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Students will investigate key local and national nonprofit organizations by researching their histories, services, and target populations.
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Unit: Nonprofits in Our World and Community (3-5)
Unit: Healthy Food Choices
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Students learn about food choices as needs or wants. They read a book and discuss healthy choices. They discuss why is not always good to have everything you want. They discuss the foods we need to have healthy bodies and minds. Students create healthy food choice plates and share them to...
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Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
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11
12
To continue the study of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller’s influence on American culture.
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Unit: Philanthropic Behavior
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Young people will take turns, show respect for the work of others, and cooperatively build a project.
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Unit: Philanthropy—Essential to a Democratic Society
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Students will learn the fundamental principles of parliamentary procedure and use the procedure to create a plan for a service project in the community.
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Unit: We Can All Do Our Share
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This lesson introduces the definition of philanthropy. The children are given the opportunity to see that philanthropy is something in which they are capable of participating. The memory building game stimulates the children to choose many different ways of being philanthropic. The...
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To guide children to understand that being in a group requires working together, getting along, resolving conflicts, and having fun together.
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The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate that being in a group (or community) requires cooperation, working together, getting along, and resolving conflicts. The activity enables the children to accomplish this while having fun at the same time.
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Participants learn about different types of foundations and how they work toward improving the common good.
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Unit: Common Good in Aztec Culture
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6
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From books and research, young people read about the Aztec Empire practice of human sacrifice, which was seen as a gift to help the community. Discuss the concept of sacrifice for the common good and debate individual rights and community responsibility when taking action for the common good....
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