PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Providers: Community Screening Guide
This Guide is intended to assist facilitators to use the film as a starting point to address the healthcare crisis in rural communities across America. As our nation's demographics become more urban, rural populations are aging, have...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Why Do People Have Jobs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart not only introduces the importance of Jobs at home and in our community it is a great starter for Career Day at school. The lesson can extend to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade towards...
Read Works
Read Works: A Community of People
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the meaning of the word "community." A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?
Suppose the government does everything it can to protect people's rights. Is this enough? Will their rights be protected? Do we have any responsibility to protect not only our own rights, but each other's as well? This lesson plan looks...
Other
Multicultural History Society: Seeing Our Surroundings (Sos)
This is a secondary project that was undertaken at a Toronto High school. Students interviewed people in their neighbourhood to explore the meaning of community. They also learned about what it means to be Canadian.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Caring
An online guide to accompany a video in the "In Search of Character," series, this website includes a definition of "Caring," discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas. Good ideas for discussing how we care about other...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Whose Streets?: Lesson Plan Clips
This lesson provides a framework for critical analysis of current and historic race relations in America through the lens of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, Jr., a young unarmed black man, by white police officer Darren Wilson in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know You
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environment
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
Library of Congress
Loc: Local Legacies
Experience America through its grassroots! Diverse populations lend cultural colorfulness to our country. Read about an International Food Fair in California, Annie Oakley Days in Ohio, and Wabanaki Basketry in Maine. Click on your...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Educators Pack for Online Safety Awareness
The internet provides educators with a great tool for teaching young people, communicating with others, and sharing successes with the wider community. In order to make the most out social media, technology and the internet, we have put...