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The learners choose a person of courage to honor on a commemorative "postage stamp."
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Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 6)
Unit: Drumming from the Heart
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The children visit a local preschool or retirement facility of their choosing to read aloud a book they wrote and illustrated about generous giving. They share a drumming experience and give the drums and books as gifts.
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
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To help students understand how to use their voices to advocate for causes about which they care.
Unit: We Can All Do Our Share
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The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate that being in a group (or community) requires cooperation, working together, getting along, and resolving conflicts. The activity enables the children to accomplish this while having fun at the same time.
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Participants learn about different types of foundations and how they work toward improving the common good.
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Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
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8
In this lesson, learners describe what a group looks like that has a high level of trust with each other.
Unit: Wall of Philanthropists
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Grades:
6
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After reading about historical figures who have taken philanthropic action related to justice, youth write a narrative about a more recent (young) philanthropist who took action for social justice.
Unit: Humans and Nature Flourishing Together
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6
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Using the inspiration of Amanda Gorman’s poem “Earthrise,” participants consider what it means to act in ways that honor the Earth. Individuals identify and publicly commit to take action that works to help humans and nature flourish together.
Unit: Early American Influences
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3
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5
Benjamin Franklin's work was in service to making a better world, and he influenced the nonprofit sector. His book, Poor Richards Almanack, makes connections to the common good through personal virtue and actions. The participants choose quotes to create posters that communicate...
Unit: Telling Our Stories of Giving
Grades:
6
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Students learn effective techniques and complete prewriting activities for writing a persuasive essay. As a culmination of the unit, students choose one of the three styles of writing--news article, personal narrative, or persuasive essay--to write, edit, and publish about their experience with...