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Films that Celebrate The Power of Bicycles
May 1, 2024

May is a great time to celebrate bicycles in the classroom! May is National Bike Month, plus May 5 is National Ride a Bike Day and  May 8 is National Walk Bike and Roll to School Day! Our global education film collection includes two films that students love about the power of bicycles: The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind and Wadjda. The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind In The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, 13-year-old son William is forced to leave school...

Teach Mental Health Awareness with Film
April 30, 2024

Films can be powerful tools for alleviating stress and also for teaching about stress awareness, resilience, emotional regulation and coping strategies! We recommend the following lessons in our film guides to help you teach about stress and mental wellness with film for grades 3-12. Mental Health Awareness Month  in May and Children's Mental Health Awareness Week May 5 – 12 are great times to teach with these films and they're also great all year...

What to Teach in May
April 26, 2024

Here are teaching ideas paired with free teaching resources for teachers and homeschoolers about what to teach with film in May! May Teaching Highlights Mental Health Awareness Month May 5 - 12 is also Children's Mental Health Awareness Week. We recommend these powerful lesson plans and experiential activities to support mental health and wellness all month long: Teach about Mental Health Awareness with Film for grades 4-12. Holocaust...

5 Powerful Documentaries with Spanish-Language Film Guides
April 22, 2024

Teach with film in Spanish! We're delighted to offer a range of film teaching guides in Spanish for compelling social impact films. Our Curriculum Guides / Guías Curriculares, Guías del Currículo y Plans de Estudio feature classroom-ready lesson plans across the curriculum, with handouts and activities all in Spanish. Our Discussion Guides / Guías de Discusión are designed to deepen the conversation around a film's subject and themes...

Five Films About Amazing Women
April 11, 2024

These five award-winning documentary and feature films highlight the stories of exceptional women and their impressive accomplishments in STEM, religion, the arts, and human rights advocacy. Our free discussion guides and curriculum guides for these films can deepen engagement with the themes of gender, equality and human rights for all students. These positive representations of women can also expand students’ ideas about what leadership and...

4 Films To Inspire A Love of Learning
April 9, 2024

In honor of School Library Month in April and School Library Week April 7 to 13) we're highlighting some of our favorite films that inspire a love of learning while they celebrate the critical importance of mentors and educators. These four films from our Global Education Series also encourage cross-cultural understanding, empathy, and knowledge of the people and environments around the world. They are great choices to fire up students and teachers...

Bring Refugee Stories To Your Classroom
April 8, 2024

The global plight of migrants, refugees and displaced persons is a growing and urgent contemporary issue that teachers increasingly seek to address in their classrooms. Our teaching materials are designed to support students to practice compassion and humility and make meaningful attempts to understand why refugees flee their homes, what their lives are like, and how everyday people can get involved to help. We warmly recommend the following film...

Celebrate Stress Awareness Month with Film
April 5, 2024

April is Stress Awareness Month. Films can be powerful tools for alleviating stress and also for teaching about stress awareness, resilience, emotional regulation and coping strategies! We recommend the following lessons in our film guides to help you teach about stress and mental wellness with film. For Grades 4-12 The Cup, a feature film about a young Tibetan Buddhist monk living as a refugee in India who develops a passion for the World Cup,...

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...

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