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Consider Ways to Solve it

Big problems have more than one potential solution. Considering many possible solutions is a future ready skill. In this video, children learn that bees are disappearing. They conduct research to learn more about the situation and sketch different solutions.

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What Makes The Importance of Being Earnest a Classic?

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed in February 1895, just weeks before Wilde's career was destroyed by scandal. With themes of deception and double meaning, it lampoons Victorian ideas of class and morality.

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What Makes The War of the Worlds a Classic?

In H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, a brutal alien army descends on Earth, intent on colonising the planet for its own ends. First published as a novel in 1898, the story tapped into fears that advances in technology would herald a new age of warfare.

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Gladys Bentley: Breaking All the Rules

At a time when homosexuality was illegal in the United States, LGBTQ+ artist and pioneer Gladys Bentley broke all the rules to become one of the wealthiest Black performers of her time.

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The Golden Age of Illustration

The Golden Age of Illustration flourished at the turn of the 20th Century, when artistic flair collided with new technology.

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Moved by Math | Draw a Code

Ancient people drew symbols on cave walls to tell stories. Today, visual communication is everywhere. In this activity, you will create unique stories made with pictures, your own visual code.

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Moved by Math | Follow My Code

Math and art are at the core of technology and digital communication. In this activity, you will create sculpted characters and draw visual codes that direct movements around a dance floor.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Make Stories Shine

Looking at illustrations before reading the words in picture books helps us see that there are many different ways of telling stories. In this activity, you will look at the pictures in a book, then retell the story as a puppet play.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Transportation Game

When we make the games we play, we connect ideas about people and places. In this activity, you will design a Transportation Game to learn how and why things move from place to place.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Steps to Success

Developing 21st century learning skills helps young people prepare for the careers of tomorrow. This activity involves imagining and sketching work in the future and making personal connections to careers in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Together, discuss what future workplaces and jobs might look like and how skills and interests could lead to steam careers.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | In My World Game

Skills and mindsets that students can cultivate today, like curiosity, imagination, open-mindedness, persistence and growth mindset, prepare them for STEAM careers. Work together to design a game that explores many paths to STEAM careers.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Story Surprises

Stories spark listeners' curiosity, and help us to understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction. In this activity, you will Use your creative ideas to illustrate familiar stories, then adjust those stories by drawing different characters, settings, or plot actions to show how a story can be changed.

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The Golden Age of Sci-Fi Literature

Coinciding with the Machine Age, the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Literature saw American authors combine factual science with fantastical fiction to take readers into the farthest reaches of the imagination.

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, is rightly recognised as one of the most touching and solemn war memorials in the world. But when plans for the memorial were first unveiled, many Vietnam veterans and US political leaders were outraged.

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9/11: Art From Ashes

September 11, 2001 is a day etched into the memories of millions. Art around the world is being used to explore and understand.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | How Can Details Energize Stories?

When you look and listen carefully, details inform what you see and hear. In this activity, you will write a story using adjectives and adverbs, then create an illustration that shows what happened next.

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STEAM | Why Move and Sketch?

Physical activity activates brains! In this video, children will learn about STEAM by engaging in creative movement and sketching experiences that show energy and how natural and manmade objects move.

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STEAM | Flip and Sketch Ideas

STEAM Teams include scientists, tech experts, engineers, artists and mathematicians who solve real-world problems, knowing there is always more than one right answer. In this video, children modify everyday objects that could be used in new ways to solve real-life problems.

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STEAM | Ask Deeper Questions

Asking questions helps turn curiosity into inquiry! In this activity, children will learn more about different types/ levels of questions by creating an Inquiry Ladder and challenging themselves to think about bigger, essential questions.

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STEAM | STEAM Teams Wear Many Hats

Collaboration helps us see problems from new perspectives. In this activity, children will learn about the Boston Molasses Flood and ask STEAM questions to solve the mystery.

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STEAM | Teams Pitch Solutions

Children form STEAM teams that work on fascinating real-world problems, design solutions, and then pitch their ideas to others. They build skills in articulating points of view, embracing others’ ideas, and finding new ways to collaborate.

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How Do We Create Character?

The team at Unity discusses character formation and objectives.

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The Role of the Producer

Aurore Dimompoulos gives an insiders view on all the different skills needed to be a Producer in the fast-paced environment of a major global technology company.

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The Role of the Associate Producer

Kat Woolley talks about how she became an Associate Producer for a major global tech firm and what her role involves. Coming from a background of interactive media, she highlights how being able to multi-task is a must!

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Angie Thomas transformed her challenging experiences into groundbreaking novels, inspiring young African Americans to raise their voices.

