Social Studies, Human Resources and Adptations

How would vegetarians do in your hometown?

I have a cousin that has done a lot of work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida. It is an organization that works for the rights of migrant farm workers. http://www.ciw-online.org/freedom_march/index.html. There is also a link to the Modern Day Slavery Museum that travels around the South Eastern US.

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

Featured on Garrison Keillor, Jewel is giving birth to baby black bears, apparently. Camera uses infrared light so is not noticed by bear.

The Learning Network is a blog connecting learning with content found in the New York Times. There are lesson plans and ideas to teach students about what is happening today and in the past.

A quote on the Martin Luther King memorial will be changed.

This is 20 quick and to the point food rules published in the NY Times approved by Michael Pollan

Here is more information about green corps.

Interactive games to help students with their map skills

How to Teach History Facts the Fun Way. Tips and Activities to teach History facts in a way that will interest students and keep them engaged.

Thanks for tip on this one Tammy!

This book is packed full of information about what to do with "leftover food" after it is produced and consumed. It would be an interesting read for upper elementary students.

Thanks for linking this great teaching resource up to the Diigo group Brianna. Another wonderful connection, which also attests to the power of online petitioning, this time from a 4th grade teacher and his class, can be found here: http://www.change.org/petitions/z-let-the-lorax-speak-for-the-trees?utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert. Essentially his petition, which was signed by tens of thousands of individuals, helped shape the focus of the upcoming film version of the Lorax from Universal Studios. Isn't this a great?

Everybody Cooks Rice is a book presented beautifully by these elementary school students!

A man walks in a dreamlike state around Minneapolis, thirty years ago.

I love these virtual field trip opportunities. I always think of my grandma, who had one book with one map to teach world geography to all her students in a one room school house. We've just got no excuse not to be exciting these days. ; )

Reading Like a Historian Prompts

Thanks Lindsey!