COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Make Your Voice Heard!
PBL Curriculum for Grades 3 ā€“ 12
This curriculum will help youth learn how to become community advocates and make their voices heard. They will learn to identify pressing issues, build leadership skills, and create strategies to make a lasting difference. Youth will explore career paths, learn digital skills, and work with policymakers to create a meaningful change.
Learning Objectives
In this engaging and influential program, youth will:
- Identify a problem in their community and organize an action plan for change.
- Dive deep into leadership development and action steps to mobilize others with a shared mission.
- Take action steps to mobilize others in their community.
- Create a team and work collaboratively in understanding policies and legislative systems.
Processes & Activities
- Explore and Identify their Values.
- Develop a Common Vision & Strategy.
- Create the Plan & Evaluate the Results.
- Explore and Identify Career Pathways for themselves.
- Learning video production and editing skills.
- Learning basic digital graphic design skills.
- Setting and achieving personal goals.
- Start a movement.
- Create an awareness event.
- Connect to a politician.
- Create a 3-5 minute documentary video.
- Presenting findings to peers.
Course Outline For Educators
Curriculum Fundamentals
- Introduction to IDEAS Empowered by YouthĀ® PBL Curricula
- Creating an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Effective Facilitation
- An Introduction to Project-Based Learning
- PBLWorks Gold Standards
- Introduction & Facilitation TrainingĀ
- Knowledge Assessment
- Resources
- Certification
Community Organizing PBL Curriruclum
- Introduction
- Facilitator's Guide
- Prezi Presentation
- Evaluation Rubric
- Student's Final Project Example
All our project based learning curricula contain a career pathway component, which helps youth explore career options in various industries.
Software Skills
Youth will learn to use Canva which is a free-to-use online graphic design tool used create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.
Youth will learn to use Prezi, a web-based tool for creating presentations which uses different media types to help make whatever is being shown as engaging as possible.
Youth will learn to use Microsoft PowerPoint, a program that empowers you to create clean slideshow presentations and intricate pitch decks.
Youth will learn to create and edit videos using tools like Windows Movie Maker, adding music and record presentations and PSA as a group or as an individual.