What we offer
Operation250 has both an online and an offline presence. Our organization seeks to educate about online safety and hate in an engaging and critical way for children, parents, and teachers. The online platform exists to offer our materials to all interested individuals who may not have the ability to work directly with our team. But, most of our work is done offline in local classrooms, we work out of the greater Boston area and currently have the ability to travel around the northeast region of the United States.
Op250 offers a series of program options for local educators to choose from. Some of these programs combine components of the online educational platform, but many facets of these programs are only available to the school districts with whom we are partnered.
Our programs are based on interactive and engaging activities that insight critical thinking within children around the topics of online safety, hate, and extremism.
If you are interested in working with the Op250 team, please reach out to us via our Contact page.
If you would like more specific information on the educational methods or the goals and aims of the organization, please see our about section.
Below is a list of program options frequently provided by the team:
1. Student Workshops
This is an Op250 travelling program. The student workshops are 3-step, 2-3 hour, interactive lessons and activities focused on anti-hate, online behavior, and critical problem solving. The students receive an original lesson on hate and extremism, an original lesson on online safety and online decision-making, and then partake in a problem solving activity. The problem solving activity offers students the opportunity to address the problem discussed throughout the workshop in their own community.
2. Student Lecture Series
For schools who might not have the time for an entire workshop, or prefer to reach a larger crop of students all at once, we offer our lecture series. These are presentations that are originally built and delivered by an Op250 member to your students. These are developed to be age appropriate and designed for your school. They typically last upwards of an hour.
3. Teacher Training & Consultation
We understand that we cannot be the only ones to run in-class events, which is why we find the teacher training offering to be so important. We are available to consult on your curriculum, develop new materials, or train the methods Op250 uses. This can be an entirely remote collaboration of exchanging information and materials, or we can develop an in-person workshop with a group of teachers.
Online Educational Resources Offered by Operation250:
1. Lesson Plans
Operation250 has designed and developed lessons for teachers to use and implement into their classrooms. Visit our Operation250 Lesson Plan Page to download and implement one of our lessons into your classroom today!
2. Op250 Readings
Op250 readings are 5-7 paged documents that provide information in a linear, historically relevant, and modernly contextual manner. The Readings cover a series of topics related to terrorism, radicalization, and online safety. The primary objective of these documents is to ensure educators are equipped with factual, relevant, and tailored information about these specific topics so they may implement and guide productive in class conversations. Educators who are piloting our Readings often print them out for students to be read in class before discussion.
3. Case Studies
As a subsidiary to our lesson plans, we have designed case studies for lessons and activities. These case studies are based on true events and have been developed to fit into certain age groups and lessons to best achieve particular learning objectives.