Extension Activities
Extension Activities
Social Awareness | Grades 6-8
Social Awareness | Grades 6-8
Learning Goal 3: Demonstrates awareness of how individuals and groups cooperate toward achieving common goals and ideals.
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Benchmark 1: Explain how individual attitudes and behaviors affect the well-being of their school or community.
Benchmark 1: Explain how individual attitudes and behaviors affect the well-being of their school or community.
Take it further — integrate!
Take it further — integrate!
Students draw an “impact web” of how their actions could potentially affect others, or how a historical figure’s actions affected society.
Benchmark 2: Learn about social movements, such as civil rights, abolition and suffrage, and the leaders of the movements and strategies.
Benchmark 2: Learn about social movements, such as civil rights, abolition and suffrage, and the leaders of the movements and strategies.
Take it further — integrate!
Take it further — integrate!
Create opportunities for participation in civic engagement at the school level.
Benchmark 3: Work collaboratively with peers to analyze and address a shared school initiative.
Benchmark 3: Work collaboratively with peers to analyze and address a shared school initiative.
Take it further — integrate!
Take it further — integrate!
Adopt a community project. Have students reflect about what they learned about the project.