Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will recognize the aspects of the hero/superhero in themselves, take action on a social issue about which they care deeply, and reflect on that experience through writing.
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Unit: Superheroes as Philanthropists
Unit: Setting the Stage for Service Learning Relationships
Grades:
6
7
8
Through a variety of activities, students examine the meaning and examples of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Students explore how prejudice impacts our human interactions and learn skills of sensitivity for differences. ...
Unit: New Philanthropy--A Hands-On Way of Giving (The)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will match a major social problem with a foundation that is trying to help solve the problem and research its work.
Unit: Global Peace and Local Legacies
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will understand the impact that philanthropy has worldwide both locally and worldwide. The final experiential component will have students celebrating the good works of local philanthropists (Champions for the Common Good), and engaging in philanthropic activities themselves by planning...
Unit: Bridging the Gap
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Grades:
6
7
8
Students will engage in a service learning activity, write about it in a journal, an essay and an observation report, and complete a project summarizing their experience. While written for a Christian Middle School, the lesson may be easily adapted for public school use.
Unit: Building Blocks of a Community (6th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, students analyze and define the concept of community. The students identify benefits and sacrifices involved in actions for the common good in their role as citizens.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
Unit: Herstory in History
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Grades:
6
7
8
The learners will explain that bullying violates a persons core democratic values. Students will take action on the issue of bullying by taking surveys of various groups and sharing the results and their possible solutions with others.
Unit: Philanthropy Is Everywhere
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will describe career opportunities in the nonprofit sector.
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students analyze the words to a song about prejudice. They rewrite the lyrics with a more positive message.