KID PRESIDENT: ARE WE THERE YET | BAGGAGE

Robby and Brad traveled to Springfield, Missouri to visit Kyle who is putting on "A Funeral for the People We Used to Be." He is collecting submissions from people of all the things they want to let go about the past so he can burn them in a cardboard viking ship. If you want to send him the things you'd like to let go of, you can visit http://www.vikingfuneral.me/

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• YouTube video: Saying Goodbye to the Person I Used to Be | Kid President Travel Show Ep 5

• Paper Making Kit

• Wildflower Seeds

• Instructables Paper-Making Tutorial

• Seed Paper

• Maker Education Resources

  • Makedo Cardboard Construction Kit

  • Global Cardboard Challenge

  • The Cardboard Box Book: Make Robots, Princess Castles, Cities, and More! by Roger Priddy and Sarah Powell

  • Out of the Box: 25 Cardboard Engineering Projects for Makers by Jemma Westing

  • 51 Things to Make with Cardboard Boxes (Super Crafts) by Fiona Hayes

• Write Your Name in Runes

• Tech Tip: PollEverywhere

• Kyle Scheele’s Viking Funeral

• Literary Extensions

  • The Death of Balder - A Norse Myth (PDF)

  • The Death of Balder - Audio

  • For more ancient myths see the Classic Tales from Cambridge University

KID PRESIDENT: ARE WE THERE YET | BELONGING

Many young refugees in Clarkston, Georgia attend Fugees Academy, a place for young people to learn and grow together. These young people show us just how beautiful a friendship you can build despite being from different nationalities and even speaking different languages.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• YouTube video: Teen Refugees Show Us What True Friendship Looks Like | Kid President Travel Show Ep4

• Resources for exploring the topic of refugees:

  • Teaching Resources from The UN Refugee Agency

  • Modern Human Migration from Google Earth

  • Operation Refugee Child

  • Save the Children Refugee

  • Child Refugee/Migrant

  • Kids Rights

• Explore & Create

  • Digital fairy tales

  • Google Earth

    • This is School: Explore classrooms around the world

    • This is Home: Explore homes around the world

  • Digital works of art

  • Kid President in the Classroom Facebook Group

• Connect

  • Mystery Skype

    • Activity Plans

  • ePals

  • Empatico

  • Skype Collaborations

  • Books featuring diverse characters

  • Postcard exchange

KID PRESIDENT: ARE WE THERE YET | BIRTHDAYS

Robby and Brad are headed to the Lighthouse Retreat to meet with families battling cancer. Life is fleeting and precious for all of us, so the Kid President Team thinks it's important to find a million little reasons to celebrate and enjoy time with the people you love.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• YouTube video: Kid President Team Visits Families Battling Cancer | Kid President Travel Show EP3

• Kid President in the Classroom Facebook Group

• Three Ideas for Infusing Joy in the Classroom

• List of possible Maker Materials

• Explore what it means to be a maker

• The Engineering Design Process

• Important and not-so-important holidays

• Flipgrid

• Collaborative writing tools

  • Edublogs

  • Office 360

  • Google tools

KID PRESIDENT: ARE WE THERE YET | BRIDGES

Robby and Brad travel to Selma, Alabama to meet some kids making a difference and a woman who was a freedom fighter during the Civil Rights Movement.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• YouTube video: A Message for People Who Want to Change the World | Kid President Travel Show Ep2

• Selma and A March for Freedom Photo Collection

• Smithsonian Learning Lab

• See-Think-Wonder thinking protocol

• Digital Gallery Walk Tools:

  • Wakelet

  • Padlet

• The Hope Dealers

• Resources for digitally collecting ideas:

  • Answer Garden

  • Tagxedo

  • Wordle

• Futures Thinking Playbook

• Teach the Future

• Publishing Options

  • iMovie

  • DoInk

  • TouchCast

  • Flipgrid

  • Edublogs

• Historical Extensions

  • Information about the importance of Selma, Alabama in the fight for Civil Rights (Including a “Then and Now” sliding photo)

  • Information about the Edmund Pettus Bridge

  • 360° Video of Edmund Pettus Bridge

  • Use Google Street View to virtually walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge

  • Timeline of Selma to Montgomery March

  • Rep. John Lewis Reflecting on his Experience Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge (Video intended for older students)

BRAD STORY: A STORY ABOUT A BIRD

The lesson plan offers activities to help students appreciate their own talents as well those of their classmates. By cooperating with each other they will see how much they can accomplish together.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• A Story About a Bird video

• Paper puzzle piece templates

• Mind-mapping tools:

  • Coggle

  • Answer Garden

• Real World Examples*:

  • Brielle's Biology Lesson

  • Lego League Gramma-Jamma Invention

  • The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes

  • Alex’s Lemonade Stand

  • Katie's Krops

  • Ryan's Well Foundation

  • Three of the World's Most Talented Kids

• Curating online content:

  • Blendspace

  • Padlet

• 30 Books About Being Different and Being Yourself

• Google Doc

• Flipgrid

• TouchCast

• Suggested Technology Tools:

  • Microsoft Word template for cards and letters

  • Tinkercad/3D Printer

  • Animoto for digital photo book

  • Earsketch for composing music

  • Adobe Spark for video creation

  • Weebly for website or blog

  • Haiku deck for presentations

  • Canva for graphic design

*For a full YouTube playlist of the real world example videos click here.

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