Format
1. The program begins by learning about Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, the National Park Service and Mission: Resilience.
2. Students complete a mindfulness breathing activity and reflect on what resilience means to them.
3. We then discuss the definition of resilience and the resiliency tenets of Self-Awareness + Strengths of Character.
4. As a group, students complete a bingo activity while learning about the daily lives of the Ancestral People.
5. Students compare their strengths to the strengths of the Ancestral people.
5. 5-10 minutes will be left at the end for student questions.
Objectives
At the end of this program, students will be able to:
• Understand the role of strengths of character in an individual’s and community’s success.
• Discuss the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People and draw inspiration from them
• Identify at least 2 strengths of the Ancestral People.
• Reflect on and identify 2 of their own strengths.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Common Core Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.3
Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.3
Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
State Standards
Arizona
History-Social Studies
3.SP1.2 Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.
3.G2.1 Explain how people modify and adapt to the Arizona environment.
4.SP1.2 Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.
4.G2.1 Compare the diverse ways people or groups of people have impacted, modified, or adapted to the environment of the Americas.