Unity in Community - Lesson Plan Bundle (4 Lesson Plans)

Living in a community involves learning about similarities and differences. In this unit students will learn how to create unity in their communities through lessons about appreciating others, valuing diversity, and what it means to be a peacemaker.

Grade level: 6 - 8

Prep time: 10 min

Lesson Plan Durations: 60 min each

Lessons:

• Lesson Plan 1: Appreciating Our Community
• Lesson Plan 2: Valuing Diversity
• Lesson Plan 3: Being a Peacemaker
• Lesson Plan 4: Exploring Family Identity

Learning Outcomes:

It is expected that students will:

• Recognize the importance of living in community and why it is so helpful.
• Identify the ways that their community members help to make their lives easier and better.
• Demonstrate an appreciation for the community around them.
• Recognize that it is important that we are not all the same.
• Identify ways that differences between people help the community.
• Demonstrate the value of respecting and appreciating the way people are different. 
• Recognize that living in peace with others is important.
• Identify ways that they can live peacefully with those around them.
• Demonstrate the value of being peacemakers.
• Recognize the aspects of their family that make them different from other families.
• Identify the people that make up their family and contribute to their family identity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how the family they belong to contributes to their personal identity.

Bundle includes: 

• All Unity in Community lesson plans and accompanying printable material

Required Materials (Not Included):

Appreciating Our Community

• Paper and pens
• Envelopes (Optional) 

Valuing Diversity

• Paper and pens

Being a Peacemaker

• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
• Paper for folding cranes

Exploring Family Identity

• Magazines and Newspapers
• Scissors, Glue, Paper
• Family Crest Printable (Optional)

NB: Purchase includes access to downloadable resources for 6 months.