This lesson examines the connections between the five basic guaranteed rights in the Bill of Rights and their corresponding responsibilities. Participants explore the natual consequences of fulfilling, or not fulfilling, responsibilities connected to their rights.
The youth read the book Seedfolks and discuss the diverse characters and their individual contributions to a community garden. While learning about the thirteen individuals in the story, they identify their character, heritage, motivations, and contributions to nourishing...
Now familiar with how a community foundation serves the community, the learners form a Youth Advisory Committee and use parliamentary procedure to conduct business.
Participants identify and compare the different roles of the four sectors of the economy (government, business, nonprofit, and family). They identify which sector does what and observe how they approach differently the sometimes overlapping responsibilities....
Conducting research about activists from different cultures helps youth recognize Human Rights and the relationship to philanthropic values.
This lesson introduces Alfred Nobel and his legacy, the Nobel Peace Prize.
Learners talk about the uses of water and understand its importance to our world.
Now that the need they want to address is identified, the children meet people in the community who address the need and others who may want to help them with their fundraiser.
In this lesson, young people research various types of renewable energy and write a persuasive statement about which energy source their city or county should invest in.
This lesson gives an overview of the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution, and the major changes to how people live and work. Young people learn about the key inventions and changes that shifted focus from people and their skills to big machines and systems of mass production. The systems...