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CREATE Relationships | Celebrate Strengths

To create relationships with others, first we need to understand ourselves, the skills, interests, and experiences that make us special. In this activity, you will create a hand-drawn selfie, using words and symbols that celebrate your personal strengths.

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CREATE Relationships | Trust Each Other

When we create new things, we learn by being open to constructive feedback from other people. But to learn from comments others say about our work, we must trust each other.

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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson's journey, from her upbringing during the Civil Rights movement to becoming a celebrated children's author, showcases her dedication to creating stories that resonate with diverse experiences, especially for young Black readers.

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Social and Emotional Learning | The Best of Me

When you draw upon your strengths, you see the many ways that your skills and personality shine. In this activity, you will create illustrations, that show how you interact with others.

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This or That? Make Choices

Children often take classes offered through community organizations or clubs. Sometimes they must make a choice between two desirable options, such as music and dance. Those decisions are based on how they envision their strengths or their dreams for their future. In this video, children make choices for the classes they’ll take at the Kids’ Club. Based on which class they take, an artifact is created that they share with friends when they demonstrate what they learned. After that presentation, they have an epiphany that the music and dance classes are truly connected and their artifacts can be used to enrich each other’s classes too!

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My Turn, Your Turn

Taking turns is part of childhood play. Being able to postpone immediate gratification and honor others’ desire to have a turn is essential to establishing social norms and being fair. This video introduces a concrete way for children to play with and learn from one another, practice taking turns, understand what self-regulation and group social regulation mean, as they participate in responsible decision making – all part of the CASEL framework.

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Start with a Breath

Deep, slow breathing can calm children down. This video helps children focus on their breath to relax, stay calm, and get ready for what’s coming next. As children become aware of their breath, they begin to learn self-regulation techniques. Making art that shows their full bodies helps to deepen self-awareness.

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Change Creates New Possibilities

Change is an important part of life – it’s how we grow as people. Let’s create art that involves intentional and unintentional change and explore how it affects our plans.

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Communicate Through Gesture

Common gestures and formal sign language can be used to communicate kindness and support. In this activity, children draw some American Sign Language and common gestures that make people feel welcome. Their art reminds them and others of the ways gestures help people communicate.

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The Arts Communicate

In every community, individuals and families pass down their cultural heritage through fables and folktales, the stories that are timeless. In this video, children discover that the arts provide every culture ways to creatively communicate universal values and their community’s specific traditions.

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Same Plan, Different Results

A recipe or set of directions is a plan that someone follows to create something. Recipes are excellent for practicing reading and writing skills, following directions, and noticing patterns, sequences, and results that come from imaginative variations! This video shows how differences can occur, and why they might happen.

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My Busy Pace And Quiet Place

A child’s self-awareness of what helps them relax and regroup can be increased when they plan a quiet space where they can observe, connect with their inner thoughts, and reinvigorate their energy. In this video, children create a visual model that juxtaposes their busy pace and quiet spaces, with attention to the sounds, looks, and feeling of quiet spaces.

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Mount Rushmore, carved into South Dakota's Black Hills, features Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. It symbolizes pivotal moments in American history and leadership.

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Being a teenager isn’t always easy – but sometimes, books can provide the comfort and guidance we need. Few authors capture the adolescent experience better than young adult author Lois Lowry.

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Flip Folk Tales

Folktales become springboards for exploring new and imagined adventures, as children explore the perspectives and assumptions from several characters’ point of view. In this video, viewers are encouraged to flip stories, by modifying them in ways that add humor or surprise, and help them consider alternative points of view.

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Advocacy Avatars

Every person is unique with special qualities and needs that are not identical to any other. This video provides children with an opportunity to articulate their needs and strengths, using a third-person voice, their avatar. As children inspect their inner selves and articulate their feelings, attitudes, and special features, they find innovative ways to advocate for themselves and appreciate the person who lives inside.

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The Harlem Cultural Festival: Soul Time

The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, also known as Black Woodstock, was a watershed moment for Black culture in America - that history almost forgot.

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What Makes The Invisible Man a Classic?

First published as a novel in 1897, HG Wells' The Invisible Man is the story of a scientist corrupted by his own ambition. A gripping story of madness and immorality, its brutal conclusion still has the power to shock today.

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What Makes Dracula a Classic?

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula is the chilling tale of a bloodthirsty narcissist. Drawing on European folktales and gory accounts of a 15th century ruler, the novel reimagined the age-old vampire myth for a new generation.

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What Makes The Odyssey a Classic?

Homer's The Odyssey is the ancient Greek tale of one man's epic journey home from war. Full of vengeful gods and deadly sea monsters, its influence can be seen in countless books, comics and movies today.

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What Makes The Scarlet Letter a Classic?

First published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a novel that explores judgement, shame and redemption in 17th century Massachusetts.

