Breakfast Club Blog

Curriculum & Enrichment



Sort By: NameDate postedDate last modified

Afterschool Alliance has created a Youth Voice Toolkit to support programs and organizations in the initial stages of their youth voice development journey. Resources include the Spectrum of Youth Voice, a framework developed by Dr. Roger Hart of the Children’s Environments Research Group in partnership with Jack Nowicki, LCSW, of TNOYS.

Restorative Justice Resource Guide

The Restorative Justice Collaborative of Utah has created a Restorative Justice Resource Guide for organizations to utilize while advancing restorative practices. The resource guide, also available as a PDF, offers books, theories, articles, videos, and other resources to support practitioners who engage in RJ.

Educational Resources for the 2025 Partial Solar Eclipse

The National Environmental Educational Foundation (NEEF) has created educational resources for the 2025 partial solar eclipse. The resources comply with Next Generation Science Standards and create opportunities to support educators, caregivers, and families with younger children.

Teaching for Change: Civil Rights Teaching

To ensure that voices are amplified and that the stories of everyday people are empowered amidst opposition, Teaching for Change has created the Civil Rights Teaching website. The website offers lessons, handouts, resources, and news to implement in classroom teaching to engage students in their own knowledge and community activism. Teaching for Change is an active partner in the Freedom Movement Educational Initiative.

Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project

Sponsored by North Carolina State University, the Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project (vMLK) developed as a pilot project. The vMLK team in conjunction with faculty at Southease Raleigh Magnet High School developed a website with resources intended to offer learning experiences and no-cost professional development opportunities for North Carolina teachers and students grades 8-12.

EDSITEment: Culture of a Tribal Nation

EDSITEment offers resources for K-5 to discuss art, culture, history, and legacy of the Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, Chippewa tribal nations. Intended to support student knowledge in diverse people groups, this resource encourages differentiated and accurate understanding of those living throughout lands referred to as North and South America. Additional links are provided on the resource site to extend learning as well as guiding questions.

Implementing a New Voter-Approved Children’s Fund

Children’s Funding Project offers communities who are implementing new voter-approved funding a toolkit for designing, operating, and evaluating programs. From creating a timeline to telling your programmatic-outcome story, this toolkit provides step-by-step guidance.

Winter STEM Activities for Kids

Anytime can be the right time to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). Explore our favorite winter-themed STEM experiments, engineering challenges, and demonstrations with these fun hands-on STEM activities from Science Buddies!

Medal of Honor Character Development Program

Sponsored by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, this free resource is available to educators of elementary and secondary classrooms. Activities include individual and group-oriented worksheets, resources, webinars, and historical collections.

Waste Hero: Reduce to Zero

Waste Hero Education provides free lesson plans to achieve its aim of educating 1 million people by 2030 on zero waste, recycling, and the circular economy.  Resources are available to empower children K-12 with the skills and knowledge to care for the planet.

Indigenous Representation: Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Resources

In celebration and honor of Native Heritage Month, the National Educational Association (NEA) offers year-round resources to share the narrative of Indigenous People groups.

Resources include lesson plan units for children grades Kindergarten through 12 that focus on history, accurate representation, Thanksgiving lesson plans from the Native American perspective, background resources, printables/posters, videos, and recommended readings. The curated collection is in partnership with organizations centered in social justice and advocacy.

NEA Note: “Educators should be mindful of cultural appropriation when teaching about other cultures and understand that Native American students in class may experience lessons differently than non-Native students.”

IllumiNative: Native Education and Indigenous People Narrative Resources

A Native woman-led racial and social justice organization, IllumiNative has created free resources (in partnership with the National Indian Education Association and Amplifier) that increase the visibility of and challenge the negative narratives of Indigenous peoples.

Resources available include youth and adult publications centered in advocacy, awareness, and research. Lesson plans include remote learning opportunities that explore the work of Indigenous leaders and changemakers in digital tool formats for grades PreKindergarten through 8th grades.