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The UUA website has a wealth of free downloadable curricula, covering the lifespan from kindergarten to Adult. There are 11 different curricula for children in grades Kindergarten through 6. (Plus more for youth and adults) You can download; edit and save your edited version; and email lesson plans to your teachers. This is an amazing free resource. Shared by Peggy Goetz

Is a form of project based learning in which academic goals are accomplished through community service. Service learning develops citizenship, responsibility, and many other positive character virtues, making it possibly the most powerful character education program you can implement. Here's how you can do it.

For Coming of Age and even youth groups, this resource is quite extensive! There are workbooks that you can download -- they seem to me to be great resources for educators in ethics, and could be well used by the older children in EC programs. They outline any "ethical issue" and ethics as expressed from various cultural and intellectual voices throughout human history. Shared by Audrey Kindred

Sixty-five years ago, the verdicts were delivered at the first Nuremberg trial. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Albert Rose Days of Remembrance, May 1-8, 2011 Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. Holocaust remembrance week is April 15-22, 2012.

Model and lessons for human rights education focused around personal identity, awareness, issue recognition, action development and social action. Lessons include: Standing Up to Bullying Living in the Caste System Child Labor on Cocoa Farms in West Africa What Makes a Healthy Neighborhood Education: A Human Right Hunger and Malnutrition Poverty in Kibera, Kenya Circus Union Water Museum Project: Water as a Human Right

If you sign up for this service, you get daily special offers for your area. When people buy the offers (usually half off), they decide what charity a portion of proceeds go to. Plan a Sunday School outing to one of the places, and you build community while raising money for your Sunday School or another cause of your choice. Offers I've used include half off bowling, half off Art places for kids..

Films and lesson plans about diverse families, gender, bullying, same-sex marriage, and more! Their mission is to "...move individuals and communities to take action for a more just world." Some films are available FREE!