Learning to find inspiration and understanding what you like and why you like it is important for kids to understand more about who they are and the culture in which they live. The Anything Goes Project allows kids to explore identity and culture through art that they create and look at. Click here to visit the Anything Goes Project.

Curriculum Connections

NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards, CNAEA Arts standards and NCHS History standards

Downloads

• Coming soon! An activity to accompany the Anything Goes Project: Learning About Self and Culture Through Art

It can be easy for kids to get wrapped up in antagonism against one another. Project SOS lets kids help one another instead; giving each other advice on the problems they need help getting solved. Click here to visit the SOS Project.

Curriculum Connections

NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards and the US Department of Health and Human Services Anti-Bullying Initiative

Downloads

• An activity to accompany Project SOS: Learning Compassion Through Writing
• An activity to accompany Project SOS: Learning Compassion Through Research

We want to hear kids' opinions and ideas about KidzEra--we'd like to know what they want from THEIR media! The Talk Back Project encourages kids to use their voices to create change and keeps them involved in the process of creative education all year round. Click here to visit the Talk Back Project.

Curriculum Connections

NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards and the US Department of Health and Human Services Anti-Bullying Initiative.

Downloads

• An activity to accompany Project Talk Back: Learning Through Creating Change

Pure Facts! Pure Fun! Pure Math! Statistics and math…snooze. Popular culture?! AWESOME!!!

Marry the awesome to the math with Project Zeitgeist—the place where statistics and analysis meet Britney and Bieber. Project Zeitgeist gives kids the opportunity to collect data about the world around them, apply math to the things that interest them and actively participate in popular culture by predicting the next big trends. Click here to visit the Zeitgeist Project.

Curriculum Connections

NCTM Mathematics standards, NCHS History standards, NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards and ISTE Technology standards

Downloads

• An activity to accompany the Zeitgeist Project: Learning Statistics & Math Through Pop Culture

Studies show that kids who can think more abstractly remember and apply lessons more often. Click-a-Pic is an ongoing KidzEra Project designed to utilize kids’ natural enthusiasm for art, photography and technology to challenge them to think more abstractly. Click here to visit the Click-a-Pic Project.

Curriculum Connections

CNAEA Arts standards, NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards and ISTE Technology standards

Downloads

• Download an activity to accompany the Click-a-Pic Project: Learning Abstraction (& Vocabulary!) Through Art
• KidzEra Photo Tips
• Constructive Conversations About Art: Learning To See
• The Artist’s Statement: Understanding Creativity Through Writing

From open thinking to visual learning to connecting both sides of the brain, art has tremendous value as an applied educational tool, and simply as its own subject. KidzEra believes in the power of art and highlights exceptional artists in the Top Artist Project. Click here to visit the Top Artist Project.

Curriculum Connections

NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards, ISTE Technology standards and CNAEA Arts standards

Downloads

• An activity to accompany the Top Artist Project: Developing Creativity Through Art & Critique
• An activity to accompany March's art: Developing Critical Thinking Skills By Critiquing Art
• Constructive Conversations About Art: Learning To See
• The Artist’s Statement: Understanding Creativity Through Writing

The ChangeOlogy Project is an interdisciplinary approach to the science of change. Change often involves controversy, and studies have shown that students who debate controversial issues in school are more likely to be informed, active citizens. Science gives us the tools to be empowered by change—tools that can help bring about positive understanding and growth. The ChangeOlogy Project brings creativity, change and science together in an empowering way—have your students become ChangeOlogists today!

Curriculum Connections

NAS Science standards, NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards, CNAEA Arts standards, NGS Geography standards and ISTE Technology standards

Downloads

• Download an activity to accompany April's articles: Learning Science Through Writing
• Download an activity to accompany March’s article: Learning Science Through Imagination
• Download an activity to accompany February’s article: Learning Science Through Writing

Pictures and words go together like peanut butter and chocolate—the presence of one just makes the other more delicious! Add a dash of funny and you have yourself Comic Corner, an ongoing KidzEra project that packs a small but high-calorie tickle to your funny bone with illustrated set-ups and punchlines. Humor is a valuable skill to cultivate, in art, writing, school and in life—engage your students in hilarity for writing practice they’ll never forget!

Curriculum Connections

CNAEA Arts standards, NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards and Theater Education standards

Downloads

• A short activity to accompany Comic Corner: Learning Through Humor

Writing is a place of fact and of fiction, sometimes simultaneously. Project InkSlinger is a place for kids to inspire each other to become better writers and to tell their story, or any story, successfully. Project InkSlinger contains the true stories of kids’ real lives, as well as works of collaborative fiction that reach new heights of literary imagination.

Curriculum Connections

NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards

Downloads

• An activity to accompany April's story, Apollo 13: Learning Writing Through Storytelling & Imagination
• An activity for Earth Day: Learning Writing & Appreciation Through Poetry
• An activity to accompany March’s story, Monkey Attack: Zoo Invasion: Learning Vocabulary Through Poetry & Imagination
• An activity to accompany February’s story, Young Love: Learning Through Storytelling

Sometimes civics and government can seem irrelevant and boring to kids. The Kidz Bill of Rights Project gives kids the opportunity to see and discuss how rights are important to their lives today. Students can then incorporate principles of civics and democracy to collaborate on their own Bill of Rights.

Curriculum Connections

NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards, NCTM Mathematics standards, NSCG Civics and Government standards, NCHS History standards, NGS standards for Geography and ISTE Technology standards

Downloads

• An activity to accompany February’s article and put Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad experience into perspective: Learning Civics Through Technology
• Teacher's resources to accompany the Kidz Bill of Rights Project: Kidz Bill of Rights Teachers Packet

Writing horoscopes for others focuses students on the positive outcome of hopes and dreams, and encourages them toward empathy and a more optimistic worldview. It also helps develop awareness and goal-making skills, powerful tools for making sound decisions. They might recognize some of their own hopes and dreams in their writings, and will be surprised at how writing things down is often the first step in making them come true!

Curriculum Connections

NCTE/IRA English Language Arts standards, NCHS History standards, NAS Science standards and the US Department of Health and Human Services Anti-Bullying Initiative

Downloads

• An activity to accompany MadStrology: The MadStrology Goal Guide
• An activity to accompany MadStrology: The Star Sign Personality Quiz & Wacky MadStrology MadLibs-Summer Edition
• An activity to accompany MadStrology: Learning Through Creativity