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Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Unit: Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
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The purpose of the lesson is to create an awareness of local agencies that provide services for needy people, teens, and families in the community. Students will also learn the motivations for giving and see how help is provided to the community through the four sectors of the economy. Students...
Unit: Encouraging Community Engagement
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Learners use economic thinking to determine how to allocate their scarce resources for community service.
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Unit: Money and the Common Good
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Discuss and debate the issues related to fast fashion, its impact on people and the planet, and how the issue can be addressed to promote responsibility and the common good.
Unit: Best Day Ever!
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Youth make a chart of how they typically spend a free day and then envision what that same free day would look like when it is infused with philanthropy. They plan a free day, substituting their usual routine with activities that serve the community. They discuss the benefits and...
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 6)
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Through a discussion of impulse spending and opportunity cost, learners weigh the benefits of careful decisions and perseverance in reaching goals....
Unit: Common Good in Aztec Culture
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When we take action for the common good, we give up something: a little time or money that might have been spent on something else. Youth explore different forms of sacrifice for the common good and answer the question: When is a sacrifice justified and necessary, and when is it too much or a...
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From books and research, young people read about the Aztec Empire practice of human sacrifice, which was seen as a gift to help the community. Discuss the concept of sacrifice for the common good and debate individual rights and community responsibility when taking action for the common good....
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Unit: Generosity of Spirit Folktales
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As demonstrated in these folktales, even the smallest things, when shared, can be examples of philanthropy. ...
Unit: Deliver Gratitude Day
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This lesson focuses on the meaning and benefits of gratitude. Participants give examples of what people give up (opportunity cost) when they give philanthropically. For their service project, the young people will decide how they can 'deliver gratitude' to a deserving person...