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Learners define respect and explore the meaning of self-respect and respect for others. They explore the relationships between respect and prejudice, bias, racism and stereotype.
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Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 6)
Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
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The learners build on their understanding, seeking actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
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The classroom is matched up with another classroom (or any group of people) in the country or the world. The students communicate by letter or e-mail and compare characteristics of place such as methods of transportation, weather, resources, and culture. Students will eventually work with their...
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
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Students identify emergency food assistance programs and stereotypes surrounding hunger.
Unit: Sharing and Caring Across Generations
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Through storytelling, children recognize that their actions and behaviors have an impact and become memories for future generations.
Unit: Generosity of Spirit Folktales
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The featured folktales explore themes of helping people make judgments of integrity in different situations.
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As demonstrated in these folktales, even the smallest things, when shared, can be examples of philanthropy.
Unit: Surviving the Depression
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Participants discuss and analyze the solutions implemented by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The role that philanthropy played in helping to end the Great Depression will be central to the discussion.
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Young people identify examples of philanthropy in a classic piece of literature. Note: One handout has Biblical applications of the storyline.
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Unit: Early American Influences
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We look at the Society of Friends/Quakers and describe how this group promoted the common good. The Quakers pushed for religious freedom and freedom of choice, which are Core Democratic Values. As a group, they formed organizations to promote social change in the areas of slavery,...
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