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Grades:
K
1
2
To guide children to understand that being in a group requires working together, getting along, resolving conflicts, and having fun together.
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Unit: We Can All Do Our Share
Unit: Bullying Prevention Plan
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
In this lesson, learners explore and address the following questions: Who are the minority voices of the past and how has the civil society sector stepped in to protect their rights? What actions were effective? What public policies are in place to protect them? Who are the bullied today and...
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students research the practices of healthy exercise. They identify a topic related to good nutrition and personal health and write 3-5 facts to share with the class. They identify nonprofits that work to address related health needs and contact them by phone to ask questions.
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Unit: Rosa Parks
Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
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: Grow Involved 6-8
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Young people will compare and contrast the philosophies and work of Dr. King and Gandhi. They will determine a service they can provide to promote peace and nonviolence.
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
To have students partner with a nonprofit organization to design and complete a service-learning project for that organization.
In the third trimester of the Urban EdVenture course, students begin work on the final project in collaboration with their homeroom teachers. Each...
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Unit: Roots of Philanthropy (Teen)
Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Youth Activity: Young people watch a video of people telling what they think "philanthropy" means. Then they conduct their own interviews to gather information about the understanding of the concept of philanthropy.
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Unit: Character Education: Caring (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the learners discuss a quote about gratitude and consider the relationship between caring and gratitude.
Unit: Humans and Nature Flourishing Together
Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Through analyzing a Ted Talk by Robin Wall Kimmerer, participants develop their understanding of what it means to respond with gratitude to the gifts from the Earth. Participants expand their awareness of the interdependent relationship between humans and nature. Kimmerer motivates and...
Unit: Philanthropy—Essential to a Democratic Society
Grades:
9
10
11
12
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.