Cocoon engages students to express their thoughts and feelings about the pandemic and consider how it has impacted their lives. In this 12-minute film, students ages 4-17 reflect on their experiences in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portland, Oregon. They consider changes to school, family, and personal lives, as well as their fears, regrets, favorite moments, and hopes for the future. Accompanying lesson plans for elementary (grades 3-5), middle, and high school students include activities for discussion and reflection, plus links to connect the film to current events. Readers should scroll to the Choose a Grade Level section to view the three lesson plans, each available in English and Spanish. Cocoon is part of the Global Oneness Project, which was previously featured in the 11-06-2015 issue of the Scout Report. The project highlights multimedia storytelling from multicultural perspectives with accompanying lesson plans. The Global Oneness Project is an initiative of the Kalliopeia Foundation.

The datasets available here were designed to support the activities, worksheets, assessment, and articles in the Exploring Data website (above).Each data set is identified by topic and available in three formats: Excel 4.0, NCSS Jr. 6.0, and Tab Delimited. Some examples of datasets include: US Draft Lotteries, AIDS/HIV, Air Pollution, Anscombe's Dataset, Bradmanesque, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Challenger, Cloud Seeding, Codeine Concentration, Density of the Earth, Density of Nitrogen, Diamond Rings, Galileo's Experiments, Global Temperature, Metric Estimates, Oil Production, Old Faithful, Olympic Gold, Oscar Winners, Pottery, Smoking and Cancer, Speed of Light, and World Population.