in Mississippi with compelling characters and an interesting plot. Rose Lee Carter is a girl who is raised by her grandma and father, works in the cotton fields, and is best friends with the preacher's son. She dreams of leaving Mississippi for the north like her mom and aunt, especially after the white men who killed Emmett Till are found not guilty in a real-life historical trial.

Young, Gifted and Black Meet 52 Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andres Pippins
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If you're like me, you'll immediately love the eye-catching, colorful design and illustrations. Then, you'll read about influential people like George Washington Carver, Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, and Serena Williams. There's about half a page to a full page of text for each biography making the information easily accessible for growing readers.
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Anti-Racist Books About Muslim Lives

Jameela is one of four girls in a Pakistani-American family and she's passionate about journalism but in her enthusiasm, she hurts a new friend when she writes something he isn't comfortable sharing with the world. While she digests these hard-earned lessons, she learns that her beloved little sister has lymphoma. Khan skillfully weaves a story of family, culture, community, and social justice.

It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
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Although it may sound like a heavy book, this is a funny, realistic story about growing up and living in a culture that is not your own. It's the late 1970s and Zomorod (Cindy) and her family are back in the U.S. from Iran -again. Nevertheless, she's desperate to fit in with the other kids despite facing both family pressures and anti-Iranian prejudice.

Stories About Native American Lives

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell
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Indian No More is an emotional, important antiracism story for kids about when the United States government arbitrarily made certain Native American tribes no longer tribes without reservations or legal rights. It also shows the historical landscape of prejudice and stereotypes towards people of color. I love the close-knit, loving family based on the author's own life, a family who values each other and their survival.

Books about Jewish Lives (and Anti-Semitism)

This story that explores what happens after Chernobyl explodes in 1986; it's about Russia, friendship, family, and prejudice. When Jewish Valentina and her enemy Oksana are forced to leave town together after the meltdown, we learn why Oksana acts the way she does, because of fear and abuse from her father. Once she gets away, she starts to think for herself. The girls end up in Leningrad with Valentina's grandmother and the months there are a healing time with unconditional love.

by Alan Gratz
Three distinct, alternating stories narrate children who are displaced from their countries, on the run, and in danger. First is a young Jewish boy who escapes from Nazi Germany on a ship to Cuba, only to be turned away from the Cuban port and sent back to Europe. Next is a Cuban girl in the 1990s who, with her family and neighbors, flees in a homemade raft to the United States at great peril. Finally, is a story about a Syrian boy fleeing his home country.

Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Stories

Front Desk by Kelly Yang
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Mia's parents take a new live-in job at a motel, working around the clock for very little pay. Mia helps out by working at the front desk. She befriends the weekly tenants from a variety of racial groups and uses her English skills to write letters advocating other people in tough spots. A memorable, antiracist, coming-of-age immigrant story, it's also about tolerance, determination, and diversity.

by Cynthia Kadohata
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This book is both sad and beautiful. Katie's sister, Lynn, tries to help Katie make sense of the racism and challenges that their Japanese-American family faces in Georgia in the 1950s. When Lynn gets very ill, Katie tries to emulate her sister's positive outlook.

Books about Latinx Lives

Each Tiny Spark doesn't just address racism but also learning differences and PTSD. Emilia is a Cuban-America girl whose ADHD makes focusing on school and school work a challenge. When her community proposes to redraw the school district's boundary lines, it exposes prejudice and ongoing injustice. While Emilia decides how to stand up for justice in her community, she's also trying to reconnect with her father who has PTSD.

Santiago's Road Home by Alexandra Diaz
Santiago is thrown out of his cruel tia's home in rural Mexico with nowhere to go. He unexpectedly meets a kind woman and her daughter who let him join with on their journey to el Norte. Santiago is a keen survivor and helps them find a trustworthy coyote but when their group is attacked, they must find the route without the coyote's help. The heat and lack of water almost kill them but he and his adopted little sister are rescued and taken to internment camps. This book is amazing - unflinchingly honest about the situation of illegal immigrants with a heroic main character whom you'll love.

After a happy, hardworking life in the U.S., Guerrero's parents are deported to Columbia, leaving Diane behind and forgotten just as she's about to start high school at a school of the arts. She survives by staying with different friends, moving when they don't have space for her, trying to be invisible and the perfect house guest, and excelling in school. An incredible journey of survival and strength and will profoundly affect readers.

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Teachers and parents have asked me to share picture books you can use with children to teach about prejudice, acceptance, inclusion, and tolerance.

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Help create a lasting impression using the best kid literature on bias, diversity and social justice from ADL's recommended collection of children's books.

