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Note to Educators
Welcome to Creative Changemakers, an immersive and dynamic standards-aligned curriculum designed to help 6th-12th grade students develop a deep understanding of the connection between storytelling and creative action through the use of the arts and multimedia.
Our program guides students through the hands-on process of developing social impact projects as they explore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. By discovering how the ideas laid out in these documents apply to the world at large, students will develop critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills.
These lessons were created to accommodate and support diverse learning styles and the modular design of our curriculum allows flexibility for teachers of various subject areas to tailor the program to the needs of their students and teaching schedules.
As teachers, we know the importance of fostering creativity and empowering students to take meaningful action in their communities. With our Creative Changemakers curriculum, we aim to do just that. Join us in igniting the passion for positive change in your students through the power of storytelling.
Module 1 - Story: Making Change through Storytelling
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The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Students will learn about Eleanor Roosevelt and her involvement in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Then students will explore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and reflect on how it applies (or not) to their communities and the world at large.The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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The Story of the UN Sustainable Development Goals The Sustainable Development Goals are presented as a foundation for students’ awareness and understanding of the global effort to create a more just, sustainable planet.The Story of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Introduction to Creative Changemakers & Storytellers Students will gain an understanding of efforts used by successful changemakers to create impact using visual art, literary arts, and performing arts.Introduction to Creative Changemakers & Storytellers
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These Are the Changemakers: Visual Arts As a means of building students’ readiness for developing their own creative action projects, this lesson focuses students’ attention on successful changemakers who use the visual arts to address issues and create impact in their communities and the world at large. These featured changemakers will serve as models for the projects students will begin in an upcoming lesson.These Are the Changemakers: Visual Arts
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These Are the Changemakers: Performing Arts As a means of building students’ readiness for developing their own creative action projects, this lesson focuses students’ attention on successful changemakers who use the performing arts to address issues and create impact in their communities and the world at large. These featured changemakers will serve as models for the projects students will begin in an upcoming lesson.These Are the Changemakers: Performing Arts
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These Are the Changemakers: Literary Arts As a means of building students’ readiness for the development of their own creative action projects, this lesson focuses students’ attention on the efforts of successful changemakers who use the literary arts to address issues and create impact in their communities and the world at large. These featured changemakers will model the projects students will begin in an upcoming lesson.These Are the Changemakers: Literary Arts
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These Are the Changemakers: Film As a means of building students’ readiness for developing their own creative action projects, this lesson focuses students’ attention on successful changemakers who use film to address issues and create impact in their communities and the world at large. These featured changemakers will model the projects students will begin in an upcoming lesson.These Are the Changemakers: Film
Module 2 - Changemakers & You
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Who Makes Your Heart Race? This lesson will guide students as they begin to independently explore changemakers and how these changemakers use art/media to highlight their issues. This step-stone lesson will lead students to discover their own causes and select their own methods of creative changemaking.Who Makes Your Heart Race?
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Connecting the UDHR to the Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as foundations for students’ awareness of human rights. These documents will provide the lens through which students will peer as they begin to think about the challenges facing their communities (or the world at large) while exploring possible methods to shine their own creative lights on these challenges.Connecting the UDHR to the Sustainable Development Goals
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What’s the Issue? Through the use of hexagonal thinking, students will make connections to the articles of the UDHR or to one of the SDGs. Hexagonal thinking will help to narrow the students’ scope to one article or one goal, which will then allow them to identify a specific issue and call to action that will be at the center of their creative action campaigns.What’s the Issue?
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Find a Changemaker Working on Your Issue Students will search for and study the work of successful human rights defenders who have championed a cause similar to or the same as the students’ issues of choice.Find a Changemaker Working on Your Issue
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Let’s Visualize to Actualize! Students will create a visual brainstorm that will serve as a roadmap before they begin work on their Creative Changemakers project.Let’s Visualize to Actualize!
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What’s Your Story and How Will It Best be Told? Students will examine how storytelling can create change in their communities and the world at large. They will do this by taking a closer look at the elements of storytelling and how these elements appear not just in written and verbal expression, but also in the visual, performing, and cinematic arts. They will then explore how sound storytelling can affect how others feel and think, thus, creating a connection between themselves and their audiences.What’s Your Story and How Will It Best be Told?
Module 3 - Taking Creative Action
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Gathering Your Thoughts This lesson helps students consider their explorations and discoveries thus far. Students will consider their reflections and points of interest and determine the medium they wish to use to address their issue of choice.Gathering Your Thoughts
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Making a Statement This lesson is designed to help students understand several fundamental elements of effective changemaking. Students will connect their stories with their issues of choice and explore how they want to affect their audience with their project.Making a Statement
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Persuasive Elements of Storytelling This lesson is designed to help students consider the classic use of persuasive elements, or the rhetorical triangle, in their changemaking efforts.Persuasive Elements of Storytelling
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The Metrics of Changemaking This lesson aims to help students consider what it means to advocate successfully and how to establish smart, measurable goals.The Metrics of Changemaking
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Share Your Story The purpose of this lesson is to support and guide students in their efforts to share their change-making stories directly and indirectly with their communities and beyond.Share Your Story