Grades:
6
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8
Learners read about and discuss Fair Trade and how it relates to justice, fairness, and equity.
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Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Unit: Your Place in the Community (10th Grade)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners identify their personal values/beliefs and compare them to the values/beliefs of their peers. They discuss how their values influence their decisions about personal action for the common good.
Focus Question: How does an individual use personal interests...
Unit: Growing Our Future
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Grades:
K
1
2
The learners will use their time, talent, and treasure for the common good by transplanting trees in a common area.
Unit: Keeping Our Pets Safe in an Emergency
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson is designed to help the learners understand how important it is to be prepared for an emergency situation and how it relates to animal welfare. The learners will use the information gained in this and other lessons to develop a plan of service in response...
Unit: Global Garbage
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Grades:
6
7
8
To create empathy and help learners recognize some of the adverse effects of the careless actions of people.
Unit: My Water, Our Water
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Grades:
3
4
5
Participants identify the impact of humans on lakes and rivers and their respective ecosystems, and citizen responsibility to protect the waterways.
Unit: Helping Refugees
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students share what they have learned about refugees and how to help them in a symposium format. Each small group selects a different subtopic related to refugees. They create and present a paper or speech for an event or website. They invite an audience and raise awareness about refugees and...
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
In this two-part lesson, students view a film and read about the work of UNHCR with refugees. They complete a worksheet about protection of and support for refugees and then discuss the topics in a fishbowl-style discussion group.
Unit: Oil Changes Everything
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Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will enable the learners to better understand the effects of oil spills on the living organisms in an ecosystem.
Unit: Beneficial Bees
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Grades:
PreK
K
1
2
3
4
5
Students learn about the role of bees as pollinators and learn about reasons their population numbers have been declining in recent years. They write a letter or create a handout to teach others how to help bees through planting native species....