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CONSCIOUSNESS LESSON PLAN
This page is a free-shared lesson plan archive for teaching all educational subjects within the context and theme of “Consciousness”. It is purposed for use in community education environments, homeschool environments, traditional schooling environments, or as a supplemental and fun addition to any education program. As part of the complete Education for Life Program, this lesson plan is specifically designed to work in conjunction with the other components: Foundations of Teaching, Curriculum, Teaching Strategies, Learning Tools and Toys, Evaluation Model, and The Ultimate Classroom. If you’d like to learn how all these components work together, click here. Click here for the specifics focused on just using the lesson plans:
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ARTS AND TRADES
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| TEACHING ARTS AND TRADES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The Arts - Make a collage* from materials that represent you, to express your self awareness of who you think you are.
- Create a dance* about discovering self awareness and consciousness.
- Paint* an abstract representation of your own consciousness.
- Make a sculpture* that represents developing consciousness.
- Practice consciousness and mindfulness while baking* 3 types of baked goods you feel would take the most conscious effort, and 3 that you feel would take the least. With every step be mindful of the process. Serve your baked goods to 5 others and discuss your conscious baking experience with them.
- Choose an artistic expression style from the Indigo level and create a piece within that style that represents consciousness. Display and/or share* this piece in a public venue.
- Create a performance art piece* about consciousness. Videotape it and share it on social networks.
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| Trades - Talk to 5 people about what consciousness is and then communicate* back to each of them what they taught you.
- Write a speech* about consciousness and present it to a small group.
- Find 5 trades that you feel especially need conscious people to do them. Write a paragraph* on each trade explaining how consciousness is or is not important to that line of work.
- Write a 3 page paper* on how and/or why or why not people need to apply consciousness to their work, giving at least 5 examples of what happens when consciousness is absent from a trade.
- Use consciousness tools/techniques (i.e. meditation), to define at least 3 possible career courses for you. Write a paper* explaining how you gained the consciousness, what information came to you, and how you can pursue those trades further now that you are aware of your internal connection to them.
- Give a presentation* to others in a trade you are developing in on how consciousness helps you in your daily work.
- As a master in a trade, or by researching and/or interviewing masters, write a tutorial* on how an individual can raise their consciousness while working in your field.
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ENGLISH
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Note: Any language can be substituted for English. The subject is listed here as “English” because that is the primary language of most of the people on the team, and the official language of the country we’re building our initial location in.
| TEACHING ENGLISH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| - Write down* 5-10 words/phrases that help you be more conscious of your surroundings.
- Ask 5 people to give you all the different ways the word consciousness can be used as parts of speech, including examples, and make a presentation* on what you learned. (i.e. noun-consciousness, adverb-consciously, etc.)
- Write an analysis* on 10 articles about consciousness.
- Write and give an informative, and then a persuasive, speech* about consciousness.
- Plan, organize, and lead a group discussion* on consciousness.
- Write a well researched paper* on how the media can use visual formats to raise consciousness both at an individual level and as a society.
- Use advanced skills/knowledge of understanding and interpretation of different types of communication to raise consciousness in your community, and create a how-to guide* to open source with others with the purpose of spreading it to as many people as possible.
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* Please note that anything with an asterisk is just a suggestion. The diversity of options with asterisks are interchangeable and purposed to stimulate your own ideas. Any one of these suggestions could be replaced with a written paper, any form of art project (drawing, painting, music, paper mache, clay, wood, knitting/embroidery, metals, etc. etc.), an experiment, a presentation, a mindmap, a computer program, a web design project, a piece of poetry or a song, an interpretive dance or play, a group project, or anything else. What we feel is most important is that both the Learner and the Teacher agree on an exercise/activity they both feel would be maximally engaging, fun, and effective. If you come up with an idea we haven’t already thought of, please share it with us.
HEALTH
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| TEACHING HEALTH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| - What does health mean to your family/ How does consciousness fit in with a healthy lifestyle? Discuss* this with at least 2 family members.
- Develop a consciousness practice that helps you deal with stress. Practice this for a week and then write an essay* on any changes you notice in how you dealt with and reacted to stress and bounced back from any adversity.
- Do research and ask people about, then write a 3 page report* on consciousness and all aspects of health, including mental, social, emotional, spiritual and physical.
- Focus on your spiritual health and develop a consciousness regime to improve yourself in the areas listed in the green section of the Health molecule. Record your daily practices in a chart* stating what the practice and include this in a presentation* you create about how you felt before and after.
- Create an open share social media project* (i.e. podcast, youtube video) about improving mental health through consciousness.
- Write a well researched and documented thesis* on the theme ‘unconditional love and consciousness’.
