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Option 1: Create a Laughter First-Aid Box.In the article, Mary Laskin, a nurse case manager, said she recommended “laughter first-aid boxes” for her patients, where they can stash joke books, funny toys and other props for this purpose.Assemble your own laughter first-aid box. It can be a physical kit like the one pictured above, or…

How do these three questions prompt you to do something similar to some of the suggestions made in the article you just read? Can you apply them to some of the pieces you found in your art collection?If you’d like to practice your visual observation skills, join us Mondays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records” by David LeonhardtOn Sept. 27, The New York Times published the results of an examination of decades of personal and corporate tax records for President Trump…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Kids Need Superheroes Now More Than Ever” by Megan MarguliesIn the featured article, Megan Margulies, granddaughter of the creator of Captain America, writes about how comic books and “magical thinking” can help children get through…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Mind Games: The Conservation Test” by Erik VanceWhat’s happening in the wonderful, hectic little heads of small children? This is the question Mr. Vance seeks to answer by inviting experts in cognitive development to demonstrate…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Queer Kids, Nerds and Sword Fights: It’s the Hot School Play” by Elisabeth VincentelliDo you enjoy going to plays and watching performances? Are you a self-proclaimed “theater kid?” Or do you prefer being behind the…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Learn to Argue Productively” by Harry Guinness“Like most things, there’s a skill to having good arguments,” Mr. Guinness writes. “Productive disagreements aren’t all-out shouting matches with a victor and a loser; they’re deliberate attempts to…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds” by Shannon Stirone, Kenneth Chang and Dennis OverbyeAstronomers on Monday reported the detection of a chemical in the acidic Venusian clouds — phosphine — which…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until September 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “When You Love, and Loathe, Watching the N.F.L.” by Kurt StreeterThe N.F.L.’s new season began on Sept. 10. But this sports year is unlike any other. Kurt Streeter, a Sports of the Times columnist, contemplates…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement” by Jennifer SchuesslerThis past August, the United States celebrated 100 years of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which established American women’s right to vote. But we’re discovering that the traditional telling of the women’s suffrage movement…