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Writing letters to government officials is an effective way to take a stand on an issue. Young people use advocacy as a form of service.
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Unit: Grow Involved 9-12
Unit: Understanding Justice, Kindness and Tolerance
Grades:
9
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This lesson examines one way a lack of self-awareness can play a role in perpetuating racism and prejudice. Learners identify ways they can advocate for justice and kindness.
Unit: Telling Our Stories of Giving
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6
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8
Students learn effective techniques and complete prewriting activities for writing a persuasive essay. As a culmination of the unit, students choose one of the three styles of writing--news article, personal narrative, or persuasive essay--to write, edit, and publish about their experience with...
Unit: Quiet Contamination of Our Waters
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K
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Youth learn about the toxic ingredients in personal care products and take action to protect local waterways from the effects of the chemicals.
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Unit: Surviving Auschwitz (6-8)
Grades:
6
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8
This lesson focuses on two young Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi death camp. As they return to their home town and the concentration camp, they each tell their story and explain why they were willing to return to such an emotionally devastating place. Their story is...
Unit: Kwanzaa: Unity Within Community
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K
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Learners develop an understanding of the seven principles of Kwanzaa through artistic applications. They are challenged to apply the principles to their everyday lives in a way that enhances the communities to which they belong.
Unit: Generosity of Spirit Folktales
Grades:
9
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All cultures have practices and customs regarding hospitality, or how we treat guests. In these folktales, we learn about different expectations and degrees of these customs and how travelers test the limits of hospitality and feel the effects of their host's generosity.
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
What is a famine and what are its effects? Students read and write an "interior monologue" response.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
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8
Learners read about and discuss Fair Trade and how it relates to justice, fairness, and equity.
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
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8
The learners read and reflect on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to respect.