How each person feels about their cards is individual, just as how a teacher or leader may use the cards in lessons. The Heroes Club cards offer many opportunities. These aren't toys...

Qualities of the Cards

• Simple
  The cards themselves are simple, durable items. They are easy to read, to share, to store, to keep, and to collect.
• Inexpensive
  Each card is relatively inexpensive; the value of the item is in the content and the acknowledgement of work done (if used as a reward).
• Instructional
  The Real American Hero cards teach about a hero and a virtue. They each contain a "Call to Action" question, constructed to be applicable to everybody at any time and in any situation.
• Part of a collection
  There are 25 heroes in the collection. Owning one will inspire each person to a curiosity about and desire to own another. This is a natural incentive to continue in a task to complete all the work. The end result, the whole complete collection, is more than the sum of its parts.

Uses for the Cards

• Incentives and Rewards
  The cards may be used as rewards for successfully completing the work assignments. As such, they are incentives to do the work.
• Recognition
  Rather than a private reward, the cards can be presented publically, giving attention to the successes of each child.
• Call To Action
  The questions on each card ask the reader to consider how to apply the virtue in his or her life. This question is pertinent to everyone and the answers, not being right or wrong, have many, many possibilities. In each new situation a child experiences, the call to action can lead to positive results.
• Activities
  The selection of the cards can be made by the students. Or, trading may be allowed to stimulate sharing and exchange between students. Anytime a lesson is reinforced with activity, the student can deepen his/her knowledge and recall.
• Service Projects
  A group of students may be led to perform a school or community service project based on or similar to the efforts undertaken by the heroes.
• Reminders
  In early Character Education work, simply presenting a list of virtues and teaching the children each one is an important task. The cards each have a virtue (and a hero) listed. Everytime one looks at a card, he or she is reminded about the virtue and the possibility of positive action.
• Honoree Heroes
  Anyone can nominate a hero. (There are "blank" honoree hero cards.) Doing so expands the awareness of virtuous actions in the world around us and invites us to recognize and aspire to being a hero.

If you are not sure how the cards might "work" for you, please contact us and we'll send you one!