Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will define community, identify how community is/has impacted their personal lives, and share ideas and develop a plan whereby they might also make an impact on their community.
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Unit: Valuing Community (9th Grade)
Unit: Pilgrim's Progress
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Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson introduces the students to the definition of philanthropy and tells how the Native Americans were philanthropic toward the Pilgrims. Students carry out their own “random acts of kindness.”
Unit: Be the Change: Violence
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will form a collaborative definition of violence and its causes through discussion and research. They will evaluate the state of social capital of their own community, taking into consideration a variety of factors that contribute to violence or peace....
Unit: Wellspring—An Intergenerational Historical Writing Project
Grades:
6
7
8
To help students realize their responsibility to contribute to the community in positive ways.To introduce others to the value of the service learning project.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will develop a collaborative definition of "community" and realize the unique attributes of our community.
Unit: Real Heroes
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Grades:
3
4
5
Introduces students to "philanthropy" as an important aspect of their community's development and helps them recognize the relationship between community need and private action.
Unit: Worthless to Priceless: It's all Relative
Grades:
6
7
8
Students continue to respond to the South Asian Indian folktale "The Drum." The purpose of this final lesson is to allow students time and an audience to showcase what philanthropy can mean for their future....
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: Buzzing is BEE-lieving
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Grades:
K
1
2
Students reflect on the importance of being respectful and feeling respected in the classroom community and through involvement in the larger community.
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...