Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, students learn that human rights laws include "conventions" that protect children's rights. They identify the mission of Save the Children and recognize the need for taking action to save children around the world....
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Unit: Newborn and Child Survival (6-8)
Unit: Be the Change: Personal Health
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students learn about the importance of sleep and analyze their own rest patterns. They determine how they can improve their own sleep health.
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students look at the role exercise plays in overall health. They make a plan to engage younger children in more active play and exercise....
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
7
8
To help students understand how nonprofit organizations effectively address issues of poverty, food insecurity, immigration, and disenfranchisement locally and globally. To help students experience and understand how farming works.
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
Youth research and report back to the group about the nonprofit organizations that are serving their community and the many facets of community life that nonprofits are involved in.
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Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger—Around the Block, Around the World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will describe how hunger and malnutrition are related, but not the same problems. They will recognize hunger as a universal theme in literature and analyze the role of the four sectors of society in solving problems of hunger in the community.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
The students investigate their perceptions about bullying and its relationship to respect. Students brainstorm ways to promote respect of self and others as individuals and as a class/school.
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners discuss a quote from Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and reflect on the meaning of respect for themselves as individuals. They commit their support to a plan for promoting respect in their school.
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners identify the motivations of Jackie Robinson. They discuss what could make some people do something difficult even when they are afraid....