- Write a book* about consciousness and health. Include at least one chapter for each of the four primary areas of Health, and explain how consciousness impacts health for an individual and for the planet.
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* Please note that anything with an asterisk is just a suggestion. The diversity of options with asterisks are interchangeable and purposed to stimulate your own ideas. Any one of these suggestions could be replaced with a written paper, any form of art project (drawing, painting, music, paper mache, clay, wood, knitting/embroidery, metals, etc. etc.), an experiment, a presentation, a mindmap, a computer program, a web design project, a piece of poetry or a song, an interpretive dance or play, a group project, or anything else. What we feel is most important is that both the Learner and the Teacher agree on an exercise/activity they both feel would be maximally engaging, fun, and effective. If you come up with an idea we haven’t already thought of, please share it with us.
MATH
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| TEACHING MATH WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| - Do a consciousness raising activity* that requires intentional breathing by counting at least 30 breaths out loud during the exhale phase. Then repeat the activity, this time counting in reverse. Discuss* your experience and what, if any, difference this brought to your awareness of your breathing.
- Gain an understanding of the concept of angles by creating a Sierpinski triangle*. While designing the triangles for this fractal, practice consciously deciding how each triangle will look.
- Develop an understanding of statistical variables by conducting a self study on consciousness raising activities. Choose an activity (such as meditation) and then choose “distraction” variables such as music, loud noise, or silence. Record the statistics of how often the variable affected your consciousness activity. Create 3 formats* of visual mathematical representations of your results.
- Compare a group of people who do consciousness raising activities with a group that doesn’t. Hypothesize on 5-10 possible correlations you believe will be true about each group in comparison to each other, test the differences/conclusions, and then graph* and share* your results.
- Write a paper* arguing how consciousness either is or is not critical in the field of mathematics and open share your finished work.
- Use mathematics in project planning and project management. Write a reflection paper* on how your consciousness affected your use of the applied math.
- Use your consciousness to take a bullet from the http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/math/#math violet section math molecule and develop* it as far as you can.
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SCIENCE
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| TEACHING SCIENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Life Sciences - Choose an insect, animal or plant that you have access to observe. Study it for 5 days and then determine 3 reasons you feel it either does or does not display consciousness. Discuss* your observations with 3 other people.
- Read 2 books about extinction. Write a short paper* on how you believe consciousness does or does not affect extinction.
- Read 5 articles on producers, consumers and decomposers, and write a hypothesis* relating what you learned either to levels of consciousness or to conscious or unconscious behavior.
- Choose a http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/science/#green life sciences topic from the science molecule and create an experiment that you believe could be influenced by consciousness. Perform the experiment and write a paper* on the influence of consciousness on the experiment and the results.
- Find at least 3 methods for classification of living things. Write a paper* on each of these systems and how you believe consciousness did or did not influence the classification system. Then create your own classification system with consciousness as the main basis for categorization.
- Write a theorem and paper* about using consciousness to recognize the usefulness and limitations of models and theories as scientific representations of reality in relation to one of the http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/science/#indigo level Life Science topics.
- Create, execute, and write a scientifically valid dissertation* or published research study relating consciousness to an established life science field, or “proving” how to scientifically measure consciousness in life forms.
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| Physical Sciences - Consciously observe five common objects and the materials they are made from. Define* what these materials are and what they can be used for.
- Create and run a simple experiment* about light that relates consciousness to the concepts of light and dark. Share* your experiment and the results.
- Develop a testable question* regarding consciousness and one of the http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/science/#yellow in the Physical Science molecule. Test the question and devise a scientific way to show* your test and your results.
- Read about gravity from 3 opposing resources. Determine in each case whether evidence is consistent with the proposed explanation of what gravity is. Use your consciousness combined with scientifically validated facts to write* about your findings.
- Choose a bullet from the http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/science/#blue of the Physical Science molecule and conduct a study in this field. Graph* your results twice: once including a chart reflecting consciousness while conducting the research and another while mindlessly conducting the research or when the experiment happens without an observer. Compare and contrast your results and write a scientifically valid report* about your experiment, process, and results.
- Conduct an experiment on Reaction Time and consciousness and create a show* about your project and results.
- Write a book* about consciousness and physics.
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| Earth Sciences - Take a walk outside with someone and look at the earth components around you. Do a consciousness raising activity* focused on or using at least one of earth’s natural elements.
- Talk* about how the earth’s positions creates seasons for two minutes. Then, determine a way you could more consciously talk about the same topic, and execute your idea, and then talk about the topic again for two minutes to the same person/people. Have them share with you the differences they noticed between your 2 talks. (Example way to become more conscious: Read a book how this occurs and compare your original ideas to the true facts.)
