The Common Core-aligned Teacher’s Guide supports educators and community leaders provide social change instruction. This resource provides lesson plans, activities, and discussion prompts to inspire and empower the next generation of activists. This activist facilitator handbook is an easy-to-use way to incorporate social change into your middle school, high school, college, or community curriculum.
This is the paperback version of the Teacher’s Guide.
The Happy Activist and the companion The 5-Step Activism Path Workbook guide students down a 5-step path to effective, motivating activism that allows students to:
- make the world a better place by using their unique skills to solve challenges in their community,
- become more explicit about the world they wish to see,
- better understand issues that they may be a part of solving,
- learn skills such as planning, communicating, and writing, and
- understand their unique gifts and how they use them to make change.
Overview of The Happy Activist for Use in The Classroom
| Genre | Nonfiction | ||
| Reading Level The New Dale-Chall Formula | Grades 9-10 | ||
| Reading Level Flesch Kincaid | Grade 8 | ||
| Interest Level | Grades 6-12 | ||
| Lexile™ Measure | 1010L – 1200L | ||
| Themes | Social change, activism, diversity | ||
| Versions | Print and eBook | ||
| Aligned to Common Core Standards? | Yes |
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