This activity helps young students hone their basic math skills while learning about pet overpopulation. Recommended grades: K-5Time: 60 minutes IHE Related Resources: How’d That Get on My Plate?, Mouse vs Zucchini
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What Will You Say?
At the end of your very long life, a child asks you what you did to help make the world so much better. Guide students through this visualization to help them get in touch with their power to make positive change. Recommended grades: 6 and upTime: 10-20 minutes
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Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged
A lesson on stereotypes and snap judgments Help students explore and reflect upon their snap perceptions of others and show how stereotypes can limit receptivity. Grades: 6 and upTime: 20-30 minutes Related IHE Resources: Alien in the Ethical Universe, A Moment in Your Shoes
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I Think Therefore I Act
Based on the Privilege Walk, this activity encourages students/participants to develop an awareness of the kinds of choices we make every day that impact other people, nonhuman animals, and the environment. Recommended Grades: 9 and upTime: A few class periodsRelated IHE Resources: The Solutionary Guidebook
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Wonder Walk
Participants take turns leading each other on a silent Wonder Walk to discover the natural world with their five senses. Recommended for all agesTime: 30 minutesRelated IHE Resources: Natural Value
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True Price
A lesson on the true cost of goods The true price activity helps students explore the positive and negative impacts of our product choices on themselves, other people, animals, and the earth. What is true price? The price that would cover all costs in the production process, including hidden costs, with a small profit margin…
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Trash Investigators
A lesson on waste What’s in our trash that doesn’t need to be there? Participants investigate a trash source and analyze which items can be removed from the waste stream. Grades: 4 and upTime: 30 minutes Related IHE Resources: Gulf of Mexico Solutionary Unit, True Price, Pretty Mindful
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Power Chat
This activity can serve as a good icebreaker to allow fellow advocates to know each other better and to focus on important issues, or it can serve as an introduction for exploring what each (and all) of us can do for positive social change.
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Solutionary Guidebook – Mandarin
We are excited to offer you a free, digital Solutionary Guidebook to help your students and children build solutionary practices. Our guidebook offers a rationale and step-by-step process for educating people to be solutionaries. It also offers case studies covering elementary through higher education along with many resources. The guidebook will help you guide young people to:
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Student solutionaries in Hawaii: An Interview with Ryan Smith
Ryan Smith, a high school English teacher at Maryknoll School in Hawaii, attended my 2017 keynote presentation at the Schools of the Future conference in Honolulu. Inspired to educate his students to be solutionaries, he took our solutionary professional development course, collaborated with his grade level team, and brought solutionary learning to all of the…
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