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Musical Theatre: From Athens to Broadway

Musical Theater originated in Ancient Greece, but in the late 19th century the artform took America by storm.

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Ball Culture of New York City

Ball Culture can be traced as far back as the 1860s in New York City, where LGBTQ+ people began to create safe spaces where they could express and celebrate their identities freely.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Hand Drawn Selfies

Self-portraits are images that look outward and inward. In this activity, everyone will create a hand drawn selfie to explore self identity and experiment with what represents the person that others see

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Parks and Playgrounds

Parks, and public spaces give everyone opportunities to enjoy the outdoors. In this activity, you will observe how people use public spaces and then design parks and playgrounds that are attractive, fun, and functional.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Dream Car

From self-driving cars to amphibian roadsters, vehicles are always changing to meet human needs. In this activity, you will use the IDEA design thinking steps to create innovative new vehicles.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Design Innovations

Designers and engineers create new products by identifying unmet needs. Then defining, exploring, and assessing solutions. This activity uses the IDEA Design Thinking Process to re-imagine and improve items used every day at home, school or in your community.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | What Happened Next

Sequencing helps us understand the main idea of a story and how changing the order can change the meaning and outcome. In this activity, you will illustrate a sequence of events in a story and organize them in ways that follow and then change the plot.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Do You See What I Hear

Understanding stories involves listening and visualizing. In this activity, you will create illustrations based on a story you have heard or read.

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Abstract Expressionism

By showing people that art can be used to express what we feel, rather than what we see, Abstract Expressionism changed how we define what art is.

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Indigenous North American Tattoos

To Indigenous Americans, tattoos aren’t just decorative, they’re also sacred, rich in artistry and meaning, and of huge social, cultural and religious significance.

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STEAM | Let's Doodle Together

Visual thinking is an important way of communicating! In this activity, children will design imaginative STEAM solutions to solve real-world problems.

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Why Storytelling is so Powerful

How our emotional response to storytelling can inform animation and gaming.

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What is Ideation?

The team at Unity discuss how they formate their ideas and put them into action.

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How Do We Define Genre and Audience?

The team at Unity look at the impact of genre and audience in storytelling decision making.

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What is the Process of Production?

The team at Unity takes you through the stages of Production

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How Do We Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom?

Unity provides offline and online tasks for digital storytelling to use in every classroom

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The Role of the Technical Accounts Manager

Ciaron O'Connor talks about what it's it like being a Technical Accounts Manager in the fast-paced environment at a major Global tech company. He gives detailed information on the non-traditional path he made into the role and talks about what his job entails on a day-to-day basis

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Connect a Main Idea

Children learn a writing technique for organizing their ideas into an overarching main idea, which becomes foundational for pulling an entire story together. Working collaboratively, they write and sketch their interests on individual cards that they decorate as train cars. Collectively the group of children discusses which ideas could be combined with others and connected to create a main idea for their writing.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Stories Need Personality, Place, and Plot

Looking at pictures can help us create characters with their own personalities, create your own characters and add details that reveal parts of their personality. Share and describe your characters to others, then you can create a story together.

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CREATE Relationships | Engaging Fully

Sometimes, the books we read can influence how we view ourselves and others. Books tell us who is important, and whose stories matter. Examining books helps us see gaps. Who else should be seen and heard in books?

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | What if Objects Told Stories?

Imagine you found an old object that had been hidden away for years. What if the object could talk? In this activity, you will explore an old object, then sculpt your own, and develop a story based on fact and fiction.

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Walter Dean Myers

Author of more than 100 books for young readers, Walter Dean Myers overcame many struggles in his personal life to write stories that represented the Black experience and the struggles of young Americans.

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Children identify some objects or experiences as they might evolve in the future. They doodle the outlines of their ideas based on observation, exploration, and imagination. They contribute individually to a collaborative art presentation, where they invite the audience to join the doodle experience. Through this experience they gain skill in using the arts elements of line, shape, color, and pattern to demonstrate a forward-thinking growth mindset, express their curiosity, and develop collaboration skills.

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My Style And Your Style

Some children learn by moving, listening carefully, visually noticing details, using logic, and being aware of others. In this video, they articulate their strengths and notice those that they admire in others. They work in pairs to show ways they can work together by combining their individual styles.

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Not What It Seems

When we meet someone new, we form a first impression of them. But art can help us to explore what’s underneath to learn who a person really is.

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Speak up For Adaptations

Children will use their people leadership skills to realize playground needs of those with a range of abilities. They plan adaptation for a city park to include the needs of all and present their plan to City Council decision makers. What adaptations can you imagine that would increase inclusion at a community park?

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What Makes A Doll's House a Classic?

