Discuss and evaluate personal beliefs and attitudes about the treatment of animals, especially applied to sports and entertainment. We explore how laws and beliefs concerning animal welfare affect personal responses to animal treatment.
Learners identify ways to use advocacy to promote change.
Youth research current data and stories about climate change and ways to reverse the damage caused by human activity. Through discussion and research, they establish things they can do personally and as a team as environmental stewards.
The purpose of this lesson is for learners to evaluate what first impressions of people they form and to deliberately be more open to treating people respectfully.
The learners define courage and describe the identity of someone with courage. They describe courage with words that show what it is and what it isn't.
The learners choose a person of courage to honor on a commemorative "postage stamp."
Learners define actions they can take to show respect in their school and community.
This lesson focuses on another type of respect: valuing the world around you. Learners analyze a John Muir quote and discuss what they can do to show respect for the world.
Working in small groups, learners match the classic hero traits to an activist who took social action for the common good.