Resources for Educators
Local Election Toolkit
presented by: KQED
Letters to the Next President 2.0 asked students to share their views on an issue that mattered to them during the 2016 election. But students don’t need a presidential election to make their voices...
- Resource Type:
- Tools/Toolkit
PBS Election Central: After the Election
presented by: PBS Education: Election Central
After a winner is announced in a Presidential election, the U.S. begins a peaceful transition of power from the President to the President-elect in order to sustain our democracy. How can being a good...
- Resource Type:
- Activity
Resources to Gear Up for the Inauguration and First 100 Days
presented by: KQED
January 20 will mark the 58th inauguration in our nation’s history. President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign and subsequent election was inspired in part by widespread frustration with business as ...
- Resource Type:
- Activity, Informational
Connected Composition: Bringing the Elections into the Curriculum (blog)
presented by: National Writing Project
In this blog post from 2012, Chris Sloan from the Wasatch Range Writing Project shares a number of resources for educators looking to address politic...
- Resource Type:
- Curriculum
Lamplit: Why do I need to understand fair use?
presented by: Lamp
Fair use is a notoriously gray area of law, and it’s often hard to create a set of easy rules that will apply to all cases. However, this guide outl...
- Resource Type:
- Informational
The Writing Classroom as a Laboratory for Democracy: An Interview with Don Rothman
presented by: National Writing Project
In this article from 2005, David Brown, co-editor of Higher Education Exchange, interviews Don Rothman, former director of the Central California Wr...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Do Now: What Does Being Politically Active Mean to You? #DoNowPolitics
presented by: Youth Radio
KQED’s Do Now for January 14, 2016 asked youth to think and respond to the prompt “What Does Being Politically Active Mean to You?” Hosted in pa...
- Resource Type:
- Activity