KID CONGRESS EPISODE 9: The Power of Listening

Kid Congress tells us about all the beautiful things that can come from listening to others.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 9: The Big Hearing

• Monkey Business Illusion Video

• Good News Resources:

  • Good News Network

  • Happy News

  • Sunny Skyz

  • Daily Good

  • HuffPost Good News

  • HuffPost HooplaHa: Only Good News

  • HuffPost Community Kindness

  • MSN Good News

• Collaborative Writing Tools:

  • Google Slides

  • Microsoft Word

• Publication Tools:

  • Sway

  • Office 365

  • Weebly for Education

  • Canva

  • Google Slides

  • Make My Newspaper

• Skype

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 8: Policy for the People

The Global Happiness Meter in the Kid Congress headquarters is LOW! But luckily, Zoie is here to help make the world happier with her Policy for People.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 8: Policy for the People

• Collaborative Writing Tools:

  • Padlet

  • Wakelet

  • Google Docs

  • Microsoft Word

• Digital Citizenship:

  • Relationships and Communication

  • Cyberbullying, Digital Drama and Hate Speech

  • K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 7: Animals Know What's Up

Here's 10 things us humans can learn from animals. Which is your favorite?

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 7: Animals Know What’s Up

• Tools to generate lists:

  • Padlet

  • Wakelet

  • Flipgrid

  • Google Docs

  • Microsoft Word

• Safe Search Engines:

  • Google Safe Search

  • Kiddle

  • KidRex

• 50 Mini Lessons for Research

• Create a Cartoon:

  • Powtoon

  • Stop Motion

• Tweet About It:

  • Fake Twitter Generator

• Speak It Out:

  •  Anchor.Fm

  • Vocaroo

  • Flipgrid

• What Do You Meme?

  • Adobe Spark Post

  • Google Drawing

• Title It:

  • Canva

  • Piktochart

• Write a Story:

  • Storyboard That

  • Book Creator

• Act It Out:

  • Charades

  • Google Form

  • Microsoft Forms

• Top Facts List:

  • Touchcast

  • DoInk

  • iMovie

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 6: 10 AWESOME THINGS WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW

PSA: Things don't have to stay the way they are! YOU can make a difference!

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 6: 10 Awesome Things We Can Do Right Now

• Tools to Share Feelings:

  • Flipgrid

  • Wordle

  • Tagxedo

• Maker Mindset

• Kid President Facebook Community

• K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum

• Flipgrid

• Blog Tools

  • EduBlogs

  • KidBlog

  • Weebly

  • Seesaw

• Local School Challenge

  • Dash Robot

  • Sphero

  • The Four C’s

• Give Your Time Challenge:

  • No Sew T-shirt Bag

• Pizza!! (Party for Others):

  • Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

  • Caine’s Arcade

  • Canary Cutter

  • The Four C’s

• Compliments:

  • Kindness Bookmarks

  • Seesaw

  • Flipgrid

• Gratitude:

  • Plastic Bag Jump Rope

  • Jump Rope Games

  • Jump Rope for Heart

• Make Supplies to Give to Those In Need:

  • Suggested Donation List

  • No Sew Scarves

  • Blankets

• Ribbon Ceremony:

  • Recycled Braided Dog Toys

• Silence:

  • DIY Sensory Bottles

• Listen:

  • Students Rebuild

• Write a Song for Someone and Perform It:

  • Make recycled instruments

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 5: WORDS MATTER

Leyla is here to show you how one letter can change the course of history.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 5: Words Matter

• Kid President in the Classroom Facebook Community

• 15 Ways to Bring More Positive Language into Your Classroom and School

• Ideas for writing letters:

  • Operation Gratitude project

  • Love for the Elderly project

  • Cards for Hospitalized Kids project

• Postcard Exchange Project

• ePals Pen Pals

• PenPals schools

• Getting Started with Global Connections

• KSU iTeach

• Let’s TACO ‘Bout How Awesome You Are printable

• Digital Word Collection tools:

  • Answer Garden

  • ABCya Word Clouds

  • Taxedo

  • Wordle

• K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum

• Flipgrid

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 4: LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Jackson has a thing or two to say about being a good neighbor.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 4: Love Your Neighborhood

• Genius Hour

• Google Forms

• Microsoft Forms

• Flipgrid

• Kid President in the Classroom Facebook Community

• Litterati App

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 3: THE YOUNG ARE AT THE GATES

The young are at the gates! It's time for us to listen to them!

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 3: The Young Are At the Gates

• Collaborative Writing Tools:

  • Wakelet

  • Google Docs

  • Microsoft Class Notebook

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 2: WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER

Let's celebrate of all the good we can do together...because together...WE'RE LOUDER!

