Classroom

Explore the significance of Juneteenth and the value of making it a national holiday

Examine why the speech was a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement through a visual drawing or illustration

Examine the words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in relation to Jan. 6

Generate and discuss questions about the day of 9/11 and its legacy

Learn how to identify problems you care about using the invention process

Teach students how to design their own inventions that help their communities

Learn about the ways history is still being uncovered today

Pitch ideas for solving problems in your community

Learn what strategies inventors use to solve problems they see around them

Give advice to a younger version of yourself in this creative writing activity

Engage in a "close reading" of a timeless Jacob Lawrence painting through art-making, observation and analysis

Students will watch Jasmine Gardosi perform her poem on an actual roller coaster and then craft their own poem