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By National Geographic. It allows students to trade resources while adjusting to different world scenarios. I used it in the classroom so it was done physically. However, it can be done in two breakout rooms (for the two groups that trade) if all instructions are posted. There is also an instructional video. It got wild in the classroom as each group tried to win. But it was something that stuck with the students for a long time. Hope it goes well if you try it out.

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Reading like a historian- looking at primary sources to evaluate an EQ on a historic topic.

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History Lessons | Stanford History Education Group

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Creating break-out space for small group work using Google Meet

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** Use Firefox!
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4. Firefox has the capability of muting individual tabs, so you can pop into different groups without the chaos of noise from the other groups.

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Issues of identity and belonging are inseparable from the experience of immigration. Stories of immigrants, past and present, illuminate the human lives behind the ever-shifting global landscape we inhabit today.

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GDS in Schools Recently, I have been connecting with more and more educators around the use of Google Data Studio in schools. Google Data Studio (GDS) is a free resource from Google (of course). It allows users to create data visualizations through reports and...

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Compare income, life expectancy, and even toilets in a global photo database.

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Compare income, life expectancy, and even toilets in a global photo database. Great ideas on how to tell stories through data points and images.

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LibGuide from Western Academy of Beijing (w links to Wolframalpha, DataViz, Gapminder, Dollar Street)

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How globally-informed are we and our learners?

How can we make use of accessible databases, tools and provocations to generate lines of inquiry that enhance global engagement?

This guide has a range of tech and non-tech tools to evaluate global-mindedness, access Including real-world data and use to Wolfram|Alpha, Gapminder, Dollar Street, SDG Tracker, Making Thinking Visible, and more, these resources will help you enhance the international dimension of your units. inspire meaningful inquiry.

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WAB Learns: Factfulness, Inquiry & Global Ignorance: Home

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Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.

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A Guided Approach to Historical Inquiry in the K-12 Classroom

Assessing Student Learning

Watch teachers (informally) assess student learning in the classroom. Teachers and administrators discuss how historical thinking and literacy skills are evaluated through History Labs.

Assessing students' historical thinking is different than measuring their knowledge of historical content. While the two are not mutually exclusive, traditional assessments of history have focused on the recall of specific facts through multiple-choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, or matching questions, as well as short-answer responses and identifications. In contrast, the History Labs model seeks to assess the skills and complexity of the thinking and understanding behind student interpretations of evidence and responses to overarching questions.

Assessing historical thinking is different from measuring knowledge of historical content.

When assessing historical thinking, students demonstrate their understanding of content and process.

Assessments can take the form of structured writing assignments or performance tasks.

Further Reading

Assessing Historical Thinking and Understanding: Innovative Designs for New Standards, Bruce A. VanSledright, Routledge, 2013

"Beyond the Bubble: New History/Social Studies Assessments for the Common Core," by Joel Breakstone, Mark Smith and Sam Wineburg, 2013. Phi Delta Kappan, 94(5), 53-57

History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms, by S.G. Grant. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

"New Directions in Assessment: Using Library of Congress Sources to Assess Historical Understanding," by Sam Wineburg, Mark Smith and Joel Breakstone, 2012. Social Education, 76(6), 288-291

Beyond the Bubble: A New Generation of History Assesments

"In a history classroom, skills and process are linked together, just like they are in a math classroom or an English classroom. It is hard to separate those two things. The difference is you are assessing students' application, as opposed to what they remember."
-Teacher

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What is MapBiomas Alert

MapBiomas Alert is a system to validate and refine alerts on deforestation, degradation, and regeneration of native vegetation with high-resolution images. This current version is dedicated exclusively to deforestation in all Brazilian biomes and will expand to the other themes over the next two years.

Here you can find all the deforestation alerts in Brazil updated monthly

Selecting an alert visualize in high resolution the image before and after deforestation

Access the full report of each property that crosses with the selected alert

Understand the MapBiomas Alert

The system captures alerts from primary sources of generation

Alerts go through a validation and refinement system

Validated alerts are published in a public platform

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Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems

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My colleague creates the most amazing flying tours along river valleys and over glaciers, and uses it with the students to measure distances. The street view function is fabulous - compare different streets within a city in terms of economic income by using visual clues (lawns, parking, garages, housing density, etc.)

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Population growth is one of the most important topics we cover at Our World in Data.

For most of human history, the global population wasa tiny fraction of what it is today. Over the last few centuries, the human population has gone through an extraordinary change. In 1800, there were one billion people. Today there are more than 8 billion of us.

But after a period of very fast population growth, demographers expect the world population to peak by the end of this century.

