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Grades:
9
10
11
12
In a persuasive essay learners will describe responsibilities of American citizenship and determine the cost of freedom. They will determine whether philanthropic giving is a part of those costs.
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Unit: My Country, My Community
Unit: Newborn and Child Survival (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson students choose a service project to take action for children's health in the poorest countries. Many ideas are suggested related to Save the Children's Newborn and Child Survival Campaign. The suggested projects are calendar events and can be found in the Service...
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Unit: Refugees: Real People, Real Stories, Real Life
Grades:
6
7
8
Students build an understanding and empathy for the life of a refugee. They examine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and identify rights that are denied to refugees. They connect rights and responsibilities as they determine the value to the common good of protecting rights of refugees...
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
The students take action by determining ways to reduce their own use of plastic bags and by advocating for ways to reduce the use of plastic bags in their own households, the community, state and nation. To take further action, the students may propose ways to influence...
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Unit: Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the Globe (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students identify the USDA food guide as a source for guidelines about eating a nutritionally balanced diet. They identify foods and categorize them by food group in a game. My Plate and the guidelines were designed for consumers of food in the United States and might not be an appropriate guide...
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Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson raises the learners’ awareness of water quality, water treatment, and responsible management of water resources around the world. Learners explore the issue of safe water accessibility and discuss responsibilities of a global citizen to assure all people have safe drinking water....
Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students build on their understanding about homelessness, seeking to discover the actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
Unit: PULSE: A STOMP Odyssey (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Introduce students to “rhythms of life” around the world, including the rhythms of music and philanthropy. They use atlases and maps to find world locations. They create their own musical rhythms and reproduce the rhythms of others as an analogy for serial reciprocity.
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners will investigate the meaning of respect, especially as it relates to respecting members of diverse groups. Students will analyze the dynamics of group formation and describe how inclusion and exclusion from groups can result in conflict and disrespect.
Unit: Diverse Community: Who Is My Neighbor? (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students explore their personal experience with stereotypes through an interactive game. They reflect on how it feels to be characterized by first impressions.
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