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Get Students Excited about Service Learning with Film
March 31, 2025

Looking for service learning lessons and community service projects for your classroom? Film is a powerful tool to excite students about service learning: it provides an intimate and engaging look at the work of contemporary activists, many of whom are young people themselves, who are making a difference in the world. Our films show students that positive change is possible and the have the power to make an impact on the world around them in both...

Music in Our Schools Month: Teach with Film
March 9, 2025

March is Music in Our Schools Month. Celebrate with these beautiful films plus our free lesson plans to boost student engagement across the curriculum including Music Education, Language Arts, Social Studies, History, Environmental Science and more! For grades 5 and...

Teach with Oscar Movies
March 2, 2025

Teach with Oscar movies to boost student engagement across the curriculum! We are proud to offer free, classroom-ready lesson plans and discussion guides to make it easy to teach with Oscar winners and Oscar-nominated films. Bridge of Spies Bridge of Spies received six nominations. They were for Best Supporting Actor (Mark Rylance), Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Production Design and Best Sound Mixing....

Teach about Islam with Film
March 1, 2025

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...

Teach Math with Film
March 1, 2025

Boost student engagement with film-based math lessons! Our free film teaching guides feature classroom-ready lesson plans across the curriculum suitable for grade 4 all the way to grade 12 — including mathematics! Hidden Figures Our most popular math lesson is part of our Hidden Figures Curriculum Guide, about The Math of Space Travel: Orbits and Conic Sections, for grades 9 to 12. You can download the full Hidden Figures guide from our...

What to Teach in March
March 1, 2025

Let's make March easy! Get classroom-ready resources to teach with film across the curriculum for Women's History Month, Music in Our Schools Month, Pi Day (yes, you can teach math with film!), Ramadan, World Poetry Day and more! March Special Event Highlights Women's History Month: Free Resources for Women’s History Month + our new Women's History Resource Collection Music in Our Schools Month: Chevalier, Defiant Requiem, Landfill...

Join us at SXSW EDU 2025
February 27, 2025

We’re presenting at SXSWEDU on March 3! Join our executive director Jen Fischer and panelists from ROCO Films, Common Sense Media and Sierra College as they discuss The Power of Film in Classrooms and Teacher Training. Educators can receive continuing professional learning credit hours by attending this session. We hope you can join us! Panel: The Power of Film in Classrooms and Teacher Training Date: Monday, March 3 Time: 1 pm - 2...

Journeys in Film is a Top SML Resource of 2024
February 12, 2025

We’re thrilled that our article on Creating a Calm Classroom is part of the Best of Share My Lesson 2024! Check out these free tools and resources to help students manage big feelings: Creating a Calm Classroom at Share My Lesson. More of the Best at Share My Lesson Journeys in Film has been honored to place in the top ten most popular resources of the year at Share My Lesson for three years in a row. Our article about Creating...

Women's History Month: Teach With Film
February 2, 2025

Free Resources for Women's History Month These free resources to support you through Women's History Month that all take advantage of the power of film. They include core-based lesson plans, fully prepared and ready for immediate classroom use, as they highlight the stories of women who are changemakers, thought leaders, scholars, scientists and much more. They also work for Gender Equity Month (March), International Women's Day (March 8), and all...