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Grades:
K
1
2
Students will be exposed to literature that illustrates how responsible citizens treat others and work toward resolving conflicts within the boundaries of democratic procedures...
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Unit: How About a Hand?
Unit: Challenging Social Boundaries
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will describe how Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat was a continuation of long-standing acts of protest against forced segregation in public spaces in the South. They will explain how her action, which ushered change in public transportation, was heroic.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students participate in a role-play of fair and unfair decision-making. They identify behaviors that promote and create barriers to making decisions. After a read-aloud, students compare the lesson in the text to real-life situations.
Unit: Herstory in History
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners will explain that bullying violates a persons core democratic values. Students will take action on the issue of bullying by taking surveys of various groups and sharing the results and their possible solutions with others.
Unit: Grow Involved 9-12
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students read To Kill a Mockingbird and discuss examples of violence. They promote the idea of doing for others by organizing a rally for nonviolence. ...
Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners explore the definition of responsibility as "following tasks to completion." They analyze a scenario for the problem, consequences, and possible solutions. Learners connect completing tasks with maintaining trust....
Unit: Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior - His Life, His Legacy
Grades:
K
1
2
In this lesson, the students experience unequal treatment first hand and discuss fairness. Children reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream. Through this activity, the students personalize a way to act out his dream.
Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Lesson Three provides an example of someone who acted with integrity, Patrick Henry.
Unit: Worthless to Priceless: It's all Relative
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of this lesson is to plan and carry out a service-learning project in which students give something that is needed or wanted by someone else without any expectation of receiving something in return. They use the South Asian Indian folktale "The Drum" as a model.
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Unit: Upon the Clouds of Equality (1st Grade)
Grades:
K
1
2
The students experience a simulation demonstrating unequal treatment and discuss justice and fairness. Students will reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of equality and his actions as a philanthropist.