Lesson of the Day: ‘50 Years of Earth Day: What’s Better Today, and What’s...
In this lesson, you will learn what’s gotten better and what’s gotten worse in the five decades since millions of people marched to demand a cleaner, healthier environment. In a Going Further activity, you will consider what the focus of the environmental agenda should be in future decades.Warm UpWhat do you know about Earth Day?…
Lesson of the Day: ‘100 Years Ago, the Booziest January Suddenly Dried Up’
Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “100 Years Ago, the Booziest January Suddenly Dried Up” One hundred years ago, Prohibition began — outlawing the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol in the United States for more than a decade.In this lesson, you will learn about how Americans prepared for and adjusted…
Learning With: ‘From Clay Tablets to Smartphones: 5,000 Years of Writing’
6. The author writes: The slow abatement of handwriting today feels like the severing of a historical tie. It relates us to the Mesopotamians, to Chaucer, to that struggling Egyptian student. Finland, for instance, has dropped its handwriting requirements in schools in favor of typing lessons. In the United States, in 2010, Common Core standards…
Learning With: ‘The Upshot, Five Years In’
Before reading the article: How comfortable are you with reading graphs, including charts, maps and histograms? Have you ever found graphs to be useful or meaningful to your life? Are you ever confused or intimidated by them? What strategies do you use to read, interpret and evaluate them? The Upshot is a section of The…
