Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson emphasizes the importance of respecting others and their opinions. Students will delve deeper into their understandings of friendship and compromise, and work on a collaborative project to apply what they have learned.
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Unit: Teaching Tolerance (Private-Religious)
Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students role-play familiar scenarios in ways that follow the rules and support straightforward communication and also ways that do not support the rules. They discuss the value of rules for promoting the common good. This lesson extends over this class period and the next (Lesson Three is a...
Unit: Freedom, Fairness and Philanthropy
Grades:
K
1
2
The concept of freedom as a Core Democratic Value will be described through the story of Harriet Tubman. Learners will understand why unselfish people risk their lives to help others and serve the common good....
Unit: Refugees and Human Rights
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students identify the message communicated in the visual image of a poster. Then student groups create a skit with a small group that communicates the same message in a different format. The groups write, practice and perform their skits. Then the class comments on the...
Unit: It's Goin' Down; The Rain Forest
Grades:
6
7
8
Working with current statistics, youth articulate the repercussions of rainforest destruction and how this destruction may personally affect them if deforestation continues at its present pace....
Unit: Social Action Project (The)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will share their experiences volunteering for a philanthropic organization with others.
Unit: Give It Back from a Snack
Grades:
K
1
2
The students explore different ways to earn and use money through a variety of children’s books. They also see that money gives decision-making power.
Unit: Global Peace and Local Legacies
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson introduces the students to Alfred Nobel and his legacy, the Nobel Peace Prize. Students will learn about the paradox between intent and purpose as related to Alfred Nobel, review the criteria used to award the Nobel Peace Prize and reflect on how...
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students cite examples of respect/disrespect from the historical biography of Cynthia Ann Parker.
Unit: GivingTuesday
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Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
We define philanthropy and discuss the joy of giving, as well as various ways to give through nonprofits in the community. We learn how GivingTuesday, an international initiative, focuses on generosity and the power of social media and combining efforts with others to make a big...