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is a feminist drama that challenged social convention - and scandalised 19th century audiences. First performed in Denmark in 1879, its subversive themes still resonate today.

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What Makes Little Women a Classic?

When Little Women was first released in 1868, it sold 2,000 copies in just two days. A coming-of-age story that defied convention, it has gripped and inspired readers for generations.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Write an Adventure

Our imaginations can take us anywhere. To a quiet setting or a busy city filled with sights and sounds. In this activity, you will create a travel journal from a personal perspective, or by pretending to be an imaginary character.

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Protest Music of the Vietnam War

In protest against the Vietnam War - one of the most divisive conflicts in US history - American musicians wrote and performed hundreds of songs calling for peace and criticising the US government’s handling of the war.

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Graffiti: Street Art or Vandalism?

Do you see Graffiti or Street Art? Explore the "pioneering era" of graffiti that took place during the years 1969 through 1974, as well as its enduring appeal today.

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CREATE Relationships | Extend Expectations

Having positive relationships with others helps us plan the future and set high expectations for our success, the relationships, interests and paths we will take as we look upwards and onwards.

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Vincent van Gogh

This is a timeline of events in the life of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, from 1853 - 1890. Known for his vivid and unique oil paintings, Vincent van Gogh found it hard to make a living from his art and struggled with his mental health during his lifetime.

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Four Ways to be a Leader

Leadership Mindsets lead people to deeper self and social awareness and responsible decision-making. Leaders who focus on people, culture, results and innovative thought inspire positive change and work effectively with others. This video shows how children can focus on four ways they can be leaders and graphically document their leadership strengths with art.

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What Makes Silas Marner a Classic?

First published in 1860, but set decades earlier, George Eliot's Silas Marner took its first readers back to a pre-industrial world. A story that celebrates human connection, it explores how caring for a child changes one man's life forever.

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What Makes Moby Dick a Classic?

First published in 1851, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold just a few thousand copies in its author's lifetime. A thrilling novel about man's obsessive quest to conquer nature, its environmental themes still resonate today.

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Anna May Wong: The First Chinese-American Hollywood Star

Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese-American leading lady, broke through racial barriers to change the face of cinema forever.

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What are the mysteries of the Washington Monument?

Towering above the National Mall is the Washington Monument. But what are the secrets behind the building of this 100,000 ton testament to the life and achievements of George Washington? David Rubenstein answers that question in a fact-filled history minute.

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Bluegrass Music

Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains was the birthplace of Bluegrass Music and Bill Monroe who became the Godfather of the Bluegrass

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Moved by Math | Harvest Hunt

Drawing and sculpting helps us to understand math ideas. In this activity, you will learn about sorting and multiplying by creating an imaginary garden full of 3D fruits and vegetables, and use them to play math games

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Meet Me

Portraits can be realistic or fantastical. But they all reveal something about the person. In this activity, you will learn how to read portraits, then create self portraits and personal stories.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Colorful Ways and Colorful Days

Looking at illustrations before reading the words in picture books helps us see that there are many different ways of telling stories. In this activity, you will look at the pictures in a book, then retell the story as a puppet play.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Colourful World of Animals

Nature and art can inspire us to tell amazing stories. In this activity, you will create an imaginary animal and build a story around it.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | The Future I See

When we imagine the future, we visualize our hopes and dreams. In this activity, you will create magic mirrors and personal sculptures to explore the endless possibilities of the future.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Celebrate and Honor

Art and writing offer us opportunities to celebrate traditions and honor those who have made a difference. In this activity, everyone will create a sculpture and write an accompanying tribute plaque to celebrate someone in their family or community.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | If I Was There

Stories that are personally relevant help us to understand the difference between fact and fiction. In this activity, you will create figurines that represent you, and illustrate scenes from a story as you imagine, "What if I was there?"

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STEAM | Blend Ideas to Make Them Better

Scientists, tech experts, engineers, artists and mathematicians get excited when they think of good ideas and blend them with other ideas. In this activity, children will create a board game and work together to make it better.

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STEAM | Finding Fascinating Problems

Our brains like questions, movement, and visual exercises. In this activity, students will research and illustrate how the brain works when actively engaged in finding and solving fascinating problems.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Be Creative

Art is a great way to share your thoughts and feelings with others – but how does someone be creative? By following four steps: create, present, respond, and connect!

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's See Your Thinking

By inviting us to think in new ways, and see how different ideas are connected, idea webs help us build brain power!

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's CREATE Relationships

The ways we interact with and talk about others can CREATE positive productive relationships. Let’s learn about the CREATE Relationships tools!

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Explore STEAM Teams

New inventions and improvements are almost always made by teams – innovation is a team sport! This video will explore how STEAM teams work collaboratively to solve problems.

