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Learners identify ways to use advocacy to promote change.
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Unit: Animals in Sports and Entertainment
Unit: Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk
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Learners explore what it means for responsible citizens to demonstrate civic virtues of justice, kindness, peace, generosity, and inclusion.
Unit: Community Philanthropy
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We define civic virtue and give examples of ways to exhibit civic virtue for the common good.
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Create a past, present, and future timeline of personal philanthropy.
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World
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This lesson raises awareness of water quality and responsible management of water resources around the world. We explore the issue of safe water and the responsibilities of a global citizen to assure all people have safe drinking water.
Unit: Philanthropy—Essential to a Democratic Society
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Learners recognize the value of nonprofit organizations and identify how nonprofits meet citizen needs when government can't.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
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Students experience empathy for people who are homeless by listening to a song and completing the “I Am’ poem assignment.
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Students explore how charity and philanthropy address hunger and poverty.
Unit: We ARE the Government
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Learners read and reflect on the meaning of democracy. They discuss and explore examples of participatory democracy in history. They read quotes from Founding Fathers and relate them to philanthropy and civic engagement.
Unit: Philanthropic Literature
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Fairy tales are great stories for helping young people work out complicated moral issues in a make-believe context. Found in countries all around the world, the same story plays out in different contexts. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters is a "Cinderella" story from Africa in which kindness...