SUGGESTED RESOURCES &
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
June 6-19, 2020

FEATURED INTERESTS, RESOURCES, & COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
Resources for Talking About Race, Racism, and Racialized Violence with Kids ♦ Talking About Race ♦ Picture Books ♦ Art & Activism ♦ Poetry ♦ First Amendment ♦ Black Lives Matter ♦ Psychology ♦ Decolonization ♦ Race, Racism & Racial Identity ♦ Racial Justice ♦ Whiteness, History & Culture ♦ Teaching Guide ♦ Teaching Tolerance ♦ Center for Racial Justice in Education ♦ EmbraceRace ♦ Facing History ♦ NAACP Berkshires ♦ Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis ♦ Undoing Racism Organizing Collective ♦ Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership ♦ Abolition Network ♦ Arise for Social Justice ♦ Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust

MUSIC, ART, THEATER, DANCE STUDIES:
Native American Pottery ♦ Memory Mapping ♦ Art Studies ♦ Sense of Place ♦ Animation ♦ Film Studies ♦ Music Studies ♦ Neuroscience ♦ Chorus ♦ Symphony ♦ Classical Music ♦ Art Studies ♦ Sculpture ♦ Printmaking ♦ Theater Studies ♦ Puppet Theater ♦ Shakespeare ♦ Dance Studies ♦ World Folk Dances ♦ Contemporary Dance Studies ♦ Canadian Stepdance ♦ Rock Climbing ♦ Magic

ANIMALS & INSECTS:
Ornithology ♦ Animal Welfare ♦ Veterinarian Science ♦ Animal Behavior ♦ Animal Studies ♦ Herpetology ♦ Ichthyology ♦ Frogs ♦ Bird-Watching ♦ Marine Biology ♦ Oysters ♦ River Herring ♦ Merino Sheep ♦ Entomology ♦ Symbolic Relationships

STEM:
STEM ♦ NASA & SpaceX ♦ Algebra ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Science ♦ Molecular Gastronomy ♦ Astronomy ♦ Psychology ♦ Origami ♦ Chemistry

NATURE-BASED LEARNING:
Nature-Based Learning ♦ Buds & Blossoms ♦ Lilac Honey ♦ Wildflowers & Honeybees ♦ Dandelion ♦ Lily-of-the-Valley ♦ Biomimicry ♦ Natural History ♦ Galaxies ♦ Wild Edibles ♦ Phenology ♦ Acorns ♦ Frogs & Toads ♦ Entomology ♦ Fireflies ♦ Beetles ♦ Butterflies ♦ Honey ♦ Mulberry Trees ♦ Garden-Based Learning ♦ Garden Tool Lending Library ♦ Organic Gardening ♦ Environmental Impact ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Mindfulness

FOOD & FARMING:
Culinary Arts ♦ Pie Crust ♦ Scones ♦ Backyard Chickens ♦ Agriculture ♦ Baking ♦ Cake ♦ Rhubarb Food History

LOCAL RESOURCES:
Curly Willow ♦ Oak Meadow ♦ Nolumbeka Project ♦ Walking Tours ♦ Old Sturbridge Village ♦ Berkshire Museum ♦ Community Experts ♦ Small Businesses ♦ Northeast Organic Farming Association of Massachusetts ♦ Food Bank of Western MA ♦ Springfield Symphony Orchestra ♦ Emily Dickinson Museum ♦ Norman Rockwell Museum ♦ New England Air Museum ♦ Ventfort Hall ♦ Historic Northampton ♦ Naumkeag ♦ Hitchcock Center ♦ Jacob’s Pillow ♦ Smith College Museum of Art ♦ Hampden Gallery ♦ The Clark ♦ IS183 Art School of the Berkshires ♦ Springfield Museums ♦ Cooley Dickinson Hospital ♦ Mass Audubon ♦ Common Good ♦ Veterans ♦ River Valley Co-Op ♦ Bare Roots Farm ♦ Historic Deerfield ♦ nbCC Bike Collective ♦ GreenLove Eco Cleaning ♦ Greenfield Community College ♦ Berkshire Humane Society ♦ Northampton Parks & Rec ♦ Enchanted Circle Theater ♦ Connecticut Science Center ♦ Berkshire Historical Society ♦ Herman Melville’s Arrowhead ♦ Tuesday Market ♦ EmbraceRace ♦ NAACP Berkshires

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Language Arts ♦ Collage Stories ♦ Literature ♦ Children’s Literature ♦ Virtual Mapping

HISTORY:
History ♦ Native American Studies ♦ Guilded Age ♦ Gender Studies ♦ Art History ♦ Aviation History ♦ Fashion History ♦ Silk ♦ Historic Northampton ♦ Spanish Flu

COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Acts of Kindness ♦ Community Service ♦ Virtual Food Drive ♦ Homelessness ♦ Sewing Masks ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Nature’s Notebook ♦ Light Pollution

EARLY CHILDHOOD:
PreK ♦ Vision Boards ♦ Creative Free-Play ♦ Play Ideas

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