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Grades:
9
10
11
12
The purpose of this lesson is to integrate and apply the concepts identified, discussed, and evaluated in the first three lessons of this unit to a local community service project that will promote the common good....
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Unit: Out of the Ashes of WWII
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
To provide an opportunity for students who can maintain a vision of a goal their group has to achieve, to show leadership and coach their group members towards the goal. Helium Hoop also creates a space in which leaders can learn to sense the energy of a group. Often times, a...
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Grades:
5
