The OurWorlds app—winner of the 2022 SXSW EDU Launch Competition—teaches Native American history via virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificialintelligence. The app also includes geolocation features that tailor Native history to where the user is located.
The National Park Service (NPS) helps teachers use the world’s first national park to bring science, mathematics, and social studies to life. Classrooms can connect with a Yellowstone National Park ranger to learn more about geology, ecology, or cultural history, and the National Park Service mission of preservation.
The New York Times Learning Network has published a lesson on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the hope that it can both help students understand what has led to the “most significant European war in almost 80 years” and encourage them to follow along as the news develops.
Living Nations, Living Wordsis the signature project of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native person to serve in this position. With an emphasis on poetry, and on sharing and elevating the voices of living Native poets, the project consists of a story map and a poetry collection.
Students can become Feature Hunters and help NASA researchers create a machine-learning algorithm to identify surface features in photographs of Earth taken by astronauts in space.