Lesson plans and activities that encourage family interaction!
Bringing Humanism Home is a collection of flexible, family-centered lesson plans designed to help children and caregivers explore empathy, curiosity, critical thinking, community, and ethical living together.
Through simple activities, thoughtful conversations, stories, media, and hands-on learning experiences, families can weave humanist values into everyday life in meaningful and approachable ways.
The lessons are intentionally designed to be adaptable and easy to use—whether your are looking for quick discussion at the dinner table, a deeper homeschool enrichment activity, or resources for a community learning group.
Older children and teens may enjoy exploring many of the activities independently, while younger children will benefit from the guidance and shared participation of a parent, caregiver, or educator.
Brining Humanist Homes is especially valuable for:
- secular and inclusive homeschooling families
- parents seeking values-based learning without dogma
- ethical educators and community groups
- humanist and interfaith family programs
- anyone looking to encourage compassion, reflection, and global awareness in children
Rather than following a rigid curriculum model, Bringing Humanist Home encourages shared learning, conversation, creativity, and exploration at a pace that works for your family and community.
We hope these lessons inspire meaning, connections, thoughtful questions, and joyful learning together.
Read more about the Bringing Humanism Home curriculum.
Increments of Expansion (5 stages):
| Self to Self | Self to Others | Self to Community | Self to Environment | Self to the Future |
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| Involves an individual’s free and disciplined search for personal truth, meaning, and purpose for life.  It involves developing a positive self-concept. | Involves respect for the worth and dignity of other individuals and their truths demonstrating the use of the democratic process and developing a sense of reciprocity. | Involves the search for insights from great prophets, thinkers, and teachers of every age and tradition in developing social contracts. | Involves developing respect for all life and a sense of responsibility for the earth and its resources now and for the future. | Involves developing oneself as a citizen of the world, striving for a world community of love, reason, justice and peace. |
