Grades:
6
7
8
Learners brainstorm universal obstacles to completing tasks and meeting goals.
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
Unit: Souperservice Kids
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Grades:
K
1
2
The entire family is invited to a family night to assemble dried soup kits to donate to a local food pantry. They may use the dehydrated vegetables from lesson one and other ingredients or contact a food-packing organization that provides the ingredients, and you provide the volunteers. ...
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World
Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
5
Children learn about the issues of plastic in the ocean. They learn the effects of plastic garbage on the environment, including the lives of animals.
Subjects
Unit: Animals in Sports and Entertainment
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners identify ways to use advocacy to promote change.
Unit: Respecting the Environment (Private-Religious)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson will teach the basic ideas of Shemittah and the practical reasons behind the commandment and the learners will understand the connection between respecting the Earth and respecting themselves.
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
7
8
To produce paintings or drawings that represent their “Dream of Peace” and that are submitted to an art competition.
A teacher using this lesson can look for art competitions locally or nationally that are sponsored by a museum, organization, or school district; a teacher might...
Unit: Civil War Philanthropy
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Grades:
6
7
8
Young people read about the talents and interests of people who took action for the common good during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The youth identify some of their own talents and match them to nonprofit organizations they can support today.
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To help students understand the legal aspects of a 501(c)(3) organization and how they differ from other organizations.
Subjects
Unit: What Is a Youth Advisory Committee?
Grades:
3
4
5
Together, the participants write a grant proposal to request funds to complete an identified service project.
Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger around the World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners distinguish between the many different approaches to addressing hunger by looking at governmental versus nonprofit programs. They will describe the importance of philanthropic actions in solving the problems of hunger in the world.