Grades:
6
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8
Students analyze survey results, choose a community health need, and design a service project to address it.
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Unit: How the Cookie Crumbles
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Grades:
K
1
2
Students will create a backdrop of all the students' hands linked together to show trust within the classroom. This will be used later in the Unit. This activity is designed to keep the students focused on trusting one another.
Unit: Be the Change: Core Values
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students explore identity traits through some reflection and discussion activities. They discuss how a community is strengthened by similarities and differences among them. Each student writes a biographical poem using the provided template and their discussion notes.
Unit: The Carter Center and Volunteerism
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson presents a model of a modern day philanthropist and responsible citizen, Jimmy Carter.
Unit: Cultural Diversity in Service
Grades:
9
10
11
12
In this lesson, students identify personal qualities that are a result of their culture, experience, and genetics that make them similar to and different from others. Through active participation and response to an audio recording, they learn that rethinking first impressions about people can...
Unit: Philanthropic Behavior
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Grades:
K
1
2
Students will increase their respect for nature through kind acts. They will discuss ecology, recycling, and how their environment affects them.
Unit: Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger
Grades:
K
1
2
In this the lesson the students learn basic facts about nutrition. They design "Stop Hunger Buckets" for the purpose of collecting coins to donate to a nonprofit organization. They create posters to inform other students about hunger and the fundraising campaign. The students write journal ...
Unit: Investing In Others (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students compare how they spend their time to how Alexander from Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday spent his money. They discuss positive incentives for donating money and make a plan....
Grades:
3
4
5
Students explore the ways people around the world earn and spend money. They brainstorm possible careers and graph their personal interests on a class graph....
Unit: Cultural Pluralism in Young Adult Literature—Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Grades:
6
7
8
Using award winning literature, the learners will describe and analyze bigotry in Mississippi during the Great Depression. They will also define and give examples of community capital in the rural community where the story takes place and explain the importance of family. Learners will recognize...