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Developing 21st Century Skills Through Storytelling

How storytelling builds on students existing technological skills to build the 21st century skills they need to thrive in future careers.

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Aurore from Unity introduces the power of the Unity editor platform and resources for students and teachers

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Pam Muñoz Ryan

Author of groundbreaking novels like “Esperanza Rising" and "Echo," Pam Muñoz Ryan has made literature more representative by expertly mining her own rich Mexican American heritage.

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Freeze the Past, Present, And Future

Children engage in story creation and visual storytelling through images, drama, and then freeze into tableaux, which are human statues. After they interpret and perform the other groups’ story, they will compare various teams’ interpretations to see if the performances were aligned with the artists’ intent. These experiences build children’s future ready skills of visual communication, dramatic self-expression, and team collaboration.

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Children work in pairs to improvise spoken and sketched dialogue, using visual and verbal prompts to build the capacity they need to react quickly to situations, prepare for unexpected events and build future-ready skills.

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Dorothy Bolden: Unionizing Domestic Workers

Civil rights activist Dorothy Bolden made it her mission to empower America’s working class. Her activism empowered domestic workers across the nation – and created noticeable change in the workplace for thousands of Black women.

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Greenbrier Resort: The Secret Nuclear Bunker

The Greenbrier Bunker was constructed to protect Congress from nuclear annihilation. It’s one of America’s longest-kept secrets.

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Social and Emotional Learning | Buddies Keep Me Company

Traveling in pairs can be double the fun, in this activity you will create and trade buddies to learn how to see situations from others' points of view.

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A Mistake Is A Gift

When a mistake is made, it is a moment of decision: toss away what was started or find a creative way to revise what was being created. Children in this video use their handwriting mistakes as opportunities to design something different and create interesting illustrations and playful flaps/windows that get woven into and around the words they write. An "oops" provides the gift of taking a new path and using creative thinking, a skill that prepares children for the future.

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Ways I Make A Difference

There are many ways that children’s individual actions make a difference and can address big concerns. In this video, the children choose the issue of water conservation. They explore uses for water and identify where there is waste. They use their observation/investigation tool to look closely for signs of the impact water has on the environment. Then they present their observations and recommendations for conserving water and gather others’ ideas.

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Welcome Everyone

Harvest is usually a time of bounty, and often people give thanks and share. There are celebrations and festivals. In this video, children explore some consistent patterns and special unique features as they study various harvest celebrations, then use elements to create patterned welcoming decorations.

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We All Contribute

Children each contribute something to collectively drawn images. Moving around to a different drawing station to respond to each prompt, they learn to build upon others’ ideas and work together to make their art come alive.

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Picture Possibilities

As the population grows and land becomes increasingly valuable, for sale signs invite conversations about the possible uses of fields and farms. Decisions about land use impact communities for a long time, so visualizing the future is important. In this video, an orchard is for sale. The children consider possible future uses for this land, visualize three possibilities, and encourage viewers to come up with ideas of their own.

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Hear Many Points of View

Cultural leadership involves listening to many points of view and understanding the role that diverse backgrounds and cultural priorities have on people. In this video the children ask, “What does arts in education mean and why is it important?” They use an open mindset to hear about different preferences and see how cultural traditions help learners connect to ideas and each other.

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Forecasting the Future

The children in this video are challenged to forecast the future needs of their community to recommend features that will expand the reach and effectiveness of their current library into a futuristic Media Center. They demonstrate ways to conduct research, connect with community members and anticipate future needs. The children lead an exciting process for forecasting the future and designing a community learning hub.

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Why Characters Act That Way

A key element of stories is how characters change from beginning to middle to end. In this video, children learn about how and why characters change by creating a 3-part story. They then dramatize the story using simple puppets made of three basic shapes and primary colors. These characters change the way they look and act, as a result of encountering one another. Join them to see what happens as they change and grow.

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Find Everyone's Strengths

Project-based learning requires teamwork. This collaboration requires planning. In this video, children create a tool to identify team members’ strengths, figure out what they want to learn from each other, and stretch themselves in new ways. The flexible tool they craft can work for any project. People leaders connect skills, interests, and assignments in ways that foster social and emotional learning.

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Many Ways to Measure Success

How do you measure success? In this video, children explore Results Leadership by creating a pictorial rubric that enables self-reflections about their collaboration and contributions to a project. The concepts can be applied to any project and help children move up the learning ladder, from beginning novice to striving for mastery. Join them as they discover the power of self-assessment and visualization, finding important ways to communicate their success.

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What Makes Gulliver's Travels a Classic?

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the story of one man's adventures in fantastical lands. First published in 1726, it's a book that asks a timeless question: can a perfect society ever be achieved?