On this page, you will find all of our data, charts, and writing on changes in population growth. This includes how populations are distributed worldwide, how this has changed, and what demographers expect for the future.

Key insights on Population Growth

Population cartograms show us where the world's people are

Geographical maps show us where the world's landmasses are; not where people are. That means they don't always give us an accurate picture of how global living standards are changing.

One way to understand the distribution of people worldwide is to redraw the world map - not based on the area but according to population.

This is shown here as a population cartogram: a geographical presentation of the world where the size of countries is not drawn according to the distribution of land but by the distribution of people. It's shown for the year 2018.

As the population size rather than the territory is shown in this map, you can see some significant differences when you compare it to the standard geographical map we're most familiar with.

Small countries with a high population density increase in size in this cartogram relative to the world maps we are used to - look at Bangladesh, Taiwan, or the Netherlands. Large countries with a small population shrink in size - look for Canada, Mongolia, Australia, or Russia.

You can find more details on this cartogram in our article about it:

What you should know about this data

This map is based on the United Nation's 2017 World Population Prospects report. Our interactive charts show population data from the most recent UN revision. This means there may be minor differences between the figures shown on the map and the latest estimates in our other charts.

The world population has increased rapidly over the last few centuries

The speed of global population growth over the last few centuries has been staggering. For most of human history, the world population was well under one million.1

As recently as 12,000 years ago, there were only 4 million people worldwide.

The chart shows the rapid increase in the global population since 1700.

The one-billion mark wasn't broken until the early 1800s. It was only a century ago that there were 2 billion people.

Since then, the global population has quadrupled to eight billion.

Around 108 billion people have ever lived on our planet. This means that today's population size makes up 6.5% of the total number of people ever born.2

This increase has been the result of advances in living conditions and health that reduced death rates - especially in children - and increases in life expectancy.

What you should know about this data

This data comes from a combination of sources, all detailed in our sources article for our long-term population dataset.

Population growth is no longer exponential - it peaked decades ago

There's a popular misconception that the global population is growing exponentially. But it's not.

While the global population is still increasing in absolute numbers, population growth peaked decades ago.

In the chart, we see the global population growth rate per year. This is based on historical UN estimates and its medium projection to 2100.

Global population growth peaked in the 1960s at over 2% per year. Since then, rates have more than halved, falling to less than 1%.

The UN expects rates to continue to fall until the end of the century. In fact, towards the end of the century, it projects negative growth, meaning the global population will shrink instead of grow.

Global population growth, in absolute terms - which is the number of births minus the number of deaths - has also peaked. You can see this in our interactive chart:

The world has passed "peak child"

Hans Rosling famously coined the term " peak child " for the moment in global demographic history when the number of children stopped increasing.

According to the UN data, the world has passed "peak child", which is defined as the number of children under the age of five.

The chart shows the UN's historical estimates and projections of the number of children under five.

It estimates that the number of children in the world peaked in 2017. For the coming decades, demographers expect a decades-long plateau before the number will decline more rapidly in the second half of the century.

What you should know about this data

These projections are sensitive to the assumptions made about future fertility rates worldwide. Find out more from the UN World Population Division.

Other sources and scenarios in the UN's projections suggest that the peak was reached slightly earlier or later. However, most indicate that the world is close to "peak child" and the number of children will not increase in the coming decades.

The 'ups and downs' in this chart reflect generational effects and 'baby booms' when there are large cohorts of women of reproductive age, and high fertility rates. The timing of these transitions varies across the world.

The UN expects the global population to peak by the end of the century

When will population growth come to an end?

The UN's historical estimates and latest projections for the global population are shown in the chart.

The UN projects that the global population will peak before the end of the century - in 2086, at just over 10.4 billion people.

What you should know about this data

These projections are sensitive to the assumptions made about future fertility and mortality rates worldwide. Find out more from the UN World Population Division.

Other sources and scenarios in the UN's projections can produce a slightly earlier or later peak. Most demographers, however, expect that by the end of the century, the global population will have peaked or slowed so much that population growth will be small.

Explore data on Population Growth

Research & Writing

More Key articles on Population Growth

Hannah Ritchie and Edouard Mathieu

Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Lucas Rodés-Guirao

Hannah Ritchie and Edouard Mathieu

Demographic change

Definitions and sources

Other articles related to population growth

Interactive charts on Population Growth

Endnotes

See, for example, Kremer (1993) - Population growth and technological change: one million BC to 1990. In the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 108, No. 3, 681-716.

As per 2011 estimates from Carl Haub (2011), " How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? " Population Reference Bureau.

