Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15, provides an opportunity to explore the incredible impact Latinas and Latinos have had on the United States for generations.
Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
Football for Schools (F4S) is an ambitious program run by FIFA, in collaboration with UNESCO, which aims to contribute to the education, development, and empowerment of approximately 700 million children around the world. It seeks to make football more accessible to both boys and girls by incorporating football activities into the education system, in partnership with relevant authorities and stakeholders.
Abigail Adams is famous for appealing to her husband, John Adams, during the months prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In correspondences with her husband as he and other leaders were framing a government for the United States, Abigail Adams argued that the laws of the new nation should recognize women as something more than property and protect them from the arbitrary and unrestrained power men held over them.
Women’s courage, leadership, and ideas helped shape the early United States. Their names rarely appear in textbooks, but their impact is unmistakable.
In the 50 years since the bicentennial, the last major celebration of the nation’s birth, our knowledge of the American Revolution has radically expanded. The founders remain the central figures, but since the 1970s, historians have uncovered the fascinating, dramatic lives of many other players whose contributions were previously overlooked or lost in the archives.
Marathon Kids is a nonprofit organization with a program designed to combat youth inactivity by encouraging children to engage in regular physical activity through running.
A free digital textbook overseen by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center helps high school and college students nationwide learn the past through the lens of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
The Notable Social Studies Trade Book Awards is an annual project of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and The Children’s Book Council (CBC). The award list features annotated titles published in the previous calendar year that are exceptional books for use in K–12 social studies classrooms, selected by social studies educators.
What do polygons sound like? What rhythms do different fractions make? The unique music tools in Polypad provide a whole new dimension for students and teachers to interact with mathematics.
Imagine a world where engineering is a household conversation in every community and where minority students can see themselves thriving as engineers.