Contribution, Global Perspectives, & Social Science as Elements of Educational Curriculum for Life
This page outlines teaching curriculum ideas for Contribution, Global Perspectives, and Social Science as elements of the “Sharing” category of the Curriculum for Life component of the open source Education for Life Program. This curriculum is meant as a globally collaborative and ever-expanding archive of ideas to be combined with the Teaching Strategies for Life component, and Learning Tools and Toys for Life component, to create endless Lesson Plans for Life purposed to grow and evolve what we feel will be the most comprehensive, effective, and diversely applicable free-education program and open source and free-shared project-launch usable education blueprint in the world.
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CONTRIBUTION, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, & SOCIAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM
The following is a list of contribution, global perspectives, and social science curriculum topics divided into 4 categories: “Contribution,” “Current Events and Social Science,” “Global Perspectives and History,” and “Social Studies in Relation to What is for The Highest Good of All.” If you have an idea or topic that you believe should be included here, please send it to us using our Suggestions Page. Visit our Lesson Plans Page for lesson plans designed to integrate this curriculum.
NOTE: Curriculum with asterisks is curriculum we consider “core curriculum” that is central to the lesson plan design process. To identify these subjects we adopted the California Department of Education guidelines (because they are some of the most comprehensive and strict in the nation), added in the national SAT/ACT expectations for grade 7 and beyond, referenced the US Common Core State Standards Documents, and then double checked our curriculum and goals against the best selling and #1 teacher recommended Spectrum Test Prep workbook series. Curriculum with “*” is curriculum identified through these methods as foundational to 1st-6th grade learning. Curriculum with “**” is curriculum identified through these methods as foundational to 7th-12th learning.
CONTRIBUTION
- What is a contribution?
- Strategies for asking for help
- Strategies for offering to help
- Why would you want to contribute to something?
- Why wouldn’t you want to contribute to something?
- Exploration of the idea that helping others helps you
- Exploring active contribution versus passive contribution
- Exploring conscious versus unconscious contribution
- Contribution in relation to your own goals
- Contribution in relation to your family
- Contribution in relation to your community
- Contribution in relation to your cultural community
- Contribution in relation to your global community
- What is the contribution of specifically choosing not to contribute to something?
- What does it mean to volunteer for something and how is this helpful
- Setting proper boundaries to maintain win-win relationships for yourself
- Clarifying boundaries to assure win-win relationships with others
- Developing and maintaining a culture of “How can I help?”
- Attitude as an aspect of contribution in all situations
- Teaching / demonstration opportunities for all age groups
- Adults contributing to the learning and growth of children
- Children contributing to the learning and growth of adults
- Children contributing to the learning and growth of other children
- See also: Sharing, Giving, and Receiving curriculum
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CURRENT EVENTS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCE
- What is social science?*
- Exploration of current events and how they affect you and contribute to your life*
- Exploration of current events and how they affect your family and their lives*
- Exploration of current events and how they might be affecting other families and their lives*
- Exploration of current events and how they affect your community and their lives*
- Exploration of current events and how they might be affecting other communities and their lives*
- Exploration of current events and how they affect your culture and the lives of everyone in it*
- Exploration of current events and how they might be affecting other cultures and their lives*
- Exploration of current events and how they affect humanity as a whole*
- Strategies for engaging diverse perspectives and conducting research**
- See also: Collaboration and Cooperation curriculum
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES & HISTORY
- What does it mean to think globally?**
- Is a global perspective important?**
- Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global individuals**
- Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global families**
- Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global communities**
- Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global cultures**
- Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of humanity as a whole**
- What other global perspectives exist and what historical perspectives distinguishes them?**
- Global perspectives and history in relation to what is for The Highest Good of All *
- Objectivity and research in relation to perspectives and identifying the source perspective
- See Also: Diversity, Differences, and Similarities curriculum
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