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Our articles and data visualizations rely on work from many different people and organizations. When citing this topic page, please also cite the underlying data sources. This topic page can be cited as:

Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Edouard Mathieu, Marcel Gerber, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Joe Hasell and Max Roser (2023) - "Population Growth". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth' [Online Resource]

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Teaching People's History

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The Zinn Education Project is my compass in a sea of corporate textbooks, packaged common core curriculum and standardized testing. My entire curriculum is based on lessons that can be found on the Zinn Education Project.

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From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the stakes are high. It is critical that students learn about the fight for voting rights, past and present.

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A to Z reading program with leveled reading course on all subjects

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Yesterday Nearpod announced that you can now transform your Google Slides presentations into interactive and dynamic lessons that engage every student.

*Enter to win a gold or platinum Nearpod license at the end of this post!*

What is Nearpod?

Nearpod is a classroom tool that makes learning engaging and interactive. The teacher launches a lesson in which the students join by typing in a special code. The entire presentation can be controlled by the teacher which updates in real time on the students' devices. There is a whole bank of Nearpod lessons that have already been created or the teacher can choose to create his/her own by importing files (jpgs, PPTs, PDFs), designing slides and adding interactive features like virtual field trips, PHET simulations, polls, quizzes, collaborative boards, open ended questions and more! In the blog post Helpful Ideas for 1:1 Chromebook Classrooms I listed Nearpod as a web application that is great to use on Chromebooks as well as laptops/computers and mobile devices. They even have a free version you can use in a classroom of 40 students or less:

If I had my own classroom that was 1:1 or had access to a class set of devices, I would ask the PTA or write a Donor's Choose grant to fund a Platinum license for my class. This is one of my FAVORITE tools to model for teachers because they immediately fall in love when they see how easy it is to use. The tool sells itself! The real-time data and feedback that is generated during a lesson is priceless. Nearpod keeps getting better too! In the last year they have added Digital Citizenship & Literacy lessons, integrated with Newsela, teamed up with Flocabulary, added learning labs, introduced game based learning with Time to Climb and so much more.

Nearpod Add-On for Google Slides™

Like I mentioned above, a new feature that was released yesterday is the Nearpod add-on for Google Slides™. You can now embed your favorite Nearpod activities directly within your Google Slides presentations. You even have the ability to collaborate with others. If you already have a Nearpod account set up, you do not need to worry if you registered with a gmail address. It will still work with Google Slides!

Check it out in the Nearpod video below:

How to Install the Add-On

There are several ways you can install the add-on.

Click HERE to access the add-on>Install>Continue>Choose your account>Allow.

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Open a Google Slides™ presentation and go to Add-ons>Get Add-ons>Type Nearpod in the search box>Click +Free>Choose your Google account>Click Allow.

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To learn more about this new feature, click HERE. To learn more about how Nearpod works, click HERE.

Click HERE to sign up for a Nearpod account.

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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History was founded in 1994 by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, visionaries and lifelong supporters of American history education. The Institute is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to K–12 history education while also serving the general public. Its mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources.

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Spring 2024 Registration Is Open

K-12 educators can earn their graduate degree in this affordable, online, accredited program. It's easy to apply and become an enrolled student.

Upcoming Spring Semester Dates

Applications End: Thursday, January 25, 2024

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Begin the application process now to join us this spring!

Study with world-renowned scholars, connect with other teachers from across the United States, and reinvigorate your enthusiasm for teaching history! Whatever your budget and interests, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has a professional development opportunity for you next summer.

Online Options: 10 Teacher Seminars

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Historical Holiday Resources

Explore the history of Thanksgiving, from its origins through its evolution into a recognized federal holiday with essays, videos, lesson plans, and more.

Warfare in Early America

Join Professor Timothy Shannon of Gettysburg College to explore the evolution of warfare in North America from the earliest contact between Native Americans and Europeans through the early nineteenth century.

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Competition and Lottery Now Open

The Hamilton Education Program Online is a free program that helps students in grades 6-12 see the relevance of the founding era by using primary sources to create a performance piece following the model used by Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the musical Hamilton.

Students in the program will have the chance to submit their performance piece and be selected to see a performance of Hamilton in New York City.

Congratulations, Bruce Henderson

Bruce Henderson has been awarded the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize for Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II. An event celebrating the winner and the shortlisted authors will take place on Monday, December 4. Attend in person or via the livestream.

Issue No. 68: "The Role of Spain in the American Revolution" (Fall 2023)

Explore the often-neglected story of Spain's crucial role in the American Revolutionary War with six essays by historians and additional Gilder Lehrman resources.

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MA in American History

Our master's degree program gives K-12 educators an affordable way to earn a graduate degree while working full time.

