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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students organize and implement a school-based recycling plan based on research and interests of the group.
This adaptable one-period lesson plan includes a simple and powerful service project for Earth Day. The ...
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Unit: Lunchroom Recycling Plan
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
To accomplish a goal together through the use of teamwork skills, problem solving, risk taking and perseverance.
Turnstile is a problem solving activity that gets many students out of their comfort zone. Although it looks like a simple jump rope activity...
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To create multi-media iBooks with PSAs (public service announcements) that explore and raise awareness about (local or global) issues (such as homelessness, water pollution, education, or hunger) that can be addressed by philanthropy.
Unit: Community Health and Safety
Grades:
3
4
5
Using a brainstormed list of health and safety issue areas, participants design and implement a survey. They poll a group of friends and family to determine what health and safety issues are of greatest concern in their community.
Unit: Art for the Common Good—Junkanoo!
Grades:
6
7
8
The groups wear their headdresses and perform a Junkanoo-like parade first internally and then to entertain a group that needs cheering or to teach about cooperation and respect for cultural expressions.
Unit: The Power of Children
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Students evaluate their learning about philanthropy and the process of selecting a service-learning project. They write a guided reflection on their experience.
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Unit: Cinderella Stories
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Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson introduces the characteristics of fairy tales as a genre. The children explore positive and negative character traits and universal themes in the story of Cinderella. The service plan is introduced in this lesson and carried out over the next weeks.
Unit: Living History-An Intergenerational Philanthropy Project
Grades:
3
4
5
Young people prepare for their visit to the retirement home by writing an autobiography. They work together to come up with questions to ask their senior friends.
Unit: Hurricane Katrina / Great Hanshin-Awaji Disaster Collaboration
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson introduces the learner to some of the resources--individual, organizational (for profit and non profit), and governmental-- available to provide forewarning/alert, preparedness programs, as well as relief during and in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Unit: We Are Divine Creations (Tolerance) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
It is obvious that our bodies require proper nutrition. It is less obvious that our souls and imaginations require sustenance as well. This lesson is intended as nutrition for the spirit. It is intended to demonstrate ways that people utilize their time, their talent and their treasure to...
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