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Grades:
K
1
2
Students learn new card-playing vocabulary, classify by attributes, practice counting, and follow rules to cooperatively play a game.
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Unit: Let's Play and Learn
Unit: Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the Globe (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students recognize examples of food waste and understand that waste has an impact beyond themselves. They learn that many people in the world do not have the choice of what to eat due to food insecurity. They read about a girl in Uganda whose hungry family received the gift of a goat through...
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: Meeting Needs through Sharing
Grades:
6
7
8
Raise learner's awareness and understanding of "homelessness" and difficulties people experience with poverty. The learners discuss the benefits of giving to others and reflect on ways they might address the needs of people living in poverty in their community.
Unit: Philanthropy in Literature
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will define philanthropy as "sharing or giving time, talent or treasure for the common good."
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students analyze the meaning of personal best and recognize the value of persistence in doing their best.
Unit: Refugees: Finding a Place (K-2)
Grades:
K
1
2
The students will distinguish the difference between wants and needs. They distinguish between wants and needs by completing an activity in which they must categorize items into wants or needs. Students learn that many times refugees are without basic needs. They respond to a story about a...
Unit: What a Wonderful World—Changes Through Time
Grades:
3
4
5
The purpose of this lesson is to help students become aware that their city has changed over the years—in some ways for the better and other ways for the worse. Students analyze why preserving old buildings is important enough to some people that they give their time, talent, and treasure. They...
Unit: Building a Caring and Inclusive Classroom
Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
5
At the beginning of the year we get to create our classroom community. We get to decide how we will learn and grow and play with each other for the rest of the year. This is a new beginning for all. As we start to decide what...
Unit: Philanthropy—A Day at the Beach
Grades:
3
4
5
The teacher will introduce the concept of philanthropy and lay the groundwork for the students to participate as philanthropists in the International Coastal Cleanup, a volunteer action for the common good.