Community & Belonging

Understanding the groups one belongs to — family, class, neighborhood, culture — and how communities are built and sustained.

K–12 objective ladder

• K D02.S3.K.01 Name a community they belong to and one thing people do together in it.
• 1 D02.S3.01.01 Name several communities they belong to, such as family, class, and neighborhood.
• 1 D02.S3.01.02 Describe one thing each community does together and one way they help out.
• 2 D02.S3.02.01 Explain what makes a group feel welcoming and inclusive to everyone in it.
• 2 D02.S3.02.02 Describe a community tradition or celebration and what it means to the group.
• 3 D02.S3.03.01 Compare their own community with a community in a different place or culture.
• 3 D02.S3.03.02 Explain how rules and routines help a community work fairly for everyone.
• 4 D02.S3.04.01 Identify a role they can play in their class or neighborhood community and carry it out.
• 4 D02.S3.04.02 Describe how communities welcome newcomers and why belonging matters.
• 5 D02.S3.05.01 Explain how communities are built through shared work, symbols, and stories.
• 5 D02.S3.05.02 Investigate how people in a community meet shared needs such as food, safety, and learning.
• 6 D02.S3.06.01 Analyze how belonging can include some people and exclude others, and why that happens.
• 6 D02.S3.06.02 Describe how identity, such as culture, language, and ability, shapes belonging.
• 7 D02.S3.07.01 Examine how online and offline communities differ and how people belong in each.
• 7 D02.S3.07.02 Explain how communities change over time and why change can be both hard and good.
• 8 D02.S3.08.01 Analyze how power and resources are shared within a community and who is left out.
• 8 D02.S3.08.02 Take part in strengthening belonging in their school or local community.
• 9 D02.S3.09.01 Compare forms of community across cultures, including chosen families and mutual-aid networks.
• 9 D02.S3.09.02 Analyze how nationalism, exclusion, and in-group loyalty can both build and limit community.
• 10 D02.S3.10.01 Evaluate how technology and media create and transform communities and belonging.
• 10 D02.S3.10.02 Explain how local communities connect to regional, national, and global ones.
• 11 D02.S3.11.01 Analyze what makes communities resilient, inclusive, and just, using historical and contemporary examples.
• 11 D02.S3.11.02 Envision and plan a contribution that strengthens belonging in a community they care about.
• 12 D02.S3.12.01 Articulate their own place within nested communities, from family to the global community of all life.
• 12 D02.S3.12.02 Weigh belonging, solidarity, and collective responsibility in deciding how to act for the common good.

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