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Centervention

• Centervention is a website curated to help students learn to manage their emotions and to increase their social skills. These games gather data so that teachers can monitor their progress and include supplemental lessons to reinforce certain topics. Teachers can meet students where they are and help them focus on building specific social skills.

• https://www.centervention.com/

• I believe this website can be attached to my district's monthly characteristics. This month we are learning about respect and how to respect ourselves, others, and our bodies. This website has interactive games to take students through situations where someone may feel disrespected. It teaches students how to address this discomfort and how to apologize if you ever make someone uncomfortable. I will use this in a partner situation, having students act out the game with their partner and try the correct way and the wrong way and record their reactions to both on a piece of paper.

Games for Change

• Games for Change is a curated selection of social impact games that allow students to engage and work through social situations while playing fun and interactive games. Students can work through bullying, joy and sorrow, as well as stepping into another child's shoes and fighting racism in their everyday lives.

https://www.gamesforchange.org/

• I think I could use this website, especially the game 1000 cut journey during Black History month. My school is mainly white and Hispanic students so Black History month is a skipped over topic in my district. This will allow my students to showcase their comprehension of how someone else lives their life and the battles that they face. This will embody civic engagement by teaching students to truly grasp what members of different races must go through. I believe it will have a positive impact on my students to teach them diversity.

Gapminder

• Gapminder is a great resource that takes information from all news sources, from all political or socio-economical sides and fact-checks the information. Students can engage with topics such as plastic in the oceans or import taxes and their uses in America.

• https://www.gapminder.org/

• I would use this as a basis for daily topic reading assignment. Every morning my students have a short 3 paragraph article to read about a news topic. I do my best to choose un-biased or non-political topics. This can be a resource for me to have students write about social issues in their daily lives that they may not be seeing and how they think they could solve these problems.

ICivics

• iCivics is a great website that allows students to take charge and solve the nation's problems the way they see fit. It allows them to have control and see how each approach to a situation can turn out. It features may games about civil rights and teaches students to care about how each of their actions affects one another.

• https://www.icivics.org/

• I would use this as a fun, finished work competition. Students will be given this as a free time activity. It engages the class in learning but having fun whilst doing it. The friendly competition would finish when someone successfully runs the nation for 10 years (game-time). This will take them quite a while and their game progress can be saved so they can complete this over a couple of days. It allows students to take the time to think about their choices and the effect it has on others.

One Globe Kids

• OGK is an award-winning online library that takes stories from all over the world and shares them with students. It connects students from all over the world with different cultures and struggles that we may not realize.

• https://oneglobekids.org/

• I plan to use this in my classroom as a research-based project. I plan to have each student choose a country/culture to learn about using OGK as their base. They will create a Prezi of information they have gathered about that country's culture, stories, people, and resources. This will help students connect with another culture other than their own here in Washington. This will allow for cultural diversity and civic engagement through learning and research.