RMTC: D/HH Character and Community Education

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Character Education and Community Education & Citizenship Resources

Character Education

Character Education Lesson Plans - http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/nccep/lp/
A collection of lesson plans focusing on different areas of character education from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Character Counts - http://www.charactercounts.org/ideas/ideatoc.htm
This site provides lesson plans and activities categorized by age.

Character Education Site - http://wayne.k12.ny.us/character_education/Default.htm
This teacher-created web site promotes Character Education and includes lots of links.

Multicultural Passport -
http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/passport/lessonplan/lessonindex.htm
A collection of lesson plans dealing with multicultural issues. Most of the
lessons were developed for elementary and middle school students, but some
are applicable to secondary students as well.

Take a Walk in my Shoes - http://TeachersFirst.org/winners/shoes.htm
This is a Social Studies unit for grades 7-9 to help students understand the
conflicts in the Middle East.

Tolerance.org - http://Tolerance.org/
A Web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org encourages
people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance". See
their Daily Lesson Plan Archive

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Community Education

Comparing Communities - http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/comp.html
A lesson plan in which K-2 students can interview a classroom guest about their own community, which may be quite different from their own. This difference in turn will help them understand their own better, while gaining knowledge of similarities and differences in the ways people live and work together.

U.S. EPA Explorer's Club - http://www.epa.gov/kids/
On this Environmental Protection Agency's kids' site, students can learn about air, water, garbage, recycling, plants, animals, and other earth-minded topics through lessons, activities, and interactive games.

Citizenship Education

Learning Adventures in Citizenship - http://www.thirteen.org/newyork/laic/index.html
Based on the PBS series NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM, the web site is full of video clips, historical documents, illustrations, and fun explorable environments for kids. The Web site also contains: a rotating gallery of student work; a contest, with digital cameras donated by CANON; primers on student volunteerism and social science inquiry; a historical resource guide for each state; and lesson plans for teachers.

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