In a Year 7 (grade 6) Humanities unit, redesigned with a local/global citizenship foundation, conflict and cooperation stopped feeling like opposites. Students met these ideas in the unit’s source material, tracked them across time, tested their own assumptions, listened to real people, and named one concrete way to build a bridge in their own community. The result: layers of real impact for learners and community members.

After mapping what was most important for students to know and care about in a Year 5 (Grade 4) unit about Ancient Egypt, a powerful guiding question for the unit emerged: How does power shape the world? Check out what happened and shifted for students and educators during this redesigned learning experience.