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Through persuasive writing, young people build awareness and invite action for change about an issue. Typical writing forms may include essays, editorials, feature articles, or speeches.
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Unit: Mighty Pens: Writers for Positive Change
Unit: Be the Change: Personal Health
Grades:
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Students look at the role exercise plays in overall health. They make a plan to engage younger children in more active play and exercise....
Unit: Animal Shelters
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Animal shelters have many areas of concern but the mission of all shelters is to care for and place homeless animals. They rely on donations from the public to do their important work. Municipal shelters are funded by the municipality--...
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
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11
12
To create multi-media iBooks with PSAs (public service announcements) that explore and raise awareness about (local or global) issues (such as homelessness, water pollution, education, or hunger) that can be addressed by philanthropy....
Unit: Bully-Free Zone
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The students will present skits to illustrate strategies for addressing bullying behavior. They will compose a class pledge against bullying, and may choose to sign the pledge. The students will plan and implement a service project to inform the school community about bullying behavior and...
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Unit: Writers as Activists
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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, which they will do in...
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (6-8)
Grades:
6
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Students read and learn about a group, IMPUHWE (means compassion in Kinyarwanda), that supports girls’ education in Rwanda. They compare and contrast attributes of school systems across the globe.
Unit: Good Health in Our Community
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3
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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....
Unit: Beneficial Bees
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Students explore the roles of bees in a hive and as pollinators. They learn about reasons their population numbers have been declining in recent years. The design a project to help beautify their school and help the larger environment by attracting bees. They may write a letter or...
Unit: Farm to Table and Food Security
Grades:
6
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8
Learners evaluate the effectiveness of their solution and service-learning project, including individual and group processes and learnings. They reflect individually and in groups, and celebrate their success.