Grades:
6
7
8
Learners reflect on issues that people tend to look the other way from to avoid facing difficult situations. They write an honest reflection on issues they can take action to address.
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Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 8)
Unit: Be the Change: Core Values
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students explore and demonstrate leadership and service qualities, reflect on the qualities of a leader and create and donate a children's book.
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students analyze the words to a song about prejudice. They rewrite the lyrics with a more positive message.
Unit: We Are Partners in the Work of Creation (Tikkun Olam) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will familiarize learners with a story of Creation from the Jewish mystical tradition. The story, based upon the Sefer Yetzirah, provides the foundation for the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, repair of the world. Learners will begin to formulate a personal concept...
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Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, learners brainstorm the traits of a community of trusted learners, describing what it would look like if students and teachers in a classroom felt a high level of trust with each other. They have the opportunity to rate how their classroom community falls on a trust...
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners imagine life changes one, four and five years from the present time. They determine skills and attitudes of self-discipline that will help them be successful in the future....
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Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students create the definition of responsibility from their experience and gain insight into ways that 6th graders are responsible.
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To understand the workings of a large foundation that distributes major capital gifts and programmatic gifts like scholarships for higher education....
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Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson challenges students to think of their personal responsibility to act when they observe unfair treatment. They respond to a scenario as a whole class and then work in small groups to analyze personal responses to a specific situation of their choosing.
Unit: From Struggle to Success
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Grades:
6
7
8
Students edit their memoir drafts, adding dialogue and figurative language in this guided writing session. This lesson will help students realize that struggles they experience in their lives often lead to a new understanding or lesson learned. Students will reflect on how their experience...