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In this lesson, the learners define the concept of responsibility through personal reflection and discussion.
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Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 8)
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
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8
Learners reflect on their attitude about and responsibility for making fair choices about spending. They use the literary device of metaphor to express their thoughts.
Unit: The Power of Children
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Students determine which community need they want to address with a service project. Once a priority need has been determined, they research related nonprofit organizations with a student-generated list of questions.
Unit: Philanthropy and You
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The purpose of this lesson is to examine the tradition of giving and sharing in Indigenous communities and to learn about philanthropy in other cultures.
Unit: Encouraging Community Engagement
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Learners use economic thinking to determine how to allocate their scarce resources for community service.
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Unit: Women of the Industrial Era
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6
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This lesson gives an overview of the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution, and the major changes to how people live and work. Young people learn about the key inventions and changes that shifted focus from people and their skills to big machines and systems of mass production. The systems...
Unit: Opening Our Hearts and Hands to Others (Tzedakah)
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3
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5
In this lesson, the students are empowered to explore charities related to their own interests and make an impact of their own. Students research different charitable organizations and choose one to represent in a creative way at a tzedakah fair. The students invite family and community...
Unit: Our Playful Community
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Young people play with other children, showing that trust, collaboration, and thinking of the good of all are part of fun group activities.
Unit: Majority Rule Minority Rights
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Practice making a decision using principles of majority rule and minority rights.
Unit: Roots of Philanthropy (Elementary)
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Youth Activity: Participants discover how their time can equal dollars to help their community. See the handout for supplemental faith-based discussion questions.
“My call tonight is for every American to commit at least two years, or 4,000 hours, over the rest of your lifetime...
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