When Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was ten years old, she composed and illustrated a poem called "Sea Joy." In this activity, students analyze the sensory imagery in the poem and then write a poem about a place that is familiar to them.

Should the federal government spend more money to control or reduce air, water, and land pollution? In this lesson, high school students debate our nation’s priorities by establishing their own “simulated” federal budgets. After analyzing the proposed FY 2022 discretionary budget, students will be asked to design a FY 2023 budget with their classmates.

Baylor Fox-Kemper, professor of earth, environmental, and planetary sciences at Brown University; Courtney Humphries, journalist and author; Paul Kirshen, professor of climate adaptation at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Sanjay Seth, climate resilience program manager for the City of Boston; and the Rev. Vernon K. Walker, senior program manager at Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW), explore sea level rise and its implications for coastal areas, including cities like Boston, with Barbara Moran, correspondent on WBUR’s environmental team.

Through hip hop dance, children learn about nature with fun animal facts and follow along to get their own bodies moving in dances that emulate animal movements in this energetic video program for the whole family.

Teach students about civic engagement and democracy with this hands-on activity. Help them identify a cause they care about at the local, national, or global level. They can design, make and decorate a poster to support their chosen cause. Have students share their posters with each other in the classroom or digitally to learn more about their classmates' concerns and the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Every year the Kennedy Library recognizes up to 100 middle school students from across Massachusetts with the John F. Kennedy Make a Difference Award for the impact they have made in their communities and beyond through service projects.

Our 2022 program, "America's Silenced Histories," will consider our country’s untold stories, examining the ways narratives of America's past have been silenced, misrepresented, and underrepresented in the scholarship, in archives, and in public memory.

The exhibition First Children: Caroline and John Jr. in the Kennedy White House looks at the public’s fascination with the president’s progeny, a fascination fed by the media. With a virtual tour led by Kennedy Library curator Janice Hodson, your students can explore the White House School, gifts from heads of state, and life in the Executive Mansion for the Kennedy children.

Celebrate Earth Day by investigating the history of US National Parks and Seashores with your students. Explore President Kennedy's remarks on the establishment of Cape Cod National Seashore.

In this activity, high school students analyze photographs, identify the environmental issues facing the United States in the early 1970s, and speculate about what legislation Congress would have passed and regulations the EPA would have enforced based on the state of the environment as documented in the photos.