Neighborhood Good

Overview

Welcome to the neighborhood! We’ve got a lot of great people and more than a few challenges. Can your students devise solutions that reflect the community's needs and resources?

Challenge your students to solve familiar problems and discover how they can impact their community by playing Neighborhood Good. Students will select issues within a fictional community that resonates with them, speak with neighbors to better understand the issue, and develop a plan of action. Students can address three different challenges or revisit a challenge to try different solutions.

Show your students how civic engagement works as they discover the level of impact they can make.

Teacher Tips

The Neighborhood Good Extension Pack includes activities and a mini quiz that give the game context and reinforce and assess its concepts. Extension Packs include a downloadable teacher lesson plan, assignable student handout, and instructive Google Slides. Google Slides can be used on projectors or interactive whiteboards.

Multilingual and English learners (ELs/MLs) and Spanish-speaking students: This game offers a decision-support tool, an English voiceover, a contextualized glossary, and a Spanish-language version.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Defense Education Program (NDEP) for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education, Outreach, and Workforce Initiative Programs under Grant No. HQ0034-21-S-F001. The views expressed in written materials or publications, and/or made by speakers, moderators, and presenters, do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Defense nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.