Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, students analyze and define the concept of community. The students identify benefits and sacrifices involved in actions for the common good in their role as citizens.
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Unit: Building Blocks of a Community (6th Grade)
Unit: Connecting the Links for a Stronger Community (7th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students gain awareness of the work of nonprofits and how they form to address issues that impact the common good. They learn more about one nonprofit and plan voluntary action to support its work through volunteering, donations, or advocacy.
Unit: Out of the Ashes of WWII
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
The purpose of this lesson is to integrate and apply the concepts identified, discussed, and evaluated in the first three lessons of this unit to a local community service project that will promote the common good....
Unit: Philanthropy Is Everywhere: Intro. to Philanthropy Unit (3rd)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will understand the concept of “community” as it relates to membership in the classroom, school, or neighborhood....
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Unit: How the Community Meets Needs (7th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students gain an awareness of local organizations that provide services to meet needs in the community. Students learn about the four sectors of the economy that provide help in different forms.
Focus Question: How might individuals and society address the issues of poverty,...
Unit: Exploring Nonprofit Careers
Grades:
3
4
5
To share with other students, families, and/or the community a production designed and prepared by students to entertain the audience while explaining the difference between profit and nonprofit organizations and the types of careers within them.
Unit: Your Place in the Community (10th Grade)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners identify their personal values/beliefs and compare them to the values/beliefs of their peers. They discuss how their values influence their decisions about personal action for the common good.
Focus Question: How does an individual use personal interests...
Unit: Hunger and Your Community (7th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the learners will explore food scarcity and abundance as they relate to issues of poverty, wealth and health. They will identity a need in their community and explore ways that they might help reduce poverty, hunger, and ill-health there.
Unit: Mile In My Moccasins (A) (7th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will recognize the value of giving to the community by looking at examples of the sacrifices and traditions of people of Native American culture.
Unit: Native American Legend about Community (A) (3rd Grade)
Grades:
3
4
5
To review the idea of philanthropy and community through a Native American legend in which people take action in response to a community need.