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Celebrating Families

Celebrating Families

The eight challenges in this unit focus on the similarities and differences among families. Throughout the unit, students compile and create materials for inclusion in a family memory box. The activities include creating and presenting clues about family members to other students who try to guess the identity of the mystery family member; deciding which of their family memories are the most powerful; exploring the benefits of different-sized families; and planning key aspects of an event to celebrate with their families what they have learned. (119 pp.)

ISBN 978-0-86491-246-6

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Contributing to Family and Community

Contributing to Family and Community

The eight challenges in this unit explore the many ways in which family and comunity members help meet one another's needs. Students analyze sample and actual communities, research community roles through picture books and interviews, and try to guess the the identity of community roles in a game of charades. In learning to appreciate their community, students consider what they would most miss if they moved away, and select the most important contribution by each community member before sending each a note of appreciation. (128 pp.)

ISBN 978-0-86491-250-3


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Critical Challenges for Primary Students

Critical Challenges for Primary Students

Critical Challenges for Primary Students (Revised Edition) is a collection of 20 detailed lesson plans inviting kindergarten to grade 3 children to think critically about a range of topics drawn from Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. The teaching activities are organized around five themes: community/environment, moral dilemmas, teaching and learning from others, human nature, and family. The resource features such challenges as:

• designing a community;
• learning to ask powerful questions;
• making a lasting contribution to someone in the community; and
• solving a schoolyard problem.

This new edition has been greatly expanded to include newly created assessment rubrics for every challenge in both collections, many more student activity sheets to scaffold their learning, and an enhanced focus on teaching the “tools” to think critically. (128 pp.)

ISBN 978-0-86491-284-8

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I Can Make A Difference

I Can Make A Difference

The nine challenges in this collection support primary students in undertaking responsible "social" action - in the home, at school, and in the broader community. The first section is on fulfilling one's responsibilities in the face of a problem situation - from assuming one's fair share of household or school chores to welcoming a newcomer from another community or country. The second section focuses on provocative efforts to enhance the community - deciding how to cheer up an elderly person, assembling a care package to support a homeless person and passing along an act of kindness. (134 pp.)

ISBN 978-0-86491-262-6

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Rights, Roles and Responsibilities at School

Rights, Roles and Responsibilities at School

The nine challenges in this unit explore the responsibilities of various school roles, including students’ own responsibilities. In the introductory section on needs and wants, students learn to recognize what is needed for different objects to work, activities to take place and people to function.

They then consider their most important learning needs at school and the responsibilities they and others have to ensure that these needs are met. In the final challenge, students monitor and assess how well they meet their responsibilities to themselves and to others. (109 pp.)

ISBN 978-0-86491-248-X

 


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