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At the beginning of the year we get to create our classroom community. We get to decide how we will learn and grow and play with each other for the rest of the year. This is a new beginning for all. As we start to...
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Unit: Building a Caring and Inclusive Classroom
Unit: Be the Change: Personal Health
Grades:
9
10
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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: Be the Change: Democracy
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Grades:
9
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Students explore the connection between rights, laws, and voting in a democracy. They learn about their local government structure and visit a public office to collect data through interviews and observations....
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Unit: Be the Change: Core Values
Grades:
9
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Students explore and demonstrate leadership and service qualities, reflect on the qualities of a leader and create and donate a children's book.
Grades:
9
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Students explore identity traits through some reflection and discussion activities. They discuss how a community is strengthened by similarities and differences among them. Each student writes a biographical poem using the provided template and their discussion notes.
Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
Grades:
9
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Students build on their understanding about homelessness, seeking to discover the actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
Unit: Be the Change: Life Skills
Grades:
9
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The students will engage in activities to examine how they make use of their time, make an action plan, and create a to-do list to improve upon their own time management....
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Grades:
9
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The students will build upon what they learned about time management and develop a set of study skills that will help them to learn, truly understand, and recall material. They will learn a strategy for test taking that will serve them well on exams that require responding to questions...
Grades:
9
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11
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Students engage in a variety of activities that teach the value of budgeting and fundraising. They will investigate the concept of enlightened self-interest and how that correlates to good time and money management and civic engagement....
Unit: Be the Change: Violence
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Grades:
9
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Students will explore the causes and effects of bullying and brainstorm ways to address the problem....