Year in Review - 2020 Resources for Teachers and Students

 

I always welcome back my students to the New Year with several activities connected to the events, stories, and trends from the previous year. The goal is to reflect and make connections to our learning experiences. Here are some resources connected to 2020 in review. 

I will continue to update this list as I discover new resources. Feel free to share any resources or ideas in the comments below. Please come back and check the updates if you are looking for something more over the next couple of weeks.

I've also posted our 2021 One Word HyperDoc Activity and our Reboot the Noggin - 2021 New Year's Welcome Back Activity this week. Educators are  welcome to copy and modify these for their own students.

Photos

• 2020 In Photos: A Year Like No Other - The New York Times
• 2020: The year in pictures - CNN.com
• 2020 in Photos: Wrapping Up the Year - The Atlantic
• Hopeful Images From 2020 - The Atlantic
• 2020 An Extraordinary Year In Photos - The Washington Post
• In 2020, AP photographers captured a world in distress - AP
• 2020: A Year in Photos - Pulitzer Center

Videos

• Year in Search - Google
• Dear COVID-19
• Best of the Year 2020 | People Are Awesome
• 2020: The Year In Review - Time
• Getting through 2020 | Ask How #WithMe
• Getty Images | 2020 Year in Review: Covid-19
• "2020: The Musical" Jimmy Fallon and Andrew Rannells Recap the Year with Broadway Songs
• 2020 Remixed ! (Year review by Cee-Roo)
  
• JibJab 2020 Year in Review: “2020, You’ve Got to Go”
• James Recaps 2020 in 3 Minutes
• GoPro: Best of 2020 - Year in Review
• YouTube Rewind 2020 (Cancelled this year.)
• Replaced with YouTube Culture and Trends
• Best of 2020 - Guinness World Records
• 2020, in 7 Minutes - Vox

Stories and Events

• 2020 in Review Fast Facts - CNN
• Year in Review 2020 Together Apart - Facebook
• Historical Events in 2020 - On This Day
• 2020 in Review - The New Yorker
• To Good-News Stories for Wildlife in 2020 - National Geographic
• Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020 - AP News

Exploring Politics and Trauma With Students

• Teaching Tolerance - When Bad Things Happen
• Caring for Students in the Wake of a Traumatic News Event
• Responding to the Insurrection at the US Capitol
• Push the Uncomfortable: Exploring Politics in the Classroom

A Bit of Everything Else

• Google Search Trends - 2020
• YouTube Culture and Trends
• The Best of 2020 - New York Times
• Spending 2020 Together on Twitter
• The 2o Trends that Will Define 2020 - Pop Sugar
• The Year on TikTok: Top 100
• 100 Best Inventions of 2020 - Time
• The Best Songs of 2020 - NPR
• 2020 Wrapped Year in Review - Spotify
• Amazon's Best Selling Books in 2020
• The 100 greatest innovations of 2020 - Popular Science
• Reddit's 2020 Year in Review

I will continue to update this post as my students and I find additional resources. If you have a resource to share, please add it to the comments below. 

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