Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners use economic thinking to determine how to allocate their scarce resources for community service.
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Unit: Encouraging Community Engagement
Unit: Stitch in Time for the Common Good
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners explore the contributions and recommendations of Benjamin Franklin as a person who engaged in active citizenship.
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Unit: My Water, Our Water
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Grades:
3
4
5
Unit: Power and Race in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Grades:
6
7
8
Using award-winning literature, the learners describe and analyze racism in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The readers identify the injustices in the community as well as the values and self-respect that build community relationships and strength.
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The youth compare and contrast the uses and aesthetics of dirt and pavement groundcover. They define permeable and impermeable ground surfaces and discuss the merits of each in relationship to the environment.
Unit: Diet and the Environment
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
The learner develops an awareness of alternative, earth-friendly ways to eat. This lesson encourages the learners to evaluate how their food choices affect the environment. Youth identify ways organic and processed foods contribute to their health as well as the health of our world.
Unit: Majority Rule Minority Rights
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Practice making a decision using principles of majority rule and minority rights.
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore the meanings of community and healthy. While moving around the classroom in an organized game, they have conversations about healthy communities and healthy choices for themselves.
Unit: Mighty Pens: Writers for Positive Change
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Through persuasive writing, young people build awareness and invite action for change about an issue. Typical writing forms may include essays, editorials, feature articles, or speeches.
Unit: Power to the People through Action
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Participants cite philanthropic historical events on a timeline. They focus on events in which the nonprofit sector was used to make positive changes in society.
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