Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn about the similarities and differences of the hunger situation in the two different classifications of countries: industrialized nations and developing nations.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn about federal social service programs over time and SNAP, the food assistance program.
Grades:
6
7
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.
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
To work together, see the big picture, and think about the connection between individuals in the group as students participate in the activity.
Author: Urban EdVenture Faculty
Grades:
5
To show students that everyone is part of the big picture and that the skills needed to take care of a small community of individuals are similar to those needed to care for a larger community.
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Grades:
5
To provide an opportunity for students who can maintain a vision of a goal their group has to achieve, to show leadership and coach their group members towards the goal. Helium Hoop also creates a space in which leaders can learn to sense the energy of a group. Often times, a...
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Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
7
8
To help students understand how to use their voices to advocate for causes about which they care.
Grades:
6
7
8
To help students see music as an art form that identifies social injustice, advocates for change, and proclaims hope on behalf of the forgotten.
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Grades:
6
7
8
To help students understand important events in U.S. History during the time period of the setting for the novel Of Mice and Men; these include westward expansion, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
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