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Participants define what they want to accomplish for the community garden and identify a place that is available and has the right conditions. This requires research and permissions.
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Unit: Building a Community Garden Santuary
Unit: TeachOne Back to School
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Learners research the environmental effect of crayons and their own power to make an impact. They collect gently used crayons from restaurants and other places in the community. They sort them by color, repackage them for re-use, add a kind note, and donate the new packages where they...
Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
Grades:
9
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The learners examine their preconceptions about homelessness and build understanding of people who are homeless.
Unit: Resolving Conflict with Respect
Grades:
6
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In civil society, different people come together to form community. While differences may cause conflict, for the sake of the common good, we practice empathy and respect for others. Students respond to scenarios of differences in opinion. They learn to communicate respectfully with someone of a...
Unit: Helping Children Learn
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Grades:
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Learners increase their reading fluency and awareness of philanthropy by reading to younger children.
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Unit: Growing an Environmental Steward
Grades:
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Learners share what they learned about an environmental issue with the community.
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
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For students to choose a cause to which they have a personal connection and write letters to advocate for change.
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Unit: Lunchroom Recycling Plan
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6
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Students organize and implement a school-based recycling plan based on a one-day lunchroom waste audit.
Adapt this one-period lesson plan and follow it with a simple and powerful service project for Earth Day. The reflection...
Unit: Good Health in Our Community
Grades:
3
4
5
Students learn about nutrition for healthy bodies and encourage others to make healthy choices. Students learn about healthy choices by playing a group game. In the end they learn that when everyone is healthy, we are all able to...
Unit: Nonprofits are Necessary (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will describe how local nonprofits help the community.