Giving homemade blankets to help people who are homeless or young people in the hospital is a form of philanthropy (giving treasure). What is the best way to donate? Using a decision-making model, the young people compare blanket projects and determine whether they have the time,...
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Unit: Time, Talent, Treasure, and Economics
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 6)
In this lesson, students define courage further by distinguishing it from heroism and recognizing that courage is something we need when making a difficult choice about something important.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 6)
Students define the meaning of impartial and connect it to fairness through the use of a Frayer model graphic organizer.
Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger around the World
Depictions of hunger in excerpts from Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist provide concrete images of hunger as learners determine its causes and decide whether to support a change in U.S. public policy related to the issue.
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Students will learn about the similarities and differences of the hunger situation in the two different classifications of countries: industrialized nations and developing nations.
Unit: Pet Care and Safety
Explore animal welfare through literature and analysis of wants and needs of people and pets.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
Learners compare two communities to which they belong using a Venn diagram and descriptive words related to trustworthiness.
Unit: Investing In Others (3-5)
Students learn four choices they can make with money and compare this to how they spend their time. They recognize that volunteering requires freedom of choice....
Unit: Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
Students read about the Orphan Train and compare and contrast how that philanthropic effort has evolved today....
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 7)
Students compare a trustworthy person to an object using the writers' devise of metaphor or simile....