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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....
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Unit: Good Health in Our Community
Unit: Building a Community Garden Santuary
Grades:
3
4
5
The book, The Gardener, by Sarah Stewart gently illustrates how sharing growing things can be a gift to others and the community. ...
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Unit: Philanthropic Behavior
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Young people will take turns, show respect for the work of others, and cooperatively build a project.
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
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8
Students examine their personal healthy habits and their school (and neighborhood) environments to collect information about nutrition and fitness in the community. Students consider what changes they can make to the...
Unit: Phil Up on the Arts
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Discuss when permission is needed in order to perform an act of philanthropy. Learn and practice a song about giving. ...
Unit: Nature and You (Stewardship) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
3
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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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Students will identify some community and school needs. They will respond to literature about being a good person and making a difference. Working as a group, the students select a philanthropic project, formulate a plan, and execute that plan to address the need....
Unit: Writers as Activists
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By reading about her life and her work, students will understand how Mary Eliza Church Terrell’s writing and activism brought about change for African Americans and women.
Unit: We Are Divine Creations (Tolerance) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
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8
It is obvious that our bodies require proper nutrition. It is less obvious that our souls and imaginations require sustenance as well. This lesson is intended as nutrition for the spirit. It is intended to demonstrate ways that people utilize their time, their talent and their treasure to...
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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...