- Choose a cycle or system from the http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/science/#yellow Earth Sciences and write a paper* about it, focusing on your belief and any evidence of to what extent consciousness of individuals or groups can/has/does/does not influence that cycle or system.
- Define “Energy in the Earth System”. Write a 3 to 5 page paper* on if and how consciousness can/has/does/does not influence Energy in the Earth System.
- Explore any relationships between global consciousness and the solar system. Write a 10 page report* on your findings, including theories and any validated scientific information.
- Investigate natural disasters and write an open source booklet* guiding the readers how to “use consciousness” to better survive these unexpected events.
- Develop a curriculum* to teach both scientifically validated and theorized connections between consciousness and one of the sciences listed in the violet section of the science molecule.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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| TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| - Create a collage* of the qualities you think are important in a friend. Learn and use a conscious/mindfulness method to come up with these adjectives.
- Find 5 different people in your local community and discuss* what stress is, how to cope with it, and how consciousness relates to this.
- Read in 5 resources what culture is. Write an essay* about the primary culture you live in and focusing on consciousness within your culture. Include a paragraph that compares the consciousness of the culture you are in with another culture you are familiar with.
- Write a 10 page paper* on the believed and proven effects consciousness has on taking an individual and a group from chaos to harmony.
- Study the American Constitution. Create a multi-media presentation* about how consciousness played a part in the development and implementation of the Constitution. Include a section about the consciousness of the US and its government today, and the effects that would have if the same task were to be attempted today.
- Record a podcast* about “The Consciousness of Respecting all Things”.
- Choose a subject from the http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/social-sciences/#violet and write a textbook* on individual and group consciousness as it relates to the field you choose.
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| Foreign Languages (Each of the following is to be completed in the foreign language(s) being studied) - Learn and practice* words for different consciousness related concepts.
- Read & write* with words for consciousness related concepts.
- Explore* ‘consciousness’ in fiction.
- Explore & create* different types of literature in relation to consciousness.
- Compose* a new piece of literature about consciousness.
- Explore* the complete history of and writings about consciousness words.
- Write a dissertation level paper* on consciousness.
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TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
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| TEACHING TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Technology - Discuss* with 3 people ideas of how technology and machines used in daily living can help raise consciousness.
- With the help and permission of a grown up, choose something to put together and something to take apart. Practice consciousness while doing these activities.
- Use the internet as a resource and find 6-10 websites about ‘raising consciousness’, at least two should be for it and at least two should be against/debunking it. Write* a list of these websites and whether and to what extent you believe they help raise consciousness.
- Choose a http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/technology-and-innovation/#green and develop and execute a 10+ sep plan for consciously pursuing skills* that advance your personal knowledge in that field.
- Create a website or digital model to show how consciousness impacts system development. Choose 3 of the systems in the blue level and explain how improvements in these systems enhances the consciousness of the people participating in that system.
- Create an app* that raises global consciousness and make it available on as large a scale as possible.
- Using technology, develop a new consciousness raising system* that the masses can easily partake in.
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| Innovation - Practice* a consciousness activity, such as meditation, that you think will help you learn about and understand awareness. Talk about your experience and what you liked about it.
- Practice your creativity skills by using your consciousness to develop and share* a new consciousness raising activity.
- Study 5 different consciousness raising activities including breathing, centering and relaxation techniques. Develop your own technique or combination* and teach 5 others how to use your unique tool to raise their consciousness.
- Read three resources on ‘systems strategies’ and then develop and begin to use a personal system strategy* to raise your consciousness and improve your learning skills. Write a 3 page paper about your strategy and results.
- Choose a system from the blue section of Innovation. Prepare a speech about applying consciousness within that system. Present the speech* to professionals in that field.
- Study a group of innovators. Create an open source multi-media presentation* about how these creative thinkers applied consciousness to create their new ideas. Get your presentation to ‘go viral’.
- Develop a line of consciousness based motivational and inspirational products, services, and/or brands* that empower millions of people to change their lives.
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VALUES
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| TEACHING VALUES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| - Create a way to play* with at least 2 other friends, in a way that involves consciousness.
- Design a self expression project* that you feel reflects your consciousness.
- Choose 5 values from the yellow level for each value and write a paragraph* on how consciousness is an important part of developing that value.
- Read 10 books/essays/articles on joy and contentment. Write a 5+ page essay* on what you learned and how consciousness influences your own joy and contentment.
- Create a program* that teaches honesty, or another value you feel is most needed in your community, through consciousness. Run the program in your community.
- Write a hypothesis based on individual consciousness and interpersonal interactions as they relate to sensuality. Perform a study to prove your idea and publish* your results about consciousness and sensuality via an open share website.
- Write and produce a video* for a highly viewed social media channel about consciousness and values.
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