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 BALLOON'S STORY

A red balloon learns to face his fears about the future and enjoy the present. Students will participate in discussions and activities to help them cope with their own insecurities and fears. They will see that, like the red balloon, they are meant to fly!

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• A Balloon's Story

• Balloon Story Worksheet

• Choice Board

• Google Doc

• Really Big Bubble Maker

• iMovie

• Resources for creating digital books:

  • BookCreator

  • Storyjumper

  • My Story Book Creator

BRAD STORY: A PEP TALK ABOUT A PEP TALK

Big is not always better! Big events are made up of small moments. Students will see how they can have and show hope, love, and joy through small actions. It only takes a moment to have a momentous effect.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• A Pep Talk about a Pep Talk

• AnswerGarden

• Padlet

• Writing Small Moment Stories

• Google Docs

• 5 Picture Books with a Focus on Compassion and Hope

• Suggested Picture Books for Small Moment Writing:

  • A Moment in Time by Jennifer Butenas

  • Salt Hands by Jane Chelsea Aragon

  • Every Friday by Dan Yaccarino

  • Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee

  • Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

  • Fire Flies by Julie Brinckloe

  • Red Rubber Boot Day by Mary Lyn Ray