The learner develops an awareness of alternative, earth-friendly ways to eat. This lesson encourages the learners to evaluate how their food choices affect the environment. Youth identify ways organic and processed foods contribute to their health as well as the health of our world.
Students will describe how local nonprofits help the community.
Young people play with other children, showing that trust, collaboration, and thinking of the good of all are part of fun group activities.
The learners build on their understanding, seeking actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
Students experience empathy for people who are homeless by listening to a song and completing the “I Am’ poem assignment.
This lesson will introduce the concept of tikkun olam and teach of its importance. It will show youth that everyone has the ability to do tikkun olam, and that it can be accomplished in a variety of ways.
Participants learn about the scientific contributions of African American inventors and scientists today and in the past.
Using Guidestar as a source, young people identify three nonprofits and their mission statements.
Young people perform their puppet plays in order to teach others about environmental issues. They reflect on this project by writing an answer to some essential questions of the unit: What does it mean to be a philanthropist? What does it mean to be an environmentalist?