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Grades:
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Students organize and implement a school-based recycling plan based on research and interests of the group.
This adaptable one-period lesson plan includes a simple and powerful service project for Earth Day. The ...
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Unit: Lunchroom Recycling Plan
Unit: Nature and You (Stewardship) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson introduces the concept that trees are just one of many elements in nature that are of fundamental importance to our lives. Learners will explore various reasons why we need nature, why we should be stewards of the environment and will be inspired to work harder to protect Mother...
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Unit: Repairing the World (Private-Religious)
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson will introduce the concept of tikkun olam and teach of its importance. It will show youth that everyone has the ability to do tikkun olam, and that it can be accomplished in a variety of ways.
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Unit: Encouraging Community Engagement
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: Mighty Pens: Writers for Positive Change
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson guides learners as they inform a public audience about philanthropic acts that enhance the common good. The learners write newspaper articles that describe acts of service and volunteerism in their community.
Unit: Walk a Mile in My Moccasins
Grades:
6
7
8
Using words of Native Peoples, youth explore examples of the philanthropic attitudes and traditions.
Unit: My Water, Our Water
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Grades:
3
4
5
Participants discuss the attributes and benefits of local water resources and ecosystems. They identify the interrelatedness of humans and the environment in the book A River Ran Wild, and discuss how the way we treat the water impacts our lives.
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Unit: We Are Guardians of the Earth (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
The most important role models for learners demonstrate how one can live responsibly in our world while achieving success by contemporary measure. The great gift and challenge of Judaism is to bring holiness to the profane- to the worldly. The models offered in this lesson are successful in this...
Unit: Take a Stand on Bullying
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Grades:
6
7
8
Learners identify the different roles people take in the cycle of bullying. They share their observations about bullying situations and discuss why taking action to address bullying behavior is good for the community.
Unit: Humans and Nature Flourishing Together
Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Using the inspiration of Amanda Gorman’s poem “Earthrise,” participants consider what it means to act in ways that honor the Earth. Individuals identify and publicly commit to take action that works to help humans and nature flourish together.