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Explore American history from your own home, in your own time, and at your own pace! Educators can obtain professional development credit.

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These self-paced courses in American history are taught by the nation's top historians and are completely free for high school students.

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How can teachers assess history well? More importantly, how can they plan for assessment that will help children to move on in their learning?
Learning objectives
All the lessons on this website identify specific historical learning objectives, as well as social or cross-curricular objectives. History is a language-based subject, so it is the perfect vehicle for language development. Most of the Nuffield lessons include specific literacy objectives and outcomes, and many of them have been taught in the literacy hour (e.g. Boudicca; the Battle of Trafalgar). However, we always explicitly address history objectives too.
Formative assessment
Formative assessment is a crucial element in children's learning journey. It is intrinsic to Assessment for Learning (AfL) - the improving of learning through assessment.

To use the principles of AfL in your history teaching:

Set history learning goals for the children. Discuss these goals with the children so they understand what they are aiming for. Take the learning goals from the knowledge, skills and understanding laid out in the National Curriculum history guidance.

Encourage all children to believe that they can learn. Assessment has a huge influence on children's motivation and self-esteem. Motivate them with open-ended, interesting historical questions and scaffold their learning to help them succeed.

Here are lessons and exemplars are based on good questions and scaffolding; e.g. Grace Darling KS1 Castles Visit to Petworth House

Give frequent feedback to children about how they are doing and how they can improve.

Use Questioning both to assess and to advance children's learning.

Actively involve all children in their own learning through, for instance, discussion and debate with peers and teacher; assessing, reviewing and reflecting on their own performance. See for instance Sumerian mystery.

Time spent on these activities is far more valuable than using it to teach more facts.

Use on-going informal assessment (based on observation; discussion; questioning; written work) to adjust your teaching and progress the children's learning.

Many of the lessons on this site include evaluations by teachers of their lessons, and reflections on how they will adjust their future teaching.

Notice that speaking and listening are central to formative assessment.

The AfL initiative is central to the Government's Primary Strategy, and is based on the extensive research of Paul Black, Dylan Wiliam and their colleagues at King's College, London.
Summative assessment and reporting progress
Summative assessment in history should only be carried out at the end of a year or key stage. You do not need to assess using the National Curriculum level descriptions for history. Indeed, there is no statutory obligation to level children's work in history at all.

What teachers must do is report progress in history to parents each year. What is the best way to do this? The level descriptions follow a model of progression in history based on the idea of the spiral curriculum, where skills and concepts are revisited continually, at ever more sophisticated levels.

The Nuffield Primary History team's view is that, while there is much good in this assessment model, it lacks an overall focus. For us, the focus would be the development by children of a sense of period - a deep knowledge of people within the era in which they lived - grounded in evidence, enquiry and imagination.
Uses of level descriptions
The level descriptions for history do provide a useful guide and checklist when assessing progress over a year or key stage. Some schools make a photocopy of the level descriptions for each child and, over the key stage, teachers highlight the statements that best fit each child's attainment. At the end of the key stage, they place each child at the level that has the most highlighted descriptors - in other words, the level that is a 'best fit' for that child.

The level descriptions were emphatically not designed for formative, day-to-day assessment. Nor should each level be dismembered into separate bits.

The official position was stated a decade ago by Bennett and Steele:

"Level descriptions were neither designed as teaching and learning objectives nor as setting out what has to be assessed on a day-to-day basis.

"Level descriptions have been designed to provide a 'best fit' description. It is not intended that they should be broken down into their constituent parts. In history, the various components of the level description are closely related, and the distinction between the levels lies in the whole rather than the parts. In making a judgement, therefore, teachers will be concerned to identify a range of levels and then to consider which one best fits as a description of a pupil's performance (Bennett and Steele, 1995, p.7)
For example
At the end of the local study focused on Magdalen Road, we carried out a detailed summative analysis of the children's historical learning. Click here to read our discussion and assessment of the children's learning. We have not levelled it for two reasons. Teachers are not required to level work in history. An eight-hour unit does not in itself provide enough evidence for levelling. See Summative assessment: Magdalen Road

We also have an exemplar of the summative assessment of children questioning artefacts. See assessment and questioning and Assessment exemplar: question artefacts (pots)

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UNICEF and UNESCO lesson plans based on individual goals

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Every school day we choose an important or interesting Times article to feature in our Lesson of the Day and pair it with a warm-up, critical-thinking questions and a going-further activity. The activities and questions are intended to help students understand the article, contextualize it within current and historical world events, and connect the content to their own lives.

