This easy-to-use curriculum package contains a treasury of fun, hands-on learning activities for ages 8-12. Easily adaptable for older and younger children as well. Topics include: Unity, 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
- Four colorful PowerPoints for use with children and youth
- Ready-to-print student handouts for each lesson
- 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
- A two-page article for parents on Overcoming Prejudice
- Editable event fliers, programs and registration forms
These items are available as free downloads with your purchase of the book.
(Download instructions on title page.)
The book itself is filled with integrated learning activities, including warm-ups, demonstrations, readings, crafts, songs, felt lessons, role plays, discussion starters, memory quotes, puzzles, poems, worksheets, research projects, outdoor games, and much more.
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.
About the Author: AUTHOR BIO: Dr. Randie Gottlieb is the head of UnityWorks - an international diversity training firm, co-founder of the Mona Foundation supporting grassroots educational development worldwide, and adjunct professor of Multicultural Education at Heritage University on the Yakama Nation Reservation. She is the author of eight 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 and with her husband, founded a Montessori-based elementary school. A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR: Thank you for visiting this site and for your mutual interest in teaching unity. It is hoped that this easy-to-use teacher's guide will serve as a valuable starting place in helping children to not only understand some of the challenges we face, but to identify potential solutions, to develop an increasingly multicultural perspective, to build skills and capacity, and to become empowered to act as a positive force for justice and harmony in the world. I am profoundly grateful to my loving family without whose support this book would not have been possible.
