Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
Participants identify the impact of humans on lakes and rivers. They explore ways to take responsibility to protect the waterways.
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Unit: My Water, Our Water
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn about overpopulation and its connection to hunger.
Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners reflect on the meaning of integrity by analyzing quotes and naming what they are "true to" in themselves.
Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners demonstrate understanding of integrity by reflecting and writing in response to quotes or personal experiences related to integrity.
Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson clarifies that true rights are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Participants discuss the importance of protecting these rights, and if and when it is ever appropriate to limit rights. We learn that one role of nonprofits is to preserve and promote guaranteed rights.
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To introduce students to grantmaking and the work of community foundations.
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Grades:
11
12
To introduce students to examples of the major types of nonprofit organization: arts, education, environment, health, religion, and social services. Each site is representative of a nonprofit category and the visit is to give students an example of opportunities for giving.
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Unit: Roots of Philanthropy (Elementary)
Grades:
2
3
4
5
6
Youth Activity: Participants will become comfortable saying the word philanthropy. See the handout for supplemental faith-based discussion questions.
"Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone...
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Unit: Philanthropic Literature
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Grades:
K
1
2
The book the Rainbow Fish tells the story of a fish who learns to give a little of himself for the sake of others. We discuss the impact of giving something you value to make a better community.
Unit: Writers as Activists
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will recognize the linguistic strategies that Alice Walker uses in her introduction to Anything You Love Can Be Saved that persuade readers to believe in her causes, and thus begin to think about techniques that they can use in their own activist writing.