Cesar E. Chavez Day Elementary School Toolkit: January-March 2009

The Caesar E. Chavez Campaign curriculum comprises a series of 10 lessons which guide students through learning about Caesar's life and work, and connecting his values to their own work by stepping up to take action on a social justice issue in their community. Each day's lesson focuses on one of the core values identified as central to Caesar's life. Students learn about and reflect on the identified value, then work to incorporate those ideals into their own life as they take steps to create a more just society in the world around them. The Campaign begins by having students create a vision for their world, then leads them through a process of creating an artistic product which will serve as a communication tool to share their vision as they seek to inspire others to join their work. Following the sequence of 10 lessons, students will work through the Chavez Campaign Action Plan to design and implement a service-learning project which moves them toward creating their vision in a concrete way.