Students will investigate key local and national nonprofit organizations by researching their histories, services, and target populations.

Students will distinguish the nonprofit sector from the for-profit sector.

Students will examine the role and impact of nonprofit organizations within their community and prepare to interview representatives.

Students will interview a representative from a local nonprofit organization and share the learned information with the class.

Learners talk about the uses of water and understand its importance to our world.

After reading two stories, learners compare and contrast the attitudes, actions, and impact of the main characters. They reflect on some essential questions: What does it mean to be a philanthropist? What does it mean to be an environmentalist? What does it mean to be a good steward of the earth?

Rosa Parks’s acts of philanthropy brought a community of people together for the common good and resulted in major social change in her community and in the nation. Young people identify the relationship between individual rights, justice, equality, and community responsibility.

Artists contribute to the common good by sharing their talents. The nonprofit sector supports artists with funding, museums, and attention or education. We learn how artists' work is supported by philanthropy and nonproft organizations that assure we have access to art. Young people may create art in the form of poetry or a picture to brighten someone's day.

Young people learn about the contributions made by Benjamin Franklin to the common good. They categorize his accomplishments in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors. They select a quote from Franklin that they would like to apply to their own lives.

The young people define philanthropy and identify philanthropic activities.