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Grades:
6
7
8
Young people learn about environmental stewardship and its importance to all people. They carry out a service project that demonstrates environmental stewardship.
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Unit: Grow Involved 6-8
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners meet in a "round" to discuss issues of fairness and the common good. They explore how downloading music for free affects the common good. They brainstorm other issues of fairness that affect the common good.
Unit: Cartoons of a Civil Society
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Reviewing current political cartoons related to justice, equity, and racism, learners identify how language and humor act as a form of social action. They create their own cartoons or statement promoting or showing the damage of one of these themes.
Unit: Reporting on an Ideal World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners envision an ideal world characterized by principles of justice, kindness, peace, and belonging. They write articles for a fictitious newspaper called USA Tomorrow that reports on the ideal world. They will reflect in writing about one step they can take to make an...
Unit: A Beautiful World
Unit:
Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
Through the book Miss Rumphius, the children learn that caring for the environment is an act of philanthropy. The children explore ways they can make the environment more beautiful with their time and talent.
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners reflect in writing about how they can use their personal resources and interests to make a difference in someone's life.
Unit: TeachOne for Earth Day
Unit:
Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
5
Children spend time outside to play in nature and recognize the beauty of diverse living things in their environment. Their service project is to share nature with someone else in a creative interaction.
Unit: Lunchroom Recycling Plan
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Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
5
Students organize and implement a school-based recycling plan based on a one-day lunchroom waste audit.
Adapt this one-period lesson plan for your grade level and follow it with a simple and powerful service project for Earth...
Unit: Bullying Prevention Plan
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Youth make a plan as empowered and responsible members of the civil society to take action to prevent bullying behavior while being sensitive to the people involved, from the victim to the bystander to the bully.
Unit: The Power of Children
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Students are introduced to philanthropy and service-learning. They learn about different needs in the community and community organizations that address these needs. Students are introduced to the full scope of the Project Based Learning (PBL) project. This unit follows the...