Teaching Unity: A Guide for Parents and Teachers with Learning Activities for Ages 8 -12 - Softcover
Synopsis
This easy-to-use curriculum package contains a treasury of fun, hands-on, kid-tested learning activities for ages 8-12, including warm-ups, demonstrations, crafts, songs, felt lessons, role plays, discussion starters, memory quotes, puzzles, poems, worksheets, research projects, outdoor games, and more. Easily adaptable for older and younger children as well. The book was honored as an IP Notable by Independent Publisher Magazine, which called it "a title of distinction—as important as the ABC's and the 123s." Topics include: One Human Race, Unity in Diversity, Skin Color and Overcoming Prejudice. The lessons are ideal for academic classes, after-school clubs, Saturday or Sunday schools, weekend retreats and summer camps.
THE PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- Our 300 page teacher's guide with step-by-step lesson plans
- Song sheets, readings and printable student handouts
- Craft patterns with detailed instructions and illustrations
- Download with 45 color photos of our global human family
- Plans for a Children’s Unity Camp and final performance
- Two-page article for parents on Overcoming Prejudice
- Colorful PowerPoint Review of key concepts from the book
- Editable event fliers, programs and registration forms
These items are available as free downloads with your purchase of the book. (See download instructions on title page.) Four additional PowerPoints designed to enhance your use of the book are available separately.
Teaching Unity supports national educational standards across multiple subjects and grade levels, and incorporates Marzano’s nine high-yield classroom strategies throughout the book.
Its purpose is to help prepare our children to live as citizens in a global society—recognizing our interdependence, respectful of our differences, and working together towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.
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About the Author
Dr. Randie Gottlieb is the head of UnityWorks, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reducing prejudice and to promoting cross-racial and cross-cultural understanding, equity and inclusion, with a focus on K-12 schools. She is also co-founder of the Mona Foundation supporting grassroots educational development worldwide, and Professor Emeritus of Multicultural Education at Heritage University on the Yakama Nation Reservation. She has authored twelve other books and holds degrees in education from Cal State, Boston University and Harvard. Her work has taken her to over 30 countries, including 11 years in Puerto Rico, where she managed an international training center, produced Spanish-language community-service radio and television programs, and with her husband, founded a Montessori-based elementary school.
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