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Participants learn what it is like to be a refugee through pictures, video, and stories. They build empathy and do an activity that simulates choices refugees must make.
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Unit: Refugees: Finding a Place
Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger around the World
Grades:
9
10
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Learners distinguish between the many different approaches to addressing hunger by looking at governmental versus nonprofit programs. They will describe the importance of philanthropic actions in solving the problems of hunger in the world.
Unit: Reporting on an Ideal World
Grades:
9
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Learners envision an ideal world characterized by principles of justice, kindness, peace, and belonging. They write articles for a fictitious newspaper called USA Tomorrow that reports on the ideal world. They will reflect in writing about one step they can take to make an...
Unit: Forced to Flee and Find a New Home
Grades:
6
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Young people investigate, plan, and facilitate a service-learning project that benefits refugees in their community.
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Unit: Building a Community Garden Santuary
Grades:
3
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5
When the site is selected, they make a final plan for what plants to put into the garden based on soil, location, and availability. They make a plan to seek donations of plants or funds for their garden.
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Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
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8
Learners look at different scenarios and explore the pros and cons of acting with integrity when no one is watching.
Unit: Our Land
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Grades:
K
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In this lesson, young people learn the difference between private and public resources and identify areas that are called commons. They discuss whose responsibility it is to take care of those areas and how they are managed.
Unit: Sowing the Seeds of Community
Grades:
6
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8
The youth read the book Seedfolks and discuss the diverse characters and their individual contributions to a community garden. While learning about the thirteen individuals in the story, they identify their character, heritage, motivations, and contributions to nourishing...
Unit: Cartoons of a Civil Society
Grades:
9
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Reviewing current political cartoons related to justice, equity, and racism, learners identify how language and humor act as a form of social action. They create their own cartoons or statement promoting or showing the damage of one of these themes.
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
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Learners write an acrostic poem about Dr. King's life and work, focusing particularly on his perseverance.