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Library of Congress

Home to millions of books and manuscripts, the Library of Congress is a hub of culture and knowledge, pioneering digital accessibility while safeguarding America's rich history.

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Awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, recognizing a lifetime of influential literary works, Ray Bradbury wrote from a desire to “live forever”. Through sci fi, fantasy, horror and mystery to themes of death, loneliness and the dark side of human nature.

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The White House

The White House is perhaps the most iconic work of architecture in America - learn how it's design and style represents power, democracy and liberty.

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War of the Worlds: The Hoax of a Century

The infamous 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast was a 'fake' news report of a devastating alien invasion advancing on New York City - that changed broadcasting forever.

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Moved by Math | Math Path

Art helps us to understand math ideas as we observe, talk about and sketch what we see. In this activity, you will sketch outdoors and use multiplication to turn your draft drawings into art filled with patterns.

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Moved by Math | Prices and Percentages

Combining art and math can help you understand prices and making good choices. In this activity, you will create a collage of images that will help you understand the difference between what you want and what you need. You will need: markers, scissors, a glue stick, paper pad, picture frame, optional recycled newspaper for store flyers.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Change Poems

Poetry helps us explore our inner selves and see the self we show others. In this activity, you will write poems that describe who you are and how people change.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Look Around

Observing and describing what you see is important. In this activity, you will make in play a "what do I see?" game then create an opposites book.

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Moved by Math | Foot Traffic

People measure all types of things every day: distances walked, sizes of clothing or a room, quantities of food and time for cooking. In this activity, you will trace your feet and cut them out to use as non-standard measures, then create pictographs to represent the data you collect.

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The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African American culture and creativity that began in 1920s New York.

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Yellowstone: The First National Park

The first dedicated National Park anywhere in the world, Yellowstone attracts 318 million visitors every year. It was saved for posterity by the work of two pioneering artists.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Cause and Effect

Looking closely at art helps us imagine a story and predict how it could change. In this activity, you will use a piece of art as a story starter – then predict what could happen next.

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STEAM | Imitate Nature's Solutions

Nature solves problems in surprising and inventive ways. In this activity, children will create a biomimicry card game and think about the ways in which nature can be imitated to solve real-world problems.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Look and Sketch

Observing helps us connect what we see to what we know and want to know. In this activity, you’ll make sketches to learn about the patterns, shapes, colors and lines we see in nature.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Read Art

Using SEEK questions helps us to discover and learn about the world – and see art in new ways!

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Write With Intention

When authors and artists make art, they intentionally make decision – and the Intentional Writing Framework can help you create art too!

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Federal Art Project

Thanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ambitious New Deal plan, American artists were able to keep working during the Great Depression. The work they produced remains a key part of the American landscape.

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The Digital Storytelling Process

The team at Unity introduces the digital storytelling workflow process.

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Laurie Halse Anderson

For author Laurie Halse Anderson, a survivor of trauma, putting pen to paper allowed her to make sense of the world. Discover how the acclaimed Young Adult author has connected with readers across the globe.

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CREATE Relationships | Accept and Learn From Mistakes

Making mistakes is part of being human. When we figure out what went wrong we learn how to solve future problems and improve our skills.

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How did one woman's beauty empire change America?

In the early 20th century, most hair products on the market were designed for caucasian hair. So how did one Black female entrepreneur, Madam C.J. Walker show America how business could be done? David Rubenstein answers that question in a fact-filled history minute.

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The Great American Songbook

The Great American Songbook, a collection of jazz standards and show tunes created by talented songwriters in early 20th century New York, provided solace and joy during difficult times in U.S. history.

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Courageous Conversations

Children use art as a way of learning how words and behaviors impact people. They create Courageous Conversation collages as springboards for dialogue that is important and difficult. Courageous conversations are the hard ones, the deep ones – the discussions about how we have been hurt by others’ words and actions.

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The Way We See Things

Any event or circumstance can be experienced from more than one point of view. Children explore a storm (snow or rain) from indoors and outdoors to realize that what we see, hear, feel, and remember changes the way we see experiences.

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Everyday Unsung Heroes

Our communities are full of unsung heroes who work hard to keep things running smoothly. Let’s create a Gratitude Collage to learn about and celebrate their contributions.

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Emotions Alive Game

When we create and play games together, we learn about new things and each other. Let’s create an Emotions Game to learn how to listen and solve problems.

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Build Resilience

Everyone goes through difficult situations, but art can help you build the resilience you need to control your emotions and make smart decisions.

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Listen To All Sides

Children will analyze a dispute to identify the problem, listen to all sides, develop a solution, and then develop a broader set of “rules” based on listening to all sides. They demonstrate how to collaboratively create a Rules Poster that they vote on and illustrate.

