We acknowledge that North Thurston Public Schools resides on the traditional lands of the Nisqually people. The Nisqually have lived on and cared for this land and these waterways since time immemorial. We make this acknowledgement to open a space of recognition, inclusion, and respect for our sovereign tribal partners and all indigenous students, families, and staff in our community.

Lesson plan/ Activity ideas

Elementary

Middle School

High School

Guidelines and support for Billy Frank Jr. Day

Guiding Principles

• Civil Disobedience

• Treaty Rights Advocacy

• Environment Stewardship

• Service

Grade Band "Taking Informed Action" Targets

Adapted from C3 Frameworks (NCSS)

Grades K-2

• Identify and explain a range of local or regional problems and some ways in which people are trying to address these problems/ issues

• Identify ways to take action to help address these problems/ issues

• Use listening and consensus-building to decide on how to take action to address problems/ issues

Grades 3-5

• Explain the challenges people have faced and opportunities they have created, in addressing local and regional problems at various times and places

• Explain different strategies and approaches students and other could take in working alone or together to address local and regional problems, and predict possible results of actions

• Use deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions about and act on problem

Grades 6-8

• Analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at a local or regional level, identify the characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem

• Assess individual and collective capacities to take action to address local or regional problems, taking into account the range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes

• Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in their classroom and school, and in out-of-school civic contexts

Grades 9-12

• Understand the characteristics and causes of local and regional problems; instances of such problems in multiple context; and challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address these problems

• Assess options for individual and collective action to address local or regional problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning

• Apply a range of deliberative and democratic strategies and procedures to make decisions and take action in their classroom, school, and out-of-school civic action