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Why can moving from one video to the next leave you feeling more bored? This video and its accompanying student activities explore attention, curiosity, and what happens when we keep searching for something else to watch.
Explore Activity: Why Does Scrolling Leave You More Bored?
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Explore friendship, responsibility, and belonging with the four friends from The Wind in the Willows. Activities featuring art and poetry invite students to interpret the novel, make comparisons, and write new scenes.
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Can hearing the same claim again and again make it easier to believe? This video and its accompanying student activities explore the difference between a claim that feels familiar and one supported by evidence.
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Is the effort you’ve already put in a good enough reason to keep going? Explore the sunk cost effect and how past investments of time and effort influence our next decisions.
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Explore fear, empathy, and our assumptions about other living things through The Big Dreams of Small Creatures. This booklet brings together 15 activities for middle school students, connecting the story with science, art, and creative writing.
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Enter Peter Pan’s world to explore imagination, freedom, and what it means to care for others. Activities connecting the novel with poetry and art invite students to question the characters’ choices and create stories of their own.
Explore Activity: Peter PanAt the end of a lesson, you ask, “Do you understand?” A few students say yes. Others nod. It seems as though the class is ready to move…
Read Article: What Can We Ask Instead of “Do You Understand?”You ask the class a question. Two students immediately raise their hands. Others look down at their books, turn a pencil between their fingers, or get ready to…
Read Article: You Asked the Question. Did You Wait for the Answer?