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This child-led video focuses on Results Leadership and demonstrates how young children can manage a process for building self-awareness and self-agency to set and accomplish goals. This example focuses on children setting swimming goals and measuring their progress, but as they realize, the ideas here pertain to every aspect of life and learning.

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Young children are experts at play. In this video, children begin their thought leadership challenge by identifying games and toys that children have played with for generations, and by noticing changes in the types of toys and materials they were made from.

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Convincing others includes starting by gathering information and then presenting what was discovered in compelling ways. This video focuses on using pictographs to present data that convinces decision makers to make a change.

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Connect With Community Artists

Non-traditional artists enhance every community’s quality of life by meeting everyday needs while bringing rich cultural traditions to many art forms: bread-making, gardening, hairstyles, home décor, and head coverings, to name just a few. Let’s learn a little about how some of them make their art and how enjoying their artistry teaches us more about the cultural diversity and common needs in our community.

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Visuals Show Results

Leadership Mindsets lead people to deeper self and social awareness and responsible decision-making. Leaders who focus on people, culture, results and innovative thought inspire positive change and work effectively with others. This video shows how children can focus on four ways they can be leaders and graphically document their leadership strengths with art.

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What Makes The Jungle Book a Classic?

The stories in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book are set deep in the Indian jungle, in a dangerous world without parents - and with few rules. First published as a collection in 1894, the book's themes of belonging and identity are still relevant today.

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Julia Alvarez's remarkable contributions to Hispanic literature explore immigrant experiences, cultural identity, and resistance against injustice.

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The Role of the Technical Evangelist

A Technical Evangelist is constantly learning and presenting information passionately to a large room of people a, whilst constantly learning. Somewhat of a globetrotter, Liz Mecuri highlights the fact that most business travel is not glamourous at all!

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Pieces of the Puzzle

Puzzles are favorite playful experiences for children, but beyond the fun and sense of accomplishment, they help children understand relationships between part and whole, and use evidence/clues to predict a whole visual scene. The process of creating and sharing puzzles demonstrated in this video can be used to help learners focus on any topic, category, or interest area.

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Storytellers Imagine The Future

Storytelling and artmaking are foundational skills for communicating ideas. In this video, the children imagine themselves as artists representing future settings and roles – dreaming of potential careers and their personal aspirations. Their art will visualize a future setting and a “grown-up” role. They realize that anyone who creates or responds to art is a storyteller. All it takes is imagination – a thinking skill that makes people future ready.

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Chicano Art Movement

The Chicano Art Movement was an explosion of Mexican-American culture that established a unique artistic identity in the United States - and raised up a new political voice.

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What Makes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz a Classic?

Published at the dawn of the 20th Century, L Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was far from a traditional children's story. A feminist fairytale with a radical message, it struck a chord with readers across the United States.

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How Words Make People Feel

The words we say to each other affect our relationships, so it’s important to talk to and about other people with kindness and care. In this activity you will explore how words and tone of voice make people feel included or excluded, then create a mask that shows how others’ comments make you feel.

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Architects of The Future

Architects must think flexibly about the changing needs of school structures and students. In this video the focus will be on designing accessible, inclusive space that fosters future ready skills and behaviors: observation, collaboration, and reflection. Join a group of kids on their creative characters where they plan and then build a 3D model of a future-ready school.

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Fabric of the Future

An invention is the creation of something new, usually to solve a problem or improve circumstances. In this video, characters will explore how fabrics were used by ancient peoples for clothing, warmth, shelter, and protection. Then they’ll see how innovators have modified fabrics to make them better and imagine new sustainable fabrics for the future. Finally, they design and present clothing designs for the future using these innovative fabrics.

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Metaphors Say it Colorfully

Metaphoric thinking is personal and poetic. Metaphorical perspectives are important for writers as they explore ways to express themselves. In this video, children discover metaphors to describe their perceptions and feelings, in response to existing art, then they create an illustrated poem, based on their colorful metaphorical descriptions.

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What Makes Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde a Classic?

First published in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde struck fear into the heart of Victorian readers. A sinister story of a split personality, its psychological themes still resonate today.

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What Makes The Tempest a Classic?

Completed around 1611, The Tempest is thought to be the last play that William Shakespeare ever wrote. Set on an enchanted island, its themes of power and betrayal have captivated audiences for centuries.

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Whose portrait went viral in the 1800s?

In the 1800s, abolitionist Frederick Douglass made it his mission to become the most photographed man in America. So how did his image change the country? David Rubenstein investigates in a fact-filled history minute.

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The Birth of Photojournalism

At the height of the American Civil War, New York photographer Mathew Brady pioneered the art of Photojournalism - and brought the harsh realities of war home for the very first time.

