Grades:
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Learners identify ways to use advocacy to promote change.
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Unit: Animals in Sports and Entertainment
Unit: Encouraging Community Engagement
Grades:
9
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Learners use economic thinking to determine how to allocate their scarce resources for community service.
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Unit: Majority Rule Minority Rights
Grades:
9
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Practice making a decision using principles of majority rule and minority rights.
Unit: Philanthropy—Essential to a Democratic Society
Grades:
9
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Students will learn the fundamental principles of parliamentary procedure and use the procedure to create a plan for a service project in the community.
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Grades:
9
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Learners will define government and describe a democratic republic with a Constitution. They identify the role of government at all levels - national, state, and local and talk about what young people can do to have a voice.
Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
Grades:
6
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This lesson clarifies that true rights are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Participants discuss the importance of protecting these rights, and if and when it is ever appropriate to limit rights. We learn that one role of nonprofits is to preserve and promote guaranteed rights.
Unit: Community Health and Safety
Grades:
3
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The group collaborates to plan, carry out, and reflect on an authentic service project that meets the health and safety needs of the community. This is based on the needs assessment conducted through surveying community members in previous lessons.
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
Many people have a difficult time distinguishing between acts of kindness and acts of philanthropy. Using the definition of philanthropy from the “Defining Philanthropy” lesson, youth will examine various situations and decide which ones are acts of philanthropy. They may discover...
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Unit: What Is a Youth Advisory Committee?
Grades:
3
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The group reviews the list of issues and ways to take action, including those gathered with their families. They narrow the list through consensus. They invite a local Community Foundation Youth Advisory Committee member to talk about their work and grant process.
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Grades:
6
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We examine the Core Values of American Democracy and discuss their importance and where we are exposed to them and practice them throughout life.
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