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Create a past, present, and future timeline of personal philanthropy.
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Unit: Community Philanthropy
Unit: My Water, Our Water
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Participants discuss the attributes and benefits of local water resources and ecosystems. They identify the interrelatedness of humans and the environment in the book A River Ran Wild, and discuss how the way we treat the water impacts our lives.
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
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Learners reflect on universal obstacles to persevering and write creative "one-liners" to help them face obstacles with creativity, determination, and humor.
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Unit: Power and Race in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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6
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Readers examine the lasting effects of power, privilege, and discrimination on communities.
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Grades:
6
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Students analyze survey results, choose a community health need, and design a service project to address it.
Unit: Growing Our Future
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In response to reading The Lorax, participants identify what trees give to us and all sectors of society. In response, we identify our personal responsibility for caring for trees.
Unit: Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks’s acts of philanthropy brought a community of people together for the common good and resulted in major social change in her community and in the nation. Young people identify the relationship between individual rights, justice, equality, and community responsibility.
Unit: It's Goin' Down; The Rain Forest
Grades:
6
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8
Working with current statistics, youth articulate the repercussions of rainforest destruction and how this destruction may personally affect them if deforestation continues at its present pace.
Unit: Earth Keepers
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This lesson introduces learners to our global community. Learners see how they depend on the earth and the earth depends on them. Since we share the earth with many other people, we have a responsibility (for the good of all) to be good...
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World
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Children participate in a trash clean-up and analyze the issue of pollution caused by trash, especially plastics. They discuss who should be responsible for preventing or cleaning up pollution - government, business, charitable organizations, and/or individuals.
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