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6
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8
Students will learn about federal social service programs over time and SNAP, the food assistance program.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
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8
Students experience working and unemployment through a very simplified role play.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students experience empathy for people who are homeless by listening to a song and completing the “I Am’ poem assignment.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will research a food program and write an essay.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students identify emergency food assistance programs and stereotypes surrounding hunger.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
Unit: Teamwork: Unit One of Establishing a Student-Run Foundation
Unit: Writers as Activists
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Grades:
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Students will recognize the linguistic strategies that Alice Walker uses in her introduction to Anything You Love Can Be Saved that persuade readers to believe in her causes, and thus begin to think about techniques that they can use in their own activist writing, which they will do in...
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Grades:
9
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Students will summarize the words of Rachel Carson and describe the impact one woman writer had on the world and our environment by reading Part I of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Al Gore's 1994 introduction to the latest printing of the book.
Unit: Those Who Care
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Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the learners will define problem solving and identify some problem solving approaches. They will explore how individuals, groups, and organizations use problem solving approaches,...