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The Resisterhood Learning Guide is designed to work in a variety of settings including classroom and higher education use, community education, and solo learning.
Together, the film and learning guide are powerful tools to start important conversations around voting, activism, and political engagement.
Lesson Grades: 10, 11, 12, College, Adult Learning
Subjects: Civics, Current Events, Community Service Learning, English Language Arts, Gender Studies, Government, History, Political Science, Service Learning, Social Studies, US History and Women’s Studies.
You can watch Resisterhood for free on Vimeo and campus screenings are also available for free through the filmmaker.
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Homeschoolers, if you are looking for free teaching resources, we've got your covered. We're a non-profit and we offer all of our educational materials free to everyone.
We currently offer lesson plans and discussion guides for grades 3-12 plus higher ed, across the curriculum.
Learn more about our free teaching tools and let us know if you have any questions.
https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-with-film-for-homeschooling/
We also offer resources for teaching about Political Corruption and Civic Engagement for Oscar-winning documentary Navalny. The two films make a powerful combination together that will empower students and boost student engagement.
Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-with-with-film-about-politicall-corruption-and-civic-engagement/
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Notre Dame News: Institute for Educational Initiatives launches free math app to help teachers strengthen students’ understanding of numbers and operations. “Researchers at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives have launched the Number Sense Assessment, a free, research-based math app now available to educators nationwide. The app helps teachers in grades […]
ERIC: Using LEGO® Brick Data to Teach SQL and Relational Database Concepts. “This paper introduces the LEGO® Database, a large natural dataset that can be used to teach Structured Query Language (SQL) and relational database concepts. This dataset is well-suited for introductory and advanced database assignments and end-of-semester group projects. The data is freely available from […]
Trinity College Dublin: Craft My Street: young people reimagine Dublin with Minecraft in Smart Docklands pilot. “This initiative was created by researchers from University College Dublin that uses gaming to amplify youth voices in city-making. Blending open-source geospatial data with interactive multiplayer crowd mapping, this project enables young people to propose real-world urban […]
DigitalNC: Explore Folk Art and Craft through Primary Sources. “Folklife and traditions like folk arts and crafts help people to form and define their identities and better understand how they relate to others. By examining folk arts and crafts, this source set aims to show the variety of folklife and traditions found in the state and asks us to examine our own relationship to folklife and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/digitalnc-explore-folk-art-and-craft-through-primary-sources/
KATC: Al Berard still teaching people how to fiddle through free YouTube lessons. “In celebration of what would have been beloved Cajun musician Al Berard’s 65th birthday, his family and supporters proudly announce the digital release of ‘Al Berard Teaches Cajun Fiddle for Beginners’ — a free instructional video series now available to the public on YouTube.”
Minnesota State University Moorhead: MSUM professor co-creates national health education resource . “Dr. Julie Knutson, Minnesota State Moorhead health education coordinator, is reshaping the way health educators teach. Dr. Knutson and Dr. Kristen Ford from Concordia College created THE FUSED Toolbox, the first centralized website offering teaching resources for K–12 health education.”
}If you are new to teaching with film or you just want to raise your game, we have your back!
The Journeys in Film Teacher Toolbox is full of tips, tools and handouts to make teaching with film fun and easy -- for you and for your students.
These materials were designed to work with all of our films. They can also work with a wide range of texts, games, and other media!
Get tips on how to get started teaching with film, how to choose films, and how to facilitate group discussions. Plus get our glossary of film terms (it's great for film and media literacy classes) . Our new Media Analysis handout is great for boosting belonging in the classroom, too. Pick and choose what you want to use.
Like all of our materials, these resources are free for everyone. Help yourself!
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/teacher-toolbox/
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For World Environment Day, we're highlighting our Environmental Studies Lesson Collection. Teach with film to boost student engagement about the environment all year long! These standalone lessons for grades 5 to 12 connect directly with key instruction areas like AP Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Service Learning and Social Studies.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/a-very-beautiful-world-environmental-studies-lessons/
#WorldEnvironmentDay #STEMEducation #Education #Homeschooling #Edutooters #EnvironmentalStudies #Teachers #TeachingResources @education @edutooters
DigitalNC: Explore Technology in the 20th Century with our new Primary Source Set. “As our society is consistently generating new and advanced technologies, looking back to these prior advancements can be both nostalgic and informative of how we got to today’s age of smartphones and AI. North Carolina had its fair share of historical moments with innovation, from the first successful flight […]
University of Guelph: Free Learning Materials on Equity, Disability Launched by U of G Researchers . “Bodies in Translation’s (BIT) Worlding Difference Platform is an online platform and research project launched by the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice, a University of Guelph research hub that investigates the power of arts and storytelling. The platform features multimedia […]
DigitalNC: Barbecue, Biscuits, and More: New Primary Source Set on North Carolina Foodways. “Consisting of various written, visual, and audiovisual materials, the North Carolina Foodways set demonstrates key aspects of food history in the state through primary sources. The set also includes sections for context statements, background information, a timeline, discussion questions, and relevant […]
Celebrate World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development with The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble. This stunning documentary follows more than 50 international instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. 1/2
#GlobalEducation #TeachingResources #Music #MusicHistory #SilkRoad #CulturalExchange #YoYoMa #Film #Documentary @film
Brown University: Collaborative project yields new digital archive on hidden history of Indigenous enslavement. “Long a password-protected database used mostly by researchers and people looking for ancestors, Stolen Relations is set to go public on Saturday, May 10, as part of a symposium at Brown. When it does, anyone in the world will be able to access its 7,000 records, a collection of […]
We offer two mini discussion guides for The Crisis Scientists, one for high schools and one for universities. The guides offer questions for discussion or writing plus extension activities and additional resources. Students can make notes directly on the printable handout. At six minutes long, The Crisis Scientists works as a classroom warm-up or can be the focus of an entire lesson. 2/2
Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-crisis-scientists/
Teach about Islam with film. We're highlighting some of our favorite global education films that center Muslim stories to help you teach about Islam and counter Islamophobia all year round.
Learn more and get free teaching resources for these engaging films:
https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/teach-about-islam-with-film/
#SocialStudies #GlobalEducation #TeachingResources #Islam #WorldReligions #Religion #Education #Homeschooling @education @edutooters
Center for Transformational Play: Echo of the Abyss. “Echo of the Abyss is a Virtual Reality (VR) experience that immerses users in a simulated deep-sea dive. The game aims to foster a sense of connection and curiosity towards marine ecosystems by allowing players to embody a diver, guided by aquatic animals, in a safe and contemplative virtual environment. The design leverages theories from […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/center-for-transformational-play-echo-of-the-abyss/
