Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore the meanings of community and healthy. While moving around the classroom in an organized game, they have conversations about healthy communities and healthy choices for themselves.
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Unit: Making our Voices Heard for the Community
Grades:
6
7
8
Raise awareness of the importance of freedom of speech and the opportunity to voice one's opinion without fear of reprisal, as principles basic to a democracy. The learners investigate ways to have a positive influence in encouraging eligible voters to make their voices heard at the...
Unit: Early American Influences
Grades:
3
4
5
We learn how different groups coming together for the good of all established the Mayflower Compact. This brief agreement was the first document of its kind designed to bring a community together to focus on the common good. This may be a model for a group agreement written by the...
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Unit: Teamwork: Unit One of Establishing a Student-Run Foundation
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students prepare a one-minute speech about themselves using an object as a device to share a story and help others remember their name and something about them.
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Unit: Roots of Philanthropy (Elementary)
Grades:
2
3
4
5
6
Youth Activity: Participants will become comfortable saying the word philanthropy. See the handout for supplemental faith-based discussion questions.
"Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone...
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Unit: Deliver Gratitude Day
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson focuses on the meaning and benefits of gratitude. Teens research one aspect of gratitude in order to understand its relationship to health, happiness, or generosity. For their service project, they decide how they can 'deliver gratitude' to a deserving person or group. They will then...
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PreK
K
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5
This lesson focuses on the meaning and benefits of gratitude. A book about a gratitude jar challenges us to brainstorm things they are grateful for right now. For their service project, participants 'deliver gratitude' to others in the school community by saying "thank you" and...
Unit: GivingTuesday
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Grades:
PreK
K
1
2
3
4
5
We discuss the joy of giving, as well as various ways to give through doing kind acts for people in the community. We learn how #GivingTuesday is a day of giving that combines efforts with others around the world to make a big difference. Children follow their own interests to make someone smile...
Unit: Tolerance (Private-Religious)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The learners will review the tolerance skills/characteristics necessary to discern and promote tolerance. They will also identify situations that call for tolerance in their daily lives.
Unit: Souperservice Kids
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Grades:
K
1
2
These activities raise awareness of the five senses and the role the senses play in making food choices. We read a book about the senses and practice using them in center activities.
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