Grades:
3
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5
Using a traditional Jewish text as its basis, this lesson emphasizes the importance of sharing in a relationship.
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Unit: Teaching Tolerance (Private-Religious)
Unit: Encouraging Community Engagement
Grades:
9
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11
12
Learners use economic thinking to determine how to allocate their scarce resources for community service.
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Unit: Exploring Nonprofit Career Opportunities
Grades:
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Learners explore the variety of job opportunities available in the nonprofit sector, many of which may use their skills and interests. In the nonprofit sector, the work is meaningful because it focuses on a mission to make change for the better.
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Unit: Power to the People through Action
Grades:
9
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We define the nonprofit, or third, sector and explain why it is important as an alternative power structure.
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Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
Grades:
6
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8
This lesson emphasizes the importance of voluntary action for the common good based upon student understanding of one's rights and the corresponding responsibility to protect them.
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Unit: Money and the Common Good
Grades:
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Every day, we make choices about what to eat based on our health and what we like and can afford. As global citizens who care about the good of all, we can also be aware of making food choices based on our impact on an interconnected system.
Grades:
6
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Young people discuss and debate the issues related to ethical consumerism and the common good, and consider how their spending habits reflect their values.
Unit: One Person's Trash
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Grades:
6
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The learners identify a common area where trash accumulates and plan a clean-up project.
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Unit: Watershed S.O.S.
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Grades:
6
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8
In this lesson, participants join a playful group called Poseidon's Protectors who are sworn to protect the watershed and oceans. They write a letter to Poseidon telling about their 3-part plan to protect.
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Unit: Small Steps; Great Journeys
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Small personal actions can be first steps in a life of service and civic engagement. Voting and civic action are small examples of responsible citizenship. Advocating for what we value is a demonstration of a citizen's rights.
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