Grades Kindergarten and Primary	Solving Problems in the Park: Developing Young Citizens IHow do park planners create a park for the community? What rules are needed for the park? What are the best plants and play equipment for the park? This unit provides young children with an array of problems to solve in the creation and maintenance of the park. When children are confronted with bullies, they learn strategies for responding and keeping the park a safe place for everyone. Students learn about civic participation and the importance of creating a park for everyone to enjoy. Language activities build young student's capacity to communicate both in speaking and writing about important civic and social learning as they immerse themselves in the roles of park planners
	Grades 3-5	Coming soon... The Advertising Agency: State Studies As advertising agents, students learn about states or regions depending on the teacher's learning goals and encounter the challenges typical of agencies including consumer complaints. This literacy rich experience allows students to apply literacy skills in context.
	Grades 5-8	Coming soon... A Nation Divided Living in Gettysburg prior to the outbreak of war provides students with an understanding of life in a small town, a town at the crossroads between the North and the South with the accompanying attitudes towards an indivisible nation and the "slave problem." As the events unfold that directly affect the town, students respond in their townspeople roles considering the risks attendant in a war torn community. Primary documents provide firsthand accounts of the events reinforcing the skills of reading for information, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, and understanding visuals. Students write about their experiences through the eyes of their characters to make sense of these historical events. Web sites to support A Nation Divided. Children's literature to support A Nation Divided.
	Grades 5-8	Coming soon... Coming to America The unit evolves over six episodes as students learn why people in the early 1900s chose to emigrate from their European homelands to establish a new life in the United States. Students immerse themselves in the events of the story by creating emigrant families from various regions of Europe and experience the "pushes and pulls" that caused the families to emigrate. Students create the steamship and role-lay life aboard ship as they travel to the Untied States. As an optional episode students create New York Harbor, the Statue of Liverty and Ellis Island and then role-play their arrival. Students plan where their families will live in this new land and imagine the challenges of beginning a new life in an unfamiliar place. The unit concludes with a 20-year reunion when the famiies come together to share their life experienes in their new homeland.
	Grades 5-8	Coming soon... The Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Summer Students create civil rights workers who travel to Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to register Black voters for the upcoming presidential election. Through this process they examine issues of justice and equity and learn about the courage of the civil rights workers and Black families who risked their jobs, property, and sometimes their lives to register to vote. The unit naturally integrates social studies, literacy and art as students create civil rights workers, plan for their trip, enounter prejudice and discrimination and consider the Constitutional rights guaranteed to all citizens including the right to vote.