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Making Good Decisions
Students explore the decision-making process. For this citizenship lesson, students read the book, A Hill Too High to Climb and discuss the decisions the characters had to make in the story. Students discuss how the characters' actions...
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Phil's Garden of Good
Students read "The Rainbow Fish" and discuss how the fish benefited by giving others. In this sharing lesson, students prepare plants and letters for senior citizens. Students present their letters and plants at a visit to a senior...
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Souper Philanthropists: The Drive
Students understand how good- hearted people can make a difference to others. For this philanthropy lesson, students hear the story of a child who eats in a soup kitchen (Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen) and answer questions. Students...
Anti-Defamation League
Building a Foundation for Safe and Kind Online Communication
Put a spotlight on internet safety with a lesson designed to boost positive online communication. Scholars listen to the story, Yettele's Feathers by Joan Rothenberg, and answer questions. An emoji-themed handout challenges pupils...
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Social Studies: Class Citizenship Tree
Third graders discuss citizenship and the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. On poster board, the teacher draws a tree and students draw their citizenship ideas on paper or clip pictures from magazines and glue them to the tree.
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Economics -- Third Grade
Third graders read the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax. In groups, they answer questions that are related to economics and distribution of goods. They also identify the environmental issues present in the book and perform a skit in front of the...
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Acting for the Common Goods
The first of a three-part series on bullying, this plan has class members present skits about bullying, write and sign an anti-bullying pledge, and complete a service project. For the skit, learners use information from previous lessons...
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Hurt Tracker Math
Boost emotional intelligence and division skills with a three-question learning exercise featuring two imaginary towns that record when citizens hurt, forgive, or punish one another. Using division, scholars calculate each problem...
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Community Chain
Learners examine the concept of rights and responsibilities of being citizens. In this citizenship lesson, students participate in a discussion of the responsibilities that are associated with the rights of citizenship. They make a...
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Responsibility
Second graders explore the concept of responsibility and the rights and responsibilities of citizens in their school and community. They brainstorm about the word responsibility, develop a list of how people make friends, and make a...
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Growing as a Group
Learners design a plan to help families who are in need. In this citizenship lesson, students brainstorm and implement a service project in their own community. Learners discuss how to provide food for families who are in need.
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Helping
Learners awareness is raised when they are called to look after one's surrounding and have a good attitude toward helping others and working cooperatively. Students write down times of day and how that time was wasted and time helping...
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Intergenerational Friendships
Students interview senior citizens. In this communications instructional activity, students read the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and discuss how to be sensitive to people of a different generation. Students develop interview...
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Beach Activities
In this beach activities, students cut out 24 flash cards with phrases printed on them. Students read each card and decide if the activity is something good to do at the beach, or something that is not good to do there. Students sort the...
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Lonely Fish
Students read the book The Rainbow Fish. In this citizenship activity, students discuss how the characters in the story resolved conflicts. Students create a rainbow fish from foil and cotton.
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Watercolor Ways
Students investigate the concept of being part of a global community. In this global community lesson, students learning the definition of stewardship as it relates to taking care of the Earth. They listen to the lyrics of the song,...
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What is a Global Citizen?
Young scholars discover how to become a good citizen and to make a positive difference in our world. In this social studies lesson plan, learners put a list of 9 social and environmental responsibilities in order of importance. Groups...
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
Benjamin and the Way to A Good Life
Young scholars explore American history by reading biographical text in class. In this Benjamin Franklin lesson, students research the famous inventor by reading assigned text and answering reading comprehension questions afterwards....
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Crazy Laws: There Must Have Been a Good Reason?
Students study the reasons for the passage of some "crazy" laws and illustrate one of them. They examine how current laws may seem outdated in 50 years.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Desalination: Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water
How does San Francisco supply its citizens with enough water, even during a drought? Learn about reservoirs and why desalination could be a good solution with a reading passage about water conservation. After kids finish the...
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Eating Together as Good Citizens
Students explore their sense of community. They create a fruit salad, compare the salad to their community, read a book about diversity, share the salad with another class, and create a fruit floor graph.
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Creating Volunteers
Students discuss the benefits of volunteering. In this creating volunteers instructional activity, students consider philanthropic actions and opportunity costs. Students create a song and visual aid about being a volunteer.
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Settling Down in a New Country
In this immigration activity, 3rd graders discuss factors of moving to a new place. Students read quotes, view pictures with descriptions and pretend to interview a migrant.
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Class With Character
Third graders participate in a variety of activities in order to promote the concept of being a good citizen. The foundation of this unit is found in the character trait of respect for self and others in society.
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