Community Life And Schools

Encourage class members to get involved in their community with a lesson that highlights the benefits of helping others. Through grand conversation and a visual aid that sheds light on the interconnectedness within community service,...

Put a little love in your classroom! Help middle school scholars understand differences among people and build a sense of community within their school through 10 well-organized lessons. Each unique activity incorporates writing,...

Learners investigate primary and secondary sources for information and evidence about community life in Colorado mining towns. They create a brochure to attract settlers to a hypothetical mining community.

This is a fantastic resource designed for learners to envision what it was like for the three million African-Americans who migrated to urban industrial centers of the northern United States between 1910 and 1940. After reading a...

Whether at home or in the classroom, each member of a community has certain responsibilities they must tend to. With the help of the children's story Piggybook by Anthony Browne, kids learn how to assign jobs in a fair and safe manner...

What is a community? Find out with a instructional activity that sheds light onto the different types of communities—school, local, and global. Scholars read informational text detailing the life of a young girl from Cape Verde and take...

Welcome your class back to school! They will participate in a character education instructional activity in order to build community at the school. First they identify needs of new students by putting themselves in their shoes and create...

Even superheroes can be bullied! Using a clip from the film Sky High, the 12th activity in a 17-part character education series examines how identifying with a specific group has its ups and downs. Groups view the clip, then explore ways...

Students determine how they are included in "Circles of Strength." In this character lesson, students reflect on how they are part of "Circles of Strength" in the "Circle of Life." They make an individual circle that includes their...

Students participate in an activity that will allow them to create a gift for a nursing home patient and give their gift to someone who needs a caring hand. In this community service instructional activity, students learn compassion, and...