Profile Set-up
We invite you to get started using your profile on Youth Voices!
What is a Youth Voices profile?
It can be your personal, online...
locker (where you can put video, audio, images, GIFs, and text that are important to you) homeroom (where...
Making Your Mark
We invite you to introduce yourself to others on Youth Voices while we introduce you to a few of the multimodal, varied ways of communicating on the site.
We are asking you to:
We welcome you to the Youth Voices community -- where nobody...
The Turning Point Narrative
We want to give you a chance to reflect on and make sense of you lived experience of turning points.
What is a Turning Point Narrative?
We invite you to write a narrative essay describing a turning point in your life when you learned something...
[1 of 4] Study the genre of The Turning Point Narrative by commenting on model texts. (an activity in The Turning Point Narrative Playlist)
[1 of 4] Study the genre of The Turning Point Narrative by commenting on model texts.
In the collection on NowComment you will find a variety of texts to read and comment on to serve as models for you in writing your own Turning Point Narrative....
[2 of 4] Create a list of memories of turning points in your life. Use AI to see how to get started. Write about one of your memories.
[2 of 4] Create a list of memories of turning points in your life. Use AI to see how to get started. Write about one of your memories.
You will get better at moving from a brainstormed list to a first draft of a narrative.
We invite you to...
The Profile
Description of a Profile Essay
Your profile essay will be an intensive study of a person working toward positive social change related to an issue that matters deeply to you. You will examine this person's practices as an activist and changemaker...
Algorithms
We invite you to consider, describe, share, and discuss the algorithmic thinking processes you go through when you program in Scratch.
What are algorithms?
They are all around us.
The recipe for baking a cake A mac & cheese recipe...
Describe a Student: STEM Field Notes
We invite you to describe a student -- an actual one or one you create -- who you might encounter in a future class.
We are asking you to:
Learn more about Pat Carini’s, The Descriptive Review of a Child Protocol , by making personal connections w...
Unlocking Math Skills and Concepts With Escape Rooms
What's a mathematical dilemma?
It can be ...
a real-world problem to be solved a silly situation that needs some reasoning a predicament that requires flexible thinking
a multi-step puzzle where attention to detail is key a conundrum...