Grades:
9
10
11
12
In this lesson young people learn about the tools of advocacy for the common good. They investigate the characteristics of advocates and develop their own personal advocacy style.
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Unit: Advocacy-Getting the Job Done
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
7
8
To help students understand how nonprofit organizations effectively address issues of poverty, food insecurity, immigration, and disenfranchisement locally and globally. To help students experience and understand how farming works.
Grades:
6
7
8
To produce paintings or drawings that represent their “Dream of Peace” and that are submitted to an art competition.
A teacher using this lesson can look for art competitions locally or nationally that are sponsored by a museum, organization, or school district; a teacher might...
Unit: Philanthropic Behavior
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Grades:
K
1
2
Young people will take turns, show respect for the work of others, and cooperatively build a project.
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Unit: Good Health in Our Community
Grades:
3
4
5
Students explore the meaning of community and describe traits of a healthy classroom community. They develop a class definition of a healthy community and learn how to promote healthy habits in the school community.
Unit: Be the Change: Personal Health
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners review healthy eating habits and share their learning to promote a healthier community.
Unit: Telling Our Stories of Giving
Grades:
6
7
8
Students become familiar with the structure of the newspaper and the purpose of the different types of articles as they explore "stories" about acts of giving and sharing time, talent, and treasure for the common good. Students recognize the types of voices and articles in the newspaper. They...
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To continue the study of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s influence on American culture.
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Unit: We Are Guardians of the Earth (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
The most important role models for learners demonstrate how one can live responsibly in our world while achieving success by contemporary measure. The great gift and challenge of Judaism is to bring holiness to the profane- to the worldly. The models offered in this lesson are successful in this...
Unit: Sharing and Caring Across Generations
Grades:
K
1
2
In this lesson, a picture books raises awareness of the importance of memories to the people of all ages that make up a community. The children learn the definition of philanthropy and identify an act of philanthropy in the literature book Wilfrid Gordon...