Grades:
3
4
5
The purpose of the lesson is to help learners understand the importance of watersheds and ways in which they can reduce water pollution in their watershed. ...
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Unit: Watershed S.O.S. (Saving Our Sources)
Unit: Community Clean-Up
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Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
5
Students learn about the goals of Earth Day and identify areas in town that need clean-up or planting. They plan a day of service.
Teach this one-period lesson plan and follow it with a simple and powerful service project ...
Unit: My Country, My Community
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will describe requirements for naturalized citizens and explain how rights given to citizens also require civic responsibility. They will analyze the words of the National Anthem and update it with a new verse that includes today’s concept of freedom.
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students compare and contrast attributes of school systems across the globe. They will work in small groups to identify the successes and possible school improvements in their own school system and in vulnerable schools around the world.
Unit: Philanthropy—Essential to a Democratic Society
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will recognize the value of nonprofit organizations and identify how nonprofits meet citizen needs when government can't.
Unit: Whose Job Is It?
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
To identify and compare the roles of governments, economic systems, and the nonprofit sector in meeting the needs of people around the world.
Unit: Advise and Consent
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Grades:
6
7
8
Participants identify and compare the different roles of the four sectors of the economy (government, business, nonprofit, and family). They identify which sector does what and observe how they approach differently the sometimes overlapping...
Unit: Constitution Day
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Grades:
3
4
5
Students explore the components of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution and apply them to their own lives, with a particular emphasis on philanthropy. This lesson is designed for Citizenship/Constitution Day (September 17) and connects students to the community-building focus of the...
Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will examine the connection between the five basic guaranteed rights in the Bill of Rights and their corresponding responsibilities. This lesson will introduce sources of responsibilities and allow students the opportunity to predict...
Unit: For the Well-Being of Our Citizens
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The learners will analyze why nonprofit organizations are needed, especially when there are for profit and governmental institutions which do some of the same work. They will investigate an international and a local nonprofit which work to alleviate poverty in the community and describe the...