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Author: SJ Evans

Teach Math with Film for Math and Stats Month
April 1, 2024

Did you know you can teach math with film? For Mathematics and Statistics Month in April, we're highlighting some of our favorite math teaching tools. Our free film teaching guides feature classroom-ready lesson plans across the curriculum suitable for grade 4 all the way to grade 12 — including math lessons! Our most popular math lesson is part of our Hidden Figures Curriculum Guide, about The Math of Space Travel: Orbits and Conic Sections,...

7 Essential Teaching Tools for Genocide Education
April 1, 2024

April is Genocide Awareness Month in the US and Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month in Canada. We recommend the following film and teaching guide pairings to support you in teaching genocide education this month and all year round. Big Sonia is about Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski, who was a Jewish teenager living in Poland when the German army invaded in the 1930s. She’s a woman who speaks to students and prison...

Teach about Public Health with Film in April
March 31, 2024

April is full of opportunities to engage your students about public health: National Interprofessional Healthcare Month; National Minority Health Month; National Public Health Week April 1-7;  World Health Day April 7;  Black Maternal Health Week April 11-17; National Infant Immunization Week April 22-29;  World Immunization Week April 24-30.  The Invisible Shield is a powerful teaching tool for exploring the importance...

Teach about Islam with Film
March 28, 2024

Celebrate Islam with film all year round with these global education films that center Muslim stories plus our free teaching guides. Children of Heaven Children of Heaven follows an Iranian brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. The film showcases both modern and tradition Tehran and portrays a loving family trying to do their best. Our free Children of Heaven Curriculum Guide for grades 4-12 includes an...

In Memoriam: Alexei Navalny
February 18, 2024

Alexei Navalny was the subject of the 2022 Oscar-winning documentary NAVALNY, part of the Journeys in Film collection. We are deeply saddened to learn that Russian anti-corruption campaigner and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is dead. Navalny died as a political prisoner in a Siberian penal colony on February 16, 2024. Journeys in Film had the privilege of creating teaching resources for Oscar-winning documentary NAVALNY which chronicles...

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