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Children evaluate a list of organizations and reach a consensus concerning which group should be recognized.
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Unit: Smiles Change the World
Unit: Put Your Hands in Mine (6th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students connect the concepts/practices of fairness, justice, tolerance, togetherness, and equality to the advancement of human and civil rights. Students share ideas about how they can promote the common good and lead positive social changes.
Unit: Kids Can Make a Difference
Grades:
3
4
5
Students choose, plan, implement and evaluate a service project. They work cooperatively with their pen pals and communicate through writing.
Unit: We are the Positive School Culture
Grades:
6
7
8
Based on the results of the survey, the students determine the top five character traits that need improvement in the school. They design a service plan and make mascots using the engineering design method. The mascots act as advocates for improvement in school climate. This lesson focuses...
Unit: Volunteering - Why Is it So Important?<br>(11th Grade)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The learners explore characteristics of "For-Profit" and "Not-for-Profit" businesses and organizations. They identify the role of volunteerism and research the incentives often used to attract volunteers. They will use this information to promote...
Unit: Helping Hands Across the World (5th Grade)
Grades:
3
4
5
Raise awareness of the needs of others who are unable to provide a balanced nutritious diet for their own families. Students learn about the Heifer Project that provides families with resources and education so they can have nutritious food and earn a living within their own communities.
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: Devotions for Young Children
Grades:
6
7
8
Students bring together their investigations of different preschool and early childhood centers and share their research on literacy and faith development and come to a consensus on the plan for their devotional project. They examine sample devotionals and brainstorm their topics and theme ideas...
Unit: Philanthropic Behavior
Unit:
Grades:
K
1
2
Students will take turns, show respect for the work of others, and cooperatively build a project.
Unit: Refugees: Finding a Place
Grades:
3
4
5
During this activity students will use the information they have learned about refugees to complete a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting themselves to refugees like Carly. They will come to consensus on a service project to benefit refugees or others in need and plan and implement a student-...