Empowering Global Citizens

Skills and Knowledge

1. Students will learn the characteristics that children change makers
share.

2. Students will recognize their own capacity to be change makers.

3. Students will develop the skills to collaborate with others in or—
der to make a tangible contribution to the education of other

children.

Overview

In the concluding unit for the grade, students build on the previous analyses
of similarities and differences in how children grow up around the world
and in their opportunity to be educated and analyze the ways in which
children can express their agency in positive ways that make a difference.
Students engage in a small project in which they make a contribution to the
education of other children in some part of the world.

Activity 2.4.1 How Do We Help Others?

The teacher will discuss examples of how the students help others at home,
in their community, and beyond. The teacher will then discuss examples
of children who have helped others on a larger scale—for example, the
founders of the World Children Organization or some of the children fea—
tured in Scholastic’s Kids Make a Difference series (see below). Students in
the class will then be asked to read a story about one of those children and
to create a painting or write a song, paragraph, or poem that explains how
that child is making a difference and why that difference is important. The
teacher will then introduce the SDGs using the lesson plans developed by
UNICEF.

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