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This lesson introduces the definition of a community and explores how communities come together to help or address a need.
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Unit: Living In a Community
Unit: Power and Race in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Grades:
6
7
8
We observe how power and privilege are used to keep African American families oppressed even after they were freed from slavery.
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Working in small groups, learners match the classic hero traits to an activist who took social action for the common good.
Unit: TeachOne for Earth Day
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Grades:
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What are the forces in our lives that separate us from the outdoors today, and what can we do to fuel up on the power of nature? In this lesson, young people research the benefits of being outside and the human impact on the environment or about environmental justice issues with a...
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Grades:
6
7
8
Young people get outside and play in nature and recognize the beauty of diverse living things in their environment. Their service project is to take action to protect nature and share nature with someone else.
Unit: Grow Involved 6-8
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Grades:
6
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8
Young people learn about environmental stewardship and its importance to all people. They carry out a service project that demonstrates environmental stewardship.
Unit: Refugees: Finding a Place
Grades:
K
1
2
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5
Participants learn what it is like to be a refugee through pictures, video, and stories. They build empathy and do an activity that simulates choices refugees must make.
Unit: Hurricane Katrina / Great Hanshin-Awaji Disaster Collaboration
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The learners will become aware of human need brought about by natural disasters and will compare domestic experiences with parallel events on the other side of the world.
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Unit: Our Unique Legacy of Giving
Grades:
6
7
8
This beautiful documentary The Gift of All: a Community of Givers shares the motivations and attributes of the generous people interviewed. In response, the learners create their own short biographies of philanthropists in their community.
Unit: Art as Advocacy
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Grades:
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The learners view works of art that advocate for social change and find that art can influence social change. The learners select an issue of human rights and create a work of art that represents the issue. They write a paragraph of explanation about their work.