BrainPOP is an educational website with over 1,000 short animated movies, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
What’s so special about being an American citizen? A lot, as Tim and Moby show you in this BrainPOP movie! Learn the broad definition of citizenship and how it applies to citizens of the United States. Explore some of the freedoms all citizens enjoy, thanks to documents like the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. You’ll also discover the responsibilities that come with those rights, from the obligation to pay taxes to the importance of voting in elections. And learn how the naturalization process can open the doors of citizenship to anyone who wants to experience the American dream!
Service Learning: Real-Life Applications for Learning
Community service is exactly what it sounds like: services that you do to benefit your community. If that sounds a little broad, it’s because it is -- community service can take a lot of different forms since there’s SO much you can do to help people in your area.
The organisation called the Peace Corps promotes good feelings between the United States and countries around the world. The US government runs the Peace Corps. People who work in the Peace Corps go wherever they are needed in the world.
General information. Good for finding out about a topic when you begin research. Includes up-to-date information sources and allows you to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed.
A community is a group of people living in a particular area. A community can be made up of a large or small group of people. The land area of a community can also be large or small. A community may be roomy or crowded, depending on the size of its land area and population, or amount of people living there.
Understanding Advocacy and Action
Stages of Service Learning
What Is Community Service? (FULL-LENGTH VERSION)
How volunteers hand-raised an orphaned short-tailed fruit bat
Lil’ Drac is an orphaned short-tailed fruit bat. This video tells the story of how volunteers at Bat World Sanctuary in Mineral Wells, Texas hand-raised Lil’ Drac from a baby to a healthy adult.
Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day"
Books About Kindness & Paying It Forward
Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed
by
Emily Pearson; Fumi Kosaka (Illustrator)
Can one child's good deed change the world? It can when she's Ordinary Mary--an ordinary girl from an ordinary school, on her way to her ordinary house--who stumbles upon ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, she starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world. Updated illustrations and endpapers are now paired with this beloved storyline as it stirs a whole new generation on to more random acts of kindness--proving one child's compassion and empathy really can change the world.
The Invisible Boy
by
Trudy Ludwig; Patrice Barton (Illustrator)
Meet Brian, the invisible boy. Nobody ever seems to notice him or think to include him in their group, game, or birthday party . . . until, that is, a new kid comes to class. When Justin, the new boy, arrives, Brian is the first to make him feel welcome. And when Brian and Justin team up to work on a class project together, Brian finds a way to shine.
Be Kind
by
Pat Zietlow Miller; Jen Hill (Illustrator)
When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores what a child can do to be kind, and how each act, big or small, can make a difference--or at least help a friend.
I Walk with Vanessa
by
Kerascoët; Kerascoët
Inspired by real events and told only in pictures, this is an empowering picture book from a New York Times bestselling husband-and-wife team about one girl who inspires a community to stand up to bullying. This simple yet powerful picture book tells the story of an elementary school girl named Vanessa who is bullied and a fellow student who witnesses the act and is at first unsure of how to help. I Walk with Vanessa explores the feelings of helplessness and anger that arise in the wake of seeing a classmate treated badly, and shows how a single act of kindness can lead to an entire community joining in to help. With themes of acceptance, kindness, and strength in numbers, this timeless and profound feel-good story will resonate with readers young and old.
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
by
Carol McCloud; David Messing (Illustrator); Merrill Lundgren (Foreword by)
Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation and love. Bucket filling and dipping are effective metaphors for understanding the effects of our actions and words on the well being of others and ourselves.
The Circles All Around Us
The Circles All Around Us
by
Brad Montague (Illustrator); Kristi Montague (Illustrator)
The debut picture book from the creator of the viral sensation Kid President is a moving take on how we can create bigger and bigger circles of community and connections as we grow-now a New York Times bestseller! In the circles all around us, everywhere that we all go, there's a difference we can make and a love we can all show. This is the story of a circle. When we're first born, our circle is very small, but as we grow and build relationships, our circle keeps getting bigger and bigger to include family, friends, neighbors, community, and beyond.
Small kindness, big impact: How grocery runs strengthened a community
Every week, Herman Travis loads up a heavy shopping cart full of groceries from a food bank and pushes it up a hill for delivery to elderly and disabled neighbors. It’s his way of helping his community.