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How’s the Weather Inside and Outside?
January 7, 2021
Our emotions and feelings are like the weather, ever-changing and dependent on many causes and conditions. This unit helps students understand their emotions and the impermanent nature of phenomena, while teaching coping skills and strategies, and ultimately cultivating self-awareness, compassion, and improved focus.
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Family Sundays: Measure Me
October 26, 2021
From the Rubin Museum: An art project aimed at measuring your own existence and reflecting on how you define yourself
Family Sundays: Mandala Lab
October 26, 2021
From the Rubin Museum: An engaging art project in mandala making with the aim of exploring our emotions
Art-Making: Hybrid Animals
October 20, 2021
From the Rubin Museum: An art project aimed at exploring hybrid creatures and deities.
Boundary Walk
March 9, 2021
From Middle Way School a lesson from the first thematic unit of the year, Taking Your Seat, students walk the boundary of the campus.
How’s the Weather Inside and Outside?
January 7, 2021
Our emotions and feelings are like the weather, ever-changing and dependent on many causes and conditions. This unit helps students understand their emotions and the impermanent nature of phenomena, while teaching coping skills and strategies, and ultimately cultivating self-awareness, compassion, and improved focus.
The Scent Trail Scavenger Hunt
July 16, 2020
In this lesson plan, students use their sense of smell to follow a trail and complete a puzzle. It also serves a jumping-off point for a lesson about the five senses and the amazing lives of ants.
Dragon Twirlers Craft Project
April 29, 2020
This is a fun kinetic craft project with wow factor. Using the dragon imagery, we can learn about the power of symbolism and how other cultures use the symbol of dragons.
How Is Everything Connected?
April 23, 2020
How am I connected to everything? Download a set of worksheets filled with activities, reflections, and practices to help children answer this important question.
Discovering Basic Goodness
February 26, 2020
This lessons offers students to understand and experience their basic goodness through different exercises and activities.