As you might expect, many of our Lessons of the Day respond to major news events. While the spring was certainly dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, the year had many other big news stories as well: the impeachment of President Trump, youth-led climate change marches, the Democratic primary race, wildfires in the Australian outback, and, most recently, protests for racial justice following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.

But this collection of lesson plans doesn't include those breaking news stories; instead, it highlights the 100-plus articles we featured during the 2019-20 school year that are in some way evergreen. For example, one lesson plan linked below is about the rush to stop "murder hornets" from spreading in the United States. Another is about how political divides shape the nation's history textbooks. These articles draw from Arts, Sports, Science and other sections across The New York Times.

On Sept. 8 we'll begin publishing new daily lesson plans for the 2020-21 school year, but until then and beyond we hope you find articles in this collection that feel interesting and relevant to your curriculum and your students' lives.

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To help reach our goal of actively supporting and enhancing the work of the United Nations' efforts within K-12 classrooms, our TeachSDGs organization contributes to the 2030 Agenda in the following...

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This has only been launched in the past two weeks. Usually IGCSE and IB/DP History focused but there are resources for Key Stage 3 if you follow the UK curriculum which would also be used in general middle school social studies/humanities classes.

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It's no secret that I love Google tools, but Google is not the only option for your classroom. There are hundreds of fantastic collaborative learning tools!

Collaboration is a critical twenty-first-century skill for our students. Finding ways to facilitate and support collaboration in the classroom is not always easy.

Keep in mind that digital tools are not inherently collaborative, it is how you use them to facilitate collaboration in your classroom.

All of the tools below have the capability but may support collaboration in different ways.

I've included an overview video for each of the fifteen tools listed below.

Many of these tools also tap into other C's like creativity, critical thinking, and communication! (Looking for other ideas to support the 4 C's, check out the 4 C's Learning Menu.)

Another important thing to note is that many of these tools work together, like InsertLearning and Flip, as well as offer integration with Google tools.

Did your favorites make the list? If not, leave a comment and share your top collaboration!

This post contains 20 collaborative tools for your classroom that are NOT Google.

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in no particular order...

Pear Deck is an active learning and formative assessment tool that makes your presentations completely interactive! Pear Deck is fully loaded with templates for each stage of the assessment process, vocabulary games, Google tool integration, and helps teachers engage students and create collaborative conversations.

Pear Deck also offers ISTE Aligned, digital citizenship curriculum in partnership with Google's, " Be Internet Awesome," program. And Pear Deck has also introduced critical thinking slides!

Pear Deck is a freemium tool, meaning that some features are completely free, but premium features require a paid account.
Related: 27 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom Learn more about Pear Deck.
Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion tool that allows teachers to create "grids," of discussion topics. Students share their responses through recorded videos. Flip is a great way to encourage student voice and engage students. You can also connect and collaborate globally through their #GridPals program.

Flip is jam-packed with a ton of other features like video downloads, stickers & drawings, custom assessment rubrics, video feedback, MixTapes, Topic invites, private share links, Vibes, and more! There is also an amazing community to support you!

Flipgrid is owned by Microsoft and is completely free!
Learn more about Flipgrid. Related: Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool Related: 10 Awesome Ways to Use Flipgrid in the Classroom
Padlet is a digital tool that allows you to create collaborative "walls." I like to think of it like a digital bulletin board with digital sticky notes, but way better. Students can post just about anything-images, videos, documents, and text-from anywhere, and from any device (pcs, tablets, phones).

I have used Padlet for many years and it is a great way to get students (and teachers) sharing, collaborating, and creating. Padlet is no longer a free tool, but it is still used and recommended by many teachers.
Learn more about Padlet.
Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool. Teachers can use it to create interactive lessons that contain quizzes, polls, videos, images, drawing-boards, web content and more, as well as use their "Nearpod Collaborate!" tool.

Nearpod is free for a class size up to 30.
Learn more about Nearpod.
5. Microsoft Teams

Get Classes, Meetings, Assignments, Files And Collaboration All In One Place With Teams.

Engage students with virtual face-to-face connections and activities, or set up a remote lunch to keep classrooms connected and having fun and it's free for students and teachers with a valid school email address.
Learn more about Microsoft Teams.
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio tool. Teachers can empower students to create, reflect, share, and collaborate. Students "show what they know" using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links.

Seesaw is a freemium tool, meaning that some features are completely free, but premium features require a paid account.
Learn more about Seesaw.
Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform for your classroom. Teachers can create Kahoots, or collaboratively create with students.

Kahoot is free for teachers.
Learn more about Kahoot.
Book Creator is the simple way to make ebooks using the Chrome App or iOS App. Book Creator has real-time collaboration and is ideal for making all kinds of books, portfolios, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more.

