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Effective Communication and Philanthropy Vocabulary

This resource guide highlights activities you can do with your students to help them enhance their communication and listening skills.

This Activity Builds Communication Skills.

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Teamwork Skills

These activities and games educate, equip, and empower students to build community, trust, and open communication in the classroom, as well as in the greater community.

This Activity Teaches Problem Solving as a Group.

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Types of Service Projects

After learning about a community need, students look for action they can take beyond the fundraiser or canned food drive. It is helpful to know that service takes four basic forms:

Direct, Indirect, Advocacy and Research...

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Building Community through Morning Meetings

You can build community through classroom meetings. Meetings should last about 10-15 minutes. After greeting each student at the door, invite them to a communal

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Students get outside and play in nature and recognize the beauty of diverse living things in their environment. Their service project is to take action to protect nature and share nature with someone else.

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Students use visual literacy skills to analyze the components and message of an image. They listen carefully and seek to understand the different opinions and perspectives of their classmates. The students identify issues that are meaningful to them and create a simple image and text to communicate a message that causes others to think.

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Service-Learning Toolkit for Voting Engagement

The best service-learning projects are related to classroom instruction, involve student voice and choice, address a researched need, and work with local resources.

From the days of “no taxation without representation” to the women’s suffrage movement and the modern civil rights...

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Students learn about the environmental effect of crayons and their own power to make an impact. Students collect gently used crayons from restaurants and other places in the community. They sort them by color, repackage them sustainably for re-use, and add a kind note. They learn about the difference between nonprofit and for-profit businesses, and they identify where there is need for the repackaged crayons.