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Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
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Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 6)
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners use metaphors to describe a trustworthy person.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
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Grades:
3
4
5
We all want our schools and other places we gather to feel safe, a place we all can be ourselves. In this lesson, we explore how respecting ourselves and others can promote an inclusive and safe community of belonging.
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Grades:
3
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5
After learning about the definition of respect toward self and others, we explore the idea of respect for property or the environment.
Unit: The Important Thing About Reading
Grades:
3
4
5
In this lesson, we explore the value of reading and discuss why it is good for the community when everyone has access to books.
Unit: Surviving Auschwitz (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson focuses on two young Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi death camp. As they return to their home town and the concentration camp, they each tell their story and explain why they were willing to return to such an emotionally devastating place. Their story is...
Unit: Cultural Competence
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Grades:
K
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Looking around the room, we may see many skin colors and tones. These differences occur all over the world. In this lesson we use the terminology of race and ethnicity and look at data to identify the makeup of our community or state. Young people may take action to promote representation of the...
Unit: Early American Influences
Grades:
3
4
5
Benjamin Franklin's work was in service to making a better world, and he influenced the nonprofit sector. His book, Poor Richards Almanack, makes connections to the common good through personal virtue and actions. The participants choose quotes to create posters that communicate...
Unit: Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
Grades:
6
7
8
Students read about the Orphan Train and compare and contrast how that philanthropic effort has evolved today.