Book Creator is free for up to 40 books.
Learn more about Book Creator.
CoSpaces Edu is an application that allows students and teachers to easily build their own 3D creations, animate them with code and explore them in Virtual or Augmented Reality.

CoSpaces is free for up to 30 seats.
Learn more about CoSpaces.
Buncee allows students and teachers to create engaging multimedia projects and presentations.

Buncee is a freemium tool, meaning that some features are completely free, but premium features require a paid account.
Learn more about Buncee.
OneNote is a Microsoft Office product that is like a digital version of a physical notebook. This means you can capture digital notes and keep them organized, as well as collaborate and share. It also means you can add images, diagrams, audio, video, and more.

Access to OneNote requires an Office 365 subscription.
Learn more about OneNote.
WeVideo is an online and collaborative video editing tool. Students can easily edit and collaborate on videos on desktops, iOS, and Android. And, it's Chromebook compatible!

WeVideo is a freemium tool, meaning that some features are completely free, but premium features require a paid account.
Learn more about WeVideo.
Classcraft is a game-based approach to teaching and behavior management. It's designed to encourage participation, good behavior, and 21st-century skills like collaboration.
Learn more about Classcraft.
InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn any website into an interactive lesson. You can highlight text, add sticky notes, insert questions, videos, or even a discussion all inside the webpage!

Learn more by reading 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning.

This tool was also part of the 18 Challenges for Teachers in 2018 FREE ebook.

Teachers can create up to 5 lessons with a FREE account.
Learn more about InsertLearning.
Soundtrap Edu is an online music studio where students can create together by recording and using loops.
Learn more about Soundtrap Edu.
Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio - it's truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in.
*Related: Engaging Lessons for Next-Gen Connected Creators
Canva for Education is 100% free for K-12 (primary and secondary) teachers and their students, powering creation and collaboration in every classroom.

You and your students can create and personalize your own designs from scratch, or choose from thousands of high-quality, educational templates. From presentations to posters, and infographics, to worksheets, project-based learning, and lesson plans, the possibilities are endless.
*Related: 4+ Things You Didn't Know Canva Could Do!
Transform your old worksheets into interactive quizzes and assignments rich with multimedia. With BookWidgets, all teachers from all courses can create interactive exercises and auto-graded assignments with over 30 different question types. Teachers can easily integrate BookWidgets inside their trusted learning environment (Google Classroom, Teams, Canvas, Schoology, and more). The integration allows you to follow student progress in realtime when student are working on a BookWidgets assignment. This way, you can quickly guide your students in the right direction when they need help.
*Related: Google Classroom + BookWidgets = Superpowered Digital Classroom
Save, organize and share content from across the web with Wakelet. Save articles, videos, images, Tweets and more, organize them into stunning collections.

Your notes, research, tasks, and more - all in one place. Free for students and teachers, with discounts for teams and schools.

Did your favorite collaborative tool make the list? If not, leave a comment and share!

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20 Collaborative Tools for Your Classroom That Are Not Google

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It's no secret that I love Google tools, but Google is not the only option for your classroom. There are hundreds of fantastic collaborative learning tools! Here are 20 Collaborative Tools That Are NOT Google.

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Christo Brand was Nelson Mandela's jailer and the two became lifelong friends. He has written a book "Mandela: My Prisoner my Friend". Christo does Zoom talks as he can no longer travel the globe to speak. It is a fascinating story and well worth the experience- info@christobrand.co.za

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Students create a 'rainbow trail' or 'chalk the walk' artwork in and around their homes, neighborhoods or schools to thank others like essential workers; make kindness cards; or other craft creations

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Web-based app for making ebooks in the classroom. Teachers can get started for free and invite students to join their library. Add text, images, audio and video and easily publish your books online.

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Lessons on Reading Like a Historian
Primary Sources w/ Lesson Plans
The Historical Investigations Portal is our online curriculum, offering interactive lesson plans that allow students to analyze and synthesize multiple primary source documents, images, and objects to draw evidence-based conclusions about compelling historical questions. Reading Like a Historian Lessons include Lucnroom Fight I and II, Evaluating Sources, Snapshot Autobiography, Make Your Case

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A few days ago, we featured 4 good web tools to help teachers and educators make the best of their collaborative team work and today we are re-featuring a collection of some of the best bookmarking tools out there. These are applications teachers can use to curate and organize digital content. Some of these tools support collaborative features allowing you to collectively bookmark and curate content of shared interest. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback. Links are under the visual.

