Grades:
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Students learn about the history of foundations and the role individuals played in their development.
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Unit: Foundations: Unit Two of Establishing a Student-Run Foundation
Unit: Small Fish Stick Together (Kindergarten)
Grades:
K
1
2
Students will pantomime a book; identify the themes of community, caring and sharing; describe the advantages of cooperation for the common good; and describe how the characters’ experiences are alike and different from their own experiences.
Unit: Role of Philanthropy in an Ever Changing World (The)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will recognize the importance of philanthropic organizations by using timelines to match historical events to events in philanthropy.
Unit: Children Changing Hunger
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Grades:
K
1
2
This interdisciplinary unit involves working with staff to plan an evening fundraising meal and with the art teacher to create clay bowls. There are many "empty bowls" within a community, and students get involved in planning and advertising for a dinner to fill them for one night. ...
Unit: Real Heroes
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Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson introduces the term philanthropy (private action for the common good) and helps youth recognize the relationship between community need and private action. Youth learn the meaning of philanthropy and ways in which it occurs in the home, at school, and in the community....
Unit: Giving to Others (Tzedakah) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson will teach Maimonides’ (Rambam’s) Eight Levels of Charity as quoted in the Mishneh Torah, his book of Jewish laws and concepts. The learner will understand the Eight Levels of Charity, the reasons behind the hierarchy, and how these levels apply to today’s...
Unit: Respecting the Environment (Private-Religious)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson will teach learners G-d’s appreciation for trees and the importance of planting and preserving trees for our future. The learners will identify these concepts in Biblical verses, Talmudic passages and modern Jewish associations. They will also develop an understand of and an...
Unit: Welcome to Middle School
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Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, students analyze and define the concept of community. The middle-school students identify their responsibilities for the common good in their role as citizens in the school community. They list ways they can help the younger students enter their school community successfully....
Unit: Go, Johnny, Go!
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Grades:
K
1
2
In this culminating lesson, the students share what they have learned about Johnny Appleseed and philanthropy. The students make invitations using apple stamps. They also make applesauce using age-appropriate math skills.
Unit: Farm to Table and Food Security
Grades:
6
7
8
Students clarify the goals and parameters of their project based on the call to action from Lesson One. They use critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to determine what they know about the project and what they need to know (questions/inquiry about the project). The teacher provides a...