Or see their 2011 post, 20 Ways to Teach About the Disaster in Japan Across the Curriculum, to find more easily updatable ideas.
Meet with the teachers your students will have next year (or look at the following year's texts and curriculum) to find links between what they need to review from this year, with what they will find interesting next year.
I wouldn't have been able to explore different fields of study, have late night talks with friends of different cultures, gain the flexibility in curriculum to find my real passion, learn independence through the power of freedom and discover more about myself when pushed beyond my comfort zone.
In New York, the Amistad Commission is charged with surveying school curriculums to find out how much is included about "the African slave trade and slavery in America" and to make recommendations for improvement.
Participants described their struggle to tie "fun ideas" to the curriculum or to find "activities to fit the curriculum" (p. 165).
What this means is that a faculty member who has taught a module one year might well be posted elsewhere the following year, requiring the tobacco curriculum coordinator to find a new faculty member to teach the module.
When it comes to the early education level, no engineering curriculum is there to find.
Sure, I learned scientific facts in Catholic school, but they were paired with a confusing and entirely separate curriculum about how to find truth and meaning and love and beauty.
Perhaps even more importantly, in Dallas, Portland, Chicago and cities across the nation, or the whole state of North Carolina, school districts are rethinking the curriculum and beginning to find ways to use the arts and art integration to give young people the skills they need to be vital part of the new economy workforce...a workforce which will demand a focus on creativity and innovation.
But in order to show those videos, it will be left to classroom teachers who want to take part in the campaign and brave enough to divert for a while from the required high-stakes test prep curriculum, and smart enough to find a way to override the classroom Internet ban.
