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Grades:
6
7
8
Students reflect on the importance of their identity from Lessons 1 and 2 and make a plan to demonstrate their responsibility to their community through a service-learning project.
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Unit: Community Impact
Unit: The Power of Children
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Students determine which community need should have greatest priority. Once a priority need has been determined, students research organizations that address that community need. The research process will use a student-generated list of questions.
Unit: Forced to Flee and Find a New Home
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Through video, a simulation activity about learning a new language, and discussion, students build understanding of life as a refugee.
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Unit: From Passion to Career: Leadership Paths
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students examine the personal stories of various nonprofit leaders and relate them to the six Career Pathways. Students will discuss the ways that careers change throughout an individual's life as they pursue their passions. Students will also use the concept of passion to career to plan a...
Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Through writing, students share their insights into taking responsibility with the resulting benefits or consequences.
Unit: Opening Our Hearts and Hands to Others (Tzedakah)
Grades:
3
4
5
Using texts and experiential learning experiences, this lesson emphasizes the reasons why giving tzedakah, or charity, is a fundamental concept in Judaism.
Unit: Growing Our Future
Unit:
Grades:
K
1
2
In response to reading The Lorax, participants identify what trees give to us and all sectors of society. In response, we identify our personal responsibility for caring for trees.
Unit: Civic Virtue in Modern American Democracy
Grades:
9
10
11
12
As a group we define good citizenship, including the classic Roman concept of civic virtue (putting the common good above individual need).
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Compare the meaning of justice with fairness, and distinguish the meanings of fair, just, and equitable. Write a definition for each term and display it on the wall for the duration of the unit....
Unit: Animals in Sports and Entertainment
Grades:
6
7
8
Participants explore how animals are used in sports and entertainment. They will explore the concepts of animal welfare and animal cruelty, and how they relate to the manner in which animals are trained and treated. The learners will explore, formulate, and articulate...