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Students learn about the philanthropic work of Jane Addams.
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Unit: Social Reformer—Jane Addams
Unit: Role of Philanthropy in an Ever Changing World (The)
Grades:
6
7
8
To increase students' understanding of philanthropy by tracing the origin and history of a nonprofit organization.
Unit: Living History-An Intergenerational Philanthropy Project
Grades:
3
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5
In this lesson the students prepare for their visit to the retirement home. First the students create and use a personal timeline and questionnaire to write their autobiographies to be used as the author page in the Living History Book. The class will work together to come up with questions to...
Unit: Philanthropy is "Phun"
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K
1
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To provide an opportunity to create a timeline for use in future lessons related to philanthropy.
Unit: Communities in Crisis (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The purpose of this lesson is to connect philanthropic acts of individuals to crises during the Holocaust, specifically the Warsaw Ghetto. Learners will apply strategies of philanthropy to current issues of human rights abuses. Learners will identify philanthropic themes of community building....
Unit: Philanthropy in History
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Grades:
3
4
5
Students will create a web that incorporates the values that were discussed in the reading of Our Journey West.
Unit: Power to the People through Action
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners cite philanthropic historical events on a timeline. They focus on events in which the nonprofit sector was used to make positive changes in society....
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Unit: What a Wonderful World—Changes Through Time
Grades:
3
4
5
Students recognize that babies come into the world with unknown potential. Babies born today grow up to "know a different world" than the elderly people students met in the previous lesson. Students look at the known and unknown parts of a timeline.
Unit: Rivers for the Common Good
Grades:
3
4
5
Learners will study the impact of humans on the environment of a river valley over time and recognize stewardship and the common good in a real life example.
Unit: Writers as Activists
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Grades:
9
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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...