Extension Activities
Extension Activities
Social Awareness | Grades 9-12
Social Awareness | Grades 9-12
Learning Goal 2: Demonstrates awareness and respect of groups and their cultures, languages, identities, traditions, values, and histories.
Go back: Core Ed.
Go back: Intervention Ed.
Benchmark 1: Demonstrate respect for individuals from different social and cultural groups.
Benchmark 1: Demonstrate respect for individuals from different social and cultural groups.
Take it further — integrate!
Take it further — integrate!
Have students identify opportunities for civic engagement and service learning at the local level in the community. Help students organize a service learning project.
Benchmark 2: Demonstrate understanding of apparent and not apparent community/cultural practices, customs and ways of making meaning that impact communities differently.
Benchmark 2: Demonstrate understanding of apparent and not apparent community/cultural practices, customs and ways of making meaning that impact communities differently.
Take it further — integrate!
Take it further — integrate!
Reflection activity about what students learned about the activity.
Benchmark 3: Demonstrate an understanding of how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination affect the design of institutions and social structures.
Benchmark 3: Demonstrate an understanding of how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination affect the design of institutions and social structures.
Take it further — integrate!
Take it further — integrate!
Students select a topic of interest or concern in their local community. Have them compare this topic of concern to concerns on the national level, considering community reaction and involvement.
Benchmark 4: Evaluate strategies for recognizing and opposing stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination among individuals, institutions and social structures.
Benchmark 4: Evaluate strategies for recognizing and opposing stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination among individuals, institutions and social structures.
Take it further — integrate!
Take it further — integrate!
Implement a social studies curriculum such as “Facing History and Ourselves” to promote cultural awareness and respect for others.