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Students build on their understanding about homelessness, seeking to discover the actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
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Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
Unit: Welcome Home
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Students learn about the Habitat for Humanity ReStore as a community resource for affordable housing materials for building and home repair. Students use comparison shopping skills and plan a service project that addresses a need in their community.
Unit: Advise and Consent
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Now familiar with how a community foundation serves the community, the learners form a Youth Advisory Committee and use parliamentary procedure to conduct business.
Unit: Be the Change: Workplace Readiness
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Learners will determine the difference between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. They will investigate jobs in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, and reflect on their own job related interests and skills. Students will create a resume, geared toward gaining employment in a particular...
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Students will learn what it means to be "professional" in various workplace environments and will continue to prepare to seek employment....
Unit: Foundations: Unit Two of Establishing a Student-Run Foundation
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Students learn about the different types of foundations and how they differ from other nonprofits. They collaborate to explore what needs their own foundation will address.
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Unit: Be the Change: Environment
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Students utilize classroom learning and multimedia projects to identify key aspects of urban ecosystems and explore the concept of environmental justice locally and globally.
Unit: Be the Change: Life Skills
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Students engage in a variety of activities that teach the value of budgeting and fundraising. They will investigate the concept of enlightened self-interest and how that correlates to good time and money management and civic engagement....
Unit: Dear Freshman
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In this one period lesson, students explore the impact of sharing their experience to make a difference to someone who hasn't had an experience yet. They learn about "paying it forward," also known as serial reciprocity. Students will facilitate a service project that revolves around...
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
Play matching games on teams to gain familiarity with terms associated with philanthropy.
Author: Urban EdVenture Faculty...
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