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Teaching with Primary Sources Through Film
November 15, 2021

Teaching with primary sources and educating students about primary and secondary sources is an important part of classroom learning. Similarly, teaching with film is a proven way to engage and excite students. However, did you know that films can be powerful tools for engagement around primary source learning for students? We’re highlighting our free CORE-based curriculum guides that incorporate primary source learning activities. We’re here to ...

Celebrating Women in History Through Film
February 3, 2022

Every year on March 8th, the world celebrates International Women's Day. This holiday highlights gender inequities. It also draws attention to the importance of a world free of bias, discrimination and stereotypes. Additionally, March is Women's History Month. Both provide opportunities for educators to highlight and celebrate women in history in their classrooms. We provide free resources to achieve this goal through the use of film. We also encou...

Summer of Soul - Now an Oscar Winner
March 29, 2022

At Journeys in Film, we are committed to educating the next generation to be globally competent and socially active by harnessing the power of film. As such, we create free curriculum guides and discussion guides for films. Our newest resource is a guide featuring 6 Lesson Plans for Summer of Soul - now an Oscar winner. To its many laurels, the film now adds the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. You can download this free curriculum guide...

Big Sonia - Now Available on PBS Through 2025
April 14, 2022

Big Sonia is now available on PBS for the next three years! This makes the film even more accessible for your classroom use. Our free curriculum guide for the film features 5 lessons. These include an introduction to the Holocaust, an oral history assignment and more. This incredible film is 96 years in the making. It's a film you don't want your students to miss. Certainly, Sonia’s enormous personality masks the horrors she endured. At 15 she w...

Journeys in Film After-School Film Club Launches in Florida
August 25, 2022

Journeys in Film’s amplification of the power of storytelling through film and media content expands this Fall as our first After-School Film Club launches in Florida this September. Programming for the film club centers around youth action and social justice. As such, we curated a diverse slate of short films. These films highlight the work of young people all over the world. Furthermore, we supported the student-led group with guiding questions f...

Summer of Soul Lesson Named #1 Partner Resource of Share My Lesson 2022
December 20, 2022

Share My Lesson, a project of the American Federation of Teachers, is a free award-winning, community based site featuring bringing together educators, parents, caregivers, educational resource creators, paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel. It is a vibrant community and rich site of resources including articles, lesson plans, webinars and much more. Several Journeys in Film lessons and webinars are available on the Share My Less...

Differentiated Learning: Journeys in Film Resources & Basic Tips
December 20, 2022

Different Learning: Journeys in Film Resources Differentiated learning—adapting classroom techniques to maximize learning for students at different levels and with different learning strengths and weaknesses—has always been important for educators. At Journeys in Film, our teachers write lessons that are accessible to a wide range of students. Further, our writers understand that individual teachers, who know the strengths and weaknesses of th...