This lesson will help students learn the importance of helping people in need, and teach them to take an active role in helping others. It will allow the students to be aware of what kind of items and quality of items should be donated, how to communicate an idea to others by visual means...
Students experience working and unemployment through a very simplified role play.
Students identify emergency food assistance programs and stereotypes surrounding hunger.
Students explore how charity and philanthropy address hunger and poverty.
The groups wear their headdresses and perform a Junkanoo-like parade first internally and then to entertain a group that needs cheering or to teach about cooperation and respect for cultural expressions.
Young people explore the impact of their own actions on their environment and develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be an environmental steward.
In this lesson the learners define respect and relate it to the core values and beliefs of a constitutional democracy.
Learners analyze the meaning of personal best and recognize the value of persistence in doing their best.
The learners present skits share strategies for addressing bullying behavior. They make a plan to reduce bullying in their school or community.
Youth Activity: Participants recognize a wide variety of philanthropic actions through fun and active participation. See the handout for supplemental faith-based discussion questions.
"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20...