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3
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5
Students read stories about caring for others, then they create quilts to donate to community organizations.
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Unit: Grow Involved 3-5
Unit: Challenging Social Boundaries
Grades:
9
10
11
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Students will describe how Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat was a continuation of long-standing acts of protest against forced segregation in public spaces in the South. They will explain how her action, which ushered change in public transportation, was heroic.
Unit: Art for the Common Good—Junkanoo!
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, groups work together to make their headdresses based on a common design. Each person makes their own headdress that fits the group theme but has their own style or cultural uniqueness. The groups compete against each other, so the group...
Unit: Be the Change: Life Skills
Grades:
9
10
11
12
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...
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
In the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, students identify the barriers and challenges to addressing an unfair situation. Given a list of ways to respond to unfair situations, students match ways to respond to possible unfair situations.
Unit: Grow Involved K-2
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Grades:
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2
Students learn about caring and sharing through discussion of the book Martin's Big Words. The lesson introduces the "big" word philanthropy (giving time, talent and treasure for the common good). The students discuss ways they have been philanthropic by voluntarily...
Unit: ECHO, ECHO, ECHO—Each Can Help Others
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn about the philanthropy of historical figures. Students explore how their lives have been influenced by past philanthropic acts and decide how they can benefit others.
Unit: Women in Philanthropy
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Grades:
9
10
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12
Madam C. J. Walker, successful African American business woman, supported many causes with the profits of her business. We become aware of the many ways people give.
Unit: Philanthropy in Michigan—Civil War
Grades:
3
4
5
Introduce students to the term philanthropy.
Grades:
3
4
5
A lesson to help students consider the benefits when an individual chooses to do philanthropic acts and to engage in critical thinking and constructive conversation regarding opposing views....