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AmeriCorps works with a variety of different groups of people to foster civic engagement and unity. The organization provides services and resources that teachers can use to teach students about civic engagement and encourage them to become more involved in their communities at a young age.

AmeriCorps can be used in a high school classroom to teach students about various issues in their community, state, or region and how they can become involved. One way teachers can introduce the idea of civic engagement to students through AmeriCorps is by having students search for local service opportunities on the AmeriCorps website. Students will use the "Find An Opportunity" option and filter the service projects to their state. Once they've done this, they can look through the projects and identify which opportunities are most interesting or which causes they feel most passionate about. They will select one service project to share with their classmates. While the students might not actually participate in these projects, the process of searching for and sharing the service projects with their classmates will educate the students on the issues facing their local community and help them brainstorm how they can get involved in a way that is realistic for them.

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A modest living allowance (available to most members)

Childcare and/or health benefits (available to some members)

Skills-based and professional development training

Forbearance for federally backed students loans; after you successfully complete your term of service, you are eligible to have the interest incurred during service paid in full

After service, you will receive:

Segal AmeriCorps Education Award to use on future educational expenses or to pay back qualified student loans. The value is dependent on length of service. Members 55+ are eligible to transfer their Education Award to a family member

Competitive job edge in your job search, including access to a network of over 600 Employers of National Service

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A modest living allowance (available to most members) Childcare and/or health benefits (available to some members) Skills-based and professional development training Forbearance for federally backed students loans; after you successfully complete your term of service, you are eligible to have the interest incurred during service paid in full After service, you will receive: Segal AmeriCorps Education Award to use on future educational expenses or to pay back qualified student loans.

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PBS LearningMedia provides educators with a resource archive to help improve their students' global awareness. This resource offers lesson plans, articles, videos, and interactive activities to strengthen instruction.

One lesson that this resource offers covers the displacement of people across the world. A complete lesson plan for students in grades 9-12 is available entitled "Populations at Risk: The Problems Facing Internally Displaced Persons Worldwide." The lesson includes a variety of materials to teach students about what it means to be a displaced person, which groups are most likely to be affected by displacement, and what solutions are available for people who have been displaced. This lesson is just one of many available for teachers to teach their students about issues affecting people worldwide.

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Global Learning and Awareness | PBS LearningMedia

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Explore why learning about the international community matters. Learn about major global issues-including education, global conservation and environmentalism, global health, and human rights-through videos, images, background essays, and lesson plans. These resources are designed to foster understanding of the lives of youth around the globe and enhance U.S.

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Newsela is another resource archive. It provides teachers with a large array of articles, short stories, videos, and lessons about any topic imaginable, including global issues and the importance of diversity. The texts and activities are also able to be differentiated to meet the needs of each student.

Lessons can be assigned to students on Newsela. For example, if a teacher wants their students to learn more about a particular global issue or event, they can assign activities for students centering around an article about this issue/event. When assigning the article, Newsela asks the teachers which additional activities they would like to assign for students to complete in addition to reading the article. Teachers can have their students fill out a pre-reading poll, annotate the text, complete post-reading discussion questions, take a quiz, or complete a writing prompt. There is also an option to provide supplemental texts that can help the students learn more about the topic after completing the initial activities.

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Facing History and Ourselves is a great resource for teachers of any content area to increase their students' global awareness and understanding of diversity. The resource offers training for teachers as well as activities for students of any ability and grade level.

One lesson that Facing History and Ourselves provides for secondary English teachers is an insightful analysis of Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" and how it relates to hardships and hope in our country. This mini-lesson asks students to watch Gorman read the poem first, then read the poem independently to identify craft moves and poetic devices. After breaking down the poem for its literary components, the students are asked to identify how Gorman's poem relates to the issues currently facing our country and how those issues affect them. This lesson incorporates both ELA content and current societal issues to help students make connections between the content they are learning in class and the things happening around them in the world.

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Explore our wide range of curricular resources and professional learning for secondary English Language Arts classrooms.

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National Geographic Education provides videos, articles, and interactive maps to help students gain more global awareness. Teachers can pair these resources with their curriculum and lessons or use them independently.

One lesson that a high school English teacher can conduct using National Geographic Education would be introducing the concept of natural selection, or social Darwinism while reading Lord of the Flies. This concept must be taught in order for students to fully understand the themes of the novel. National Geographic Education provides an article about natural selection, as well as a video breaking it down even further. Teachers can pair this resource with their curriculum-based instruction of the text. This will help students learn more about a concept that they might hear again in science or social studies classes, while simultaneously improving their ability to analyze the novel.

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Education Search | National Geographic Society

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Search educational experiences to engage with National Geographic Explorers through live events, free maps, videos, interactives, and other resources.