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 2: What We Can Do Together

• A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat from Google Arts and Culture website

• Pixel Art Options:

  • Put colorful sticky notes on the walls (Examples)

  • Color squares in graph paper (Printable graph paper)

  • Use fuse beads

  • Create digital pixel art using Pixel Art Maker or ABCya Pixel Maker

  • Create pixel art in Excel or Google Sheets

  • Use Mosaically website to create art that can be shared digitally (It is free to create and share links to zoomable photo mosaics online but there is a fee to print completed mosaics)

  • Use pieces of painted paper/cardboard or scraps of construction paper (Example)

• Tools for digitally sharing pixel art:

  • Wakelet

  • Flipgrid

• Pixel-based toys:

  • Bloxels

  • Minecraft

  • Pixel art using LEGOs

KID CONGRESS EPISODE 1: THERE ARE KIDS

The world might seem dark, but it’s important to remember that there is hope. There are kids!

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• KID CONGRESS Episode 1: There are Kids

• Options for Research

  • Newsela Text Set: There are Kids

  • InspireMyKids.com

  • Brightly’s List of 8 Books About Real-Life Kids Who Changed the World

  • Kid-Safe Search Engines:

    • Kiddle

    • Google Safe Search

    • KidRex

• Artistic Representation of a selected trait examples:

  • Listen

  • Joy

  • Love

  • Hope

• Word Cloud Generator:

  • Answer Garden

  • Word Clouds

  • Wordle

• Flipgrid

• How To Change The World (a work in progress) | Kid President

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: DISNEY CHANNEL PROMO

Brad tries again, and again, and again. Eventually, through persistence and a variety of strategies, he succeeds. Failure can be a step forward, if we keep trying to overcome the obstacles standing in our way and enlist the help of others.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• Brad's Disney Channel Promo

• Tools for engaging in real time:

  • Padlet

  • Poll Everywhere

• The Marshmallow Challenge:

  • Marshmallow Challenge website

  • Marshmallow Challenge TED Talk

  • Marshmallow Challenge in Elementary School

• Choice Board

• Google Doc for setting up a collaborative planning space

• Activities for Beginning Makers:

  • How to make a Drawing Robot

  • Make a low-tech cardboard TV

  • Create a Marshmallow Toothpick Structure

• Activities for More Advanced Makers:

  • Light Drawing

  • How to Make a Real Magic Wand

  • How to make a movie

• Resources for exploring maker projects:

  • Instructables: How to Make Anything

  • Make: Find a Project

  • DIY.org

  • PBS Design Squad

  • Maker Camp - Free Online Maker Camp

• Picture Books:

  • Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

  • Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty

  • The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires

  • Today I will Fly! by Mo Willems

  • The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

  • Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  • Shhh! We have a plan by Chris Haughton

  • It’s Okay to Make Mistakes by Todd Parr

  • On a Beam of Light by Jennifer Berne

  • Violet the Pilot by Steve Breen

  • Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

• Extension Resources for Failing Forward

  • Freedom to Fail Forward

  • Controlled Failure: Helping Kids Navigate Back to Success

  • Failing Forward: 21 Ideas To Help Students Keep Their Momentum

  • Making Friends With Failure

  • TED-Ed Talk: 3 Tips to Boost Your Confidence

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 YEAR OF DATES

Busy, busy, busy. Even students find themselves with too much to do and too little time. In this lesson they will learn how to priortize people and events.

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• A Year of Dates

• Prioritizing Time Handout

• 80+ Self-Care Ideas

• Google Sheets

• Canva

• Google Calendar

• Teachers’ Mental Health Declining Amid Job Stress

BRAD STORY: THIS IS A JOYFUL REBELLION

Students are encouraged to make the world a better place by starting their own Joyful Rebellion. Rather than an angry face and a raised fist, their weapons will be a smile and a high five. Small changes can make a big difference!

Direct Links to Content in Lesson Plan

• This is a Joyful Rebellion!

• Worksheets:

  • Joy Rebel Hall of Fame

  • “Very Important Person” Web

• Real World Examples*:

  • Rosa Parks

  • Malala Yousafzai

  • Katherine Johnson

  • Nelson Mandela

  • J.K. Rowling

  • Bill Gates

• Curating online content

  • Padlet

  • Blendspace

• Weebly for creating a digital Hall of Fame

• Mind-mapping tools:

  • Coggle

  • Popplet

• Google Doc for setting up a collaborative planning space

• Flipgrid for collecting student reflection videos

• Suggested Extensions:

  • www.dosomething.org

  • www.bystanderrevolution.org

  • www.stompoutbullying.org

*For a full YouTube playlist of the real world example videos (minus the Rosa Parks video, which is on PBS), click here.

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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