May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the TeachRock classroom resources featured below provide structured pathways for students to explore social environments and methodology about mental health awareness. Throughout these High School lesson plans, students engage in both independent learning and collaboration in a variety of group activities. TeachRock also has an abundance of educational resources for Middle School classrooms …
While Earth Day is an important annual event to raise environmental awareness, TeachRock has resources to examine environmental issues year-round. Recently, we’ve added a new lesson to our Environmental Jukebox series – a collection of lessons where students explore the intersections of Environmental Science, Art, and activism. To create The Water Walker: Indigenous Wisdom and Water Contamination lesson, TeachRock partnered …
Over the past year, TeachRock has been updating our lessons so that they can help teachers meet the needs of a variety of learners. With this project, we are striving to make sure that our materials engage students with all types of learning profiles, interests, and readiness. So far, our lessons How a Bill Becomes a Law: Legislating the Martin …
Greetings TeachRockers! Have you checked out TeachRock’s new SEL lesson, “Bystander Intervention: Making Spaces Safer for Everyone”? It’s fantastic (IOHO) and the contributing author is Baltimore-based creative, Shawna Potter. In this latest TeachRock newsletter, Shawna shares about the experiences that led her to develop programming and write a book that would address harassment in public spaces. Now, she’s brought that …
Introducing the coolest class ever! TeachRock’s Elective Course “An American History of Rock and Soul” Did you know that TeachRock offers a semester-long elective course? Our “An American History of Rock and Soul” course is a complete curriculum that can be taught as a History Elective or as a Music Course. “Ever since I became a teacher I always thought …
What I love about Stevie Van Zandt and the whole TeachRock staff is our shared deep-rooted feeling that every single kid is worthy of our love, deserves a chance to be heard, to thrive, and to grow up and into a meaningful, fulfilling life. We can only play a small part in that project, but I’m sure glad we get …
STEVIE VAN ZANDT VISITS HORACE GREELEY SCHOOL IS10 QUEENS NY TO SPEAK WITH 8th GRADE STUDENTS STUDYING TEACHROCK US HISTORY COURSE UNIT PLAN ABOUT SUN CITY/ ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID (February 1, 2024) Multi-hyphenate legend Stevie Van Zandt visits a class at Horace Greely School (Intermediate School 010) that has been studying the Sun City/Artists United Against Apartheid unit plan. The visit …
Waves of History: The Women’s Rights Movement (IMAGE) Time travel with TeachRock this Women’s History Month and explore the first, second, and third waves of the Women’s Rights Movement. These illuminating resources from our CNN Soundtracks: Songs that Defined History lesson collection are a standards-aligned and media-rich expedition spanning nearly 150 years of U.S. history. Click the links above and …
This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Rumble in the Jungle: the historic boxing match between heavyweights George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Held in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the Foreman-Ali bout is considered one of the greatest sporting events in history. With an estimated one billion television viewers around the world, it was also …
Dear TeachRock Educators and Supporters, Did you know that there are currently billions of dollars in unspent federal funds available to schools across the country? Federal ESSER III funds provide $190 billion to states, districts, and schools and have been set aside to support student learning loss and student wellness related to the pandemic. A recent report shows that many …
