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The learners reflect on the meaning of integrity by analyzing quotes and naming what they are "true to" in themselves.
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Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 8)
Unit: It's Goin' Down; The Rain Forest
Grades:
6
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8
Learners identify ways for individuals, nonprofits, and governments to take action against excessive destruction of the rainforests of the world.
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6
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Working with current statistics, youth articulate the repercussions of rainforest destruction and how this destruction may personally affect them if deforestation continues at its present pace.
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
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8
Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
Unit: TeachOne for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Grades:
6
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8
Learners use visual literacy skills to analyze the components and message of an image. They listen carefully and seek to understand the different opinions and perspectives of their peers. They identify issues that are meaningful to them and create a simple image and text to communicate a...
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: Introduction to Philanthropy
Grades:
6
7
8
Inspired by stories of service, young people define philanthropy concepts and actions. They brainstorm acts of kindness and determine how they will contribute to the common good.
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Unit: Grow Involved 9-12
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Participants explore Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts about serving and taking action. They give examples of service and social action by one person that can change the world.
Unit: We Are Divine Creations (Tolerance) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
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8
Our lives are the results of billions of decisions. Not only the big decisions – law school or skydiving classes, but the small decisions as well – do you greet someone or pass by? Do you extend a helping hand or the back of it? What we decide determines the course of lives, the content of our...
Unit: Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
Grades:
6
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8
The purpose of the lesson is to create an awareness of local agencies that provide services for needy people, teens, and families in the community. Students will also learn the motivations for giving and see how help is provided to the community through the four sectors of the economy. Students...