Grades:
6
7
8
Reflecting on a quote or a personal experience, students will share their thinking on responsibility defined as following through on a committment or task.
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Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 7)
Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
This third lesson on integrity focuses on Frederik de Klerk as an example of integrity.
Unit: Opening Our Hearts and Hands to Others (Tzedakah)
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson focuses on eight levels of tzedakah (charity) that were identified by a great Jewish thinker known as Rabbi Moses Maimonides. Students will investigate various ways to give charity and gain an appreciation of how people give of their time, talent or treasure. They will...
Unit: Hands On Philanthropy: A High School Course at Kentucky Country Day School
Grades:
11
12
To help students understand topics related to grantmaking and philanthropy through the experiences and perspectives of members of local philanthropic organizations.
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Unit: Common Good in Aztec Culture
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore different forms of sacrifice for the common good and answer the question: When is a sacrifice justified and necessary, and when is it a violation of individual rights? Students write a personal goal to make a small sacrifice for the common good.
Unit: Generosity of Spirit Folktales
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Native Americans are located geographically across the entire continent of North America. Their culture varies as much as their locations as they each have their own traditions. This lesson focuses on seven Native American groups and their folktales as they relate to generosity of the spirit...
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Through a reading of the Australian Aboriginal folktale, The Secret of Dreaming, learners will describe what this creation tale reveals about the culture of the Aboriginals and will explain mankind’s permanent responsibility as caretaker of the land....
Unit: Let's Make Lemonade
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Students will work together to make a list of needs for the lemonade sale. They will also work to meet those needs with support from community businesses.
Unit: Book Builders
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Grades:
6
7
8
In an effort to make an awesome school year, students draft and share a simple book describing the strengths and needs at the school to challenge everyone to make the school great. They learn the importance of community/social capital by building positive experiences with students of...
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
In an effort to strengthen the notion that individual voluntary action can have a significant impact, students will create books where one key historical figure's actions turn from philanthropic to selfish. They will imagine what the world would be like in the absence of great...