1- Participate
'Clip items from the web, upload your own work, or find and re-clip content from others to customize and maximize your learning.'

Diigo is 'save and tag your online resources for easy access anytime, anywhere. It allows you to annotate web pages and PDF's directly as you browse online. You can organize your links, references and personal input to create a structured research base through Outliner.'

3- Instapaper
'Save all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing. With one click, Instapaper lets you save, read, and manage the things you find on the Internet.'
4- Flipboard
This is an excellent news aggregator that you can use to organize news stories around any topic or interest. It has a handy feature that lets you create custo magazines where 'you add all your favorite stories or make a Smart Magazine that's customized to include the best content from any source, person, publication, or even hashtag.'

'Scoop.it helps professionals and businesses discover, curate and publish great content to get visibility online. Some of its features include: Select, edit and publish posts in the same engaging visual format as on the Web site.; discover awesome content on your topics by reviewing your suggestion lists and the topics from other curators, share your posts to all your social accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn...'

6- Pinterest
'With Pinterest, you can discover, search and save great content from across the web. Use it for inspiration or practical ideas for everyday life.'

Trello allows you to organize and manage your projects in effective ways. It lets you create boards to organize anything you are working on, customize workflows for different projects, add checklists of to-dos on cards,

8- Evernote Web Clipper
'This is add-on allows you to instantly clip web pages and save them to your Evernote account. You can use tags to organize your notes. Other interesting features provided by this extension include: highlighting text in any web page, using callouts to draw attention, sharing clipped content through email or via a unique URL.'

9- Save to Google Drive
'his extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save links to documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action.'

'Pocket is your place to quickly save, discover, and recommend the stories that interest you. The next time you find an article, video or link you want to read or watch later, just save it to Pocket. It'll sync across your phone, tablet, and computer so you can come back to it whenever and wherever you'd like, even when you're offline.'

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Some of The Best Digital Curation Tools for Teachers

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Tools for discussing equity, diversity, and racism

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Understanding how school discipline policies can contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline is essential for educators and families. Harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline can push young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. But educators, parents and caregivers can help to change this harmful system by advocating for and implementing practices that prioritize mental health and well-being.

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Learning for Justice | Education Resources

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A few days ago, we featured 4 good web tools to help teachers and educators make the best of their collaborative team work and today we are re-featuring a collection of some of the best bookmarking tools out there. These are applications teachers can use to curate and organize digital content. Some of these tools support collaborative features allowing you to collectively bookmark and curate content of shared interest. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback. Links are under the visual.

1- Participate
'Clip items from the web, upload your own work, or find and re-clip content from others to customize and maximize your learning.'

Diigo is 'save and tag your online resources for easy access anytime, anywhere. It allows you to annotate web pages and PDF's directly as you browse online. You can organize your links, references and personal input to create a structured research base through Outliner.'

3- Instapaper
'Save all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing. With one click, Instapaper lets you save, read, and manage the things you find on the Internet.'
4- Flipboard
This is an excellent news aggregator that you can use to organize news stories around any topic or interest. It has a handy feature that lets you create custo magazines where 'you add all your favorite stories or make a Smart Magazine that's customized to include the best content from any source, person, publication, or even hashtag.'

'Scoop.it helps professionals and businesses discover, curate and publish great content to get visibility online. Some of its features include: Select, edit and publish posts in the same engaging visual format as on the Web site.; discover awesome content on your topics by reviewing your suggestion lists and the topics from other curators, share your posts to all your social accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn...'

6- Pinterest
'With Pinterest, you can discover, search and save great content from across the web. Use it for inspiration or practical ideas for everyday life.'

Trello allows you to organize and manage your projects in effective ways. It lets you create boards to organize anything you are working on, customize workflows for different projects, add checklists of to-dos on cards,

8- Evernote Web Clipper
'This is add-on allows you to instantly clip web pages and save them to your Evernote account. You can use tags to organize your notes. Other interesting features provided by this extension include: highlighting text in any web page, using callouts to draw attention, sharing clipped content through email or via a unique URL.'

9- Save to Google Drive
'his extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save links to documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action.'

'Pocket is your place to quickly save, discover, and recommend the stories that interest you. The next time you find an article, video or link you want to read or watch later, just save it to Pocket. It'll sync across your phone, tablet, and computer so you can come back to it whenever and wherever you'd like, even when you're offline.'

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Some of The Best Digital Curation Tools for Teachers

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A few days ago, we featured 4 good web tools to help teachers and educators make the best of their collaborative team work and today we are re-featuring a collection of some of the best bookmarking tools out there. These are applications teachers can use to curate and organize digital content.