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These Australian folktales compare selfish and unselfish behaviors and tell the origin story of our permanent responsibility as caretaker of the land.
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Unit: Generosity of Spirit Folktales
Unit: Nonprofits in Our World and Community (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will investigate key local and national nonprofit organizations by researching their histories, services, and target populations.
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Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To give students time to reflect on the course of study each week and to encourage them to begin thinking of how to best make a monetary donation to an effective organization.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn about the similarities and differences of the hunger situation in the two different classifications of countries: industrialized nations and developing nations.
Unit: TeachOne: Words Bring Peace
Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
In this lesson, students learn that we all have ideas and talents to make the world a better place. This is an opportunity to demonstrate and feel the impact of kindness, inclusion, and listening on a caring community. Students learn from a community helper about the needs they observe in the...
Unit: Nature and You (Stewardship) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson will familiarize students with the Biblical passages that describe Adam’s responsibility to care for the Garden of Eden. Learners will develop an understanding of what this responsibility required of Adam and model this responsibility to nature by taking care of a garden of their own...
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Unit: Writers as Activists
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students identify causes they care about and related nonprofits or community resources. They use writing as a tool to make a difference, using persuasive writing techniques.
Unit: Grow Involved K-2
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1
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A read aloud story demonstrates caring and philanthropy related to environmental stewardship and animal welfare.
Unit: Stitch in Time for the Common Good
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners explore that government and non-profit organizations together help bring about breakthroughs in modern science and medicine. These contributions to the common good require the support of philanthropists, large and small.
Unit: Cultural Diversity in Service
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners compare and contrast the work and mission of four famous philanthropists: Cesar Chavez, George Washington Carver, Sunderlal Buhuguna, and Abdul Sattar Edhi. They identify the motivations, impact, and attitudes about service, and start to clarify their personal attitudes about service by...