Grades:
6
7
8
Students look for examples of personal best in a movie about perseverance and discuss the value of working toward personal best even when it is difficult.
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 7)
Unit: Creating Student-Generated Classroom Rules
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will apply the concept of jurisdiction to classroom rules, identify court-recognized student rights and create a list of behaviors in a classroom that might violate student rights.
Unit: We Are Partners in the Work of Creation (Tikkun Olam) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will introduce learners to a number of texts from classical and modern sources on the topic of how the work of tikun olam is to be performed. From these texts, the learners will derive rules for Jewish living and apply those rules, along with input from family members, to...
Unit: We Are Guardians of the Earth (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
The most important role models for learners demonstrate how one can live responsibly in our world while achieving success by contemporary measure. The great gift and challenge of Judaism is to bring holiness to the profane- to the worldly. The models offered in this lesson are successful in this...
Unit: Philanthropy, Volunteering and Service: The Historical Connections
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will come to an understanding of philanthropy by studying the successes and failures of the War on Poverty as a component of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. They will participate in a service activity based on reflections of current community needs and foundations and agencies...
Unit: The Important Thing About Reading
Grades:
3
4
5
The purpose of this lesson is for students to share their feelings about a book while they create a book cover. The books will then be donated to a school or organization where students’ covers will be shared with the recipients of the book....
Unit: Courage of the Heart
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Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn about the scientific contributions of African American inventors and scientists. They view a film about Vivien Thomas and a breakthrough surgery in 1944.
Unit: Volunteering as Good Work
Grades:
K
1
2
Students become more aware of the variety of jobs required to run the school. They also demonstrate appreciation for the work of different people through a bulletin board display and respectful behavior.
Unit: Power of One—Everyday Heroes for the Common Good (The)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will identify and celebrate their everyday heroes contributions to the common good in their community.
Unit: Just What Is a YAC (Youth Advisory Committee)?
Grades:
3
4
5
To organize and write a grant proposal to complete an identified service project.