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Moved by Math | More or Less

When you draw pictures, your art shows what you think and feel. In this activity, you will create drawings of what you see outside your window. And, with some help form number sentences that use addition and subtraction.

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Moved by Math | Order it Again

Shapes, lines, sizes and patterns are all part of math - and art. In this activity, you will create characters with modeling clay, then put them in order in lots of different ways. First to last, shortest to tallest, biggest to smallest.

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Moved by Math | Math and Me

When we use art to weave math into stories, we make it fun and memorable. In this activity, you will use your imagination to create art that adds extra noses, eyes, and maybe even animal features to people. You will need: washable markers, crayons, paper, blunt tip scissors, and a glue stick.

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Moved by Math | Visual Symbols

Visual symbols are everywhere, helping us find what we need, identify locations and communicate with others without using words. In this activity, you will learn about the power of simple images by using shapes and lines to design original symbols that others can count on.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Animals Big and Small

Observing what is the same or different is an important skill for 21st century learners. In this activity, you will design and play a hand-made card game to learn about animal families and build observation skills.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | Weather or Not Game

We all need to be ready for whatever weather is coming. What can you do to prepare for unexpected weather? In this activity, you will design and play a game that helps you explore different types of weather and make decisions when you face unexpected situations.

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Writing Art-Inspired Stories | Late Arrivals

When stories talk about the passing of time, it helps us to understand how things change. In this activity, you will create illustrations that will reflect the beginning, middle and end of a story.

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STEAM for 21st Century Learners | All the Best Moves

We can use the five STEAM disciplines - science, technology, engineering, art, and math - to explore living and non-living things.

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STEAM | What's Missing?

Outdoor explorations often have unexpected experiences and problems that need to be figured out. In this video, children take a hike, are surprised by a rainstorm, and use inquiry to discover how STEAM explorers solve problems.

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Create to Learn Live Action | Let's Build Stories

Whether we start with a personal experience or by looking at art, when we ask questions, we build stories. Your imagination helps bring the characters, setting and plot to life.

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Why Tell Digital Stories?

The significance of storytelling and how technology changes the way we tell stories in the digital age.

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The Pedagogical Use of Stories in Education

How we combine storytelling in education with digital technologies to supercharge learning.

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What is Project Management?

The team at Unity discusses the way they breakdown Project Management

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How Do We Create a Narrative?

The team at Unity introduces their take on Narrative

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The Role of the Art Director

Peet Lee, takes us through how he came to be an Art Director at Unity Technologies. He gives an insight into how the creative space is changing with the advent of more powerful software programs and artificial intelligence.

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Reflect on Today's Stories

Children will create a time capsules to store their original writing. The young authors will individually determine what genre they will use to write about an interesting or significant, timely event or experience. Then, in a future month or year, they will open the time capsules and reflect upon how their thoughts and feelings might have changed.

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CREATE Relationships | Respect Diversity

Our communities are made up of lots of different people. Understanding how we are similar and different helps us create positive relationships with others.

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Author Nic Stone tried many jobs before finding passion in writing, when her travels abroad inspired her to write stories and novels that spotlight issues faced by marginalized groups across the globe.

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Edith Maude Eaton: Fostering Cultural Understanding Through Writing

In a time when Chinese immigrants in America faced discrimination in all walks of life – simply because of their race – author Edith Maude Eaton channeled the power of the pen to help make positive change.

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Social and Emotional Learning | Everyone Has Feelings

You build social and emotional skills by thinking about what other people feel and recognizing feelings in yourself. In this activity, you will create a book that illustrates a variety of feelings.

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Social and Emotional Learning | Gifts of Kindness

You learn about responsibility and kindness by focusing on what you can do to help others.

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My Beautiful Brain

The concept of the brain taking in information and making decisions seems abstract for young children. Helping them realize what it is like to have limited sensory input makes them aware of the brain’s role in connecting what we see, touch, and hear with our understanding of self and others. In this video, the children create sensory muting equipment. They then experience and compare beautiful sounds, tactile objects, and images with and without muting their senses.

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Find Your Superpowers

Superheroes help others. Every child has superpowers when they are kind and help one another. In this video the children explore their personal superpowers of kindness and caring that can be used every day to help themselves and others.

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Read Body Language

Learning how to read body language can help us to interact with the people around us. Let’s create body language brushstroke paintings and then bring them to life through tableau drama.

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The Power of Art to Persuade

Children will explore Artivism as the blend of art and activism. After researching examples of how images shifted public opinion, the children create posters, banners, and signs that make their personal passions public. They use visuals and crisp text to convey messages.

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Kindness and Belonging

In this video, students will plan an adventure with friends, assume leadership roles based on their strengths, and think about how they would welcome a new team member.

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