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Using provided evaluation or reflection forms, share details about the service and its impact. A demonstration to an interested audience is a great way to show details of the need and service and celebrate relationships and impact.
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Unit: What Is a Youth Advisory Committee?
Unit: Do Not Stand Idly By (Private-Religious)
Grades:
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Young people read about Jewish role models who partake in tikkun olam. They reflect on how they can use their behavior as a model for their own philanthropy to perfect the world.
Unit: Surviving the Depression
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Using primary source images and interviews, participants learn about life and economics during the Great Depression and how different sectors of society contributed to bringing the country out of this dark period.
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Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 6)
Grades:
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Learners may use either journaling or role-playing to reflect on the benefits to the community of truthfulness and straightforward actions. They analyze traits and actions of someone who has built a "good reputation."
Unit: Cultural Diversity in Service
Grades:
9
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Using the radio broadcast "This I Believe" as a model, learners create visual or audio statements of their beliefs about volunteering and serving. Each presentation communicates the culture, experiences, and motivations that influence the learner's attitude about service. After presenting...
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
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8
Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
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For students to choose a cause to which they have a personal connection and write letters to advocate for change.
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Unit: Road Less Traveled
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Grades:
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We compare and contrast the beliefs of the three cultures explored in lessons 1-4 to one's own family traditions - similarities and differences.
Unit: Rosa Parks
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Grades:
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Rosa Parks’s acts of philanthropy brought a community of people together for the common good and resulted in major social change in her community and in the nation. Young people identify the relationship between individual rights, justice, equality, and community responsibility.
Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
Grades:
6
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This lesson examines the connections between the five basic guaranteed rights in the Bill of Rights and their corresponding responsibilities. Participants explore the natual consequences of fulfilling, or not fulfilling, responsibilities connected to their rights.