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…
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…
Film Club: ‘Earthrise: 50 Years Since Apollo 8’
This is where we live. In space. On a marble fortified against bottomless blackness by a shell of air and color, fragile and miraculous as a soap bubble.In 1968, we Earthlings knew that already, sort of. But that abstract notion became visceral on Christmas Eve of that year. While scouting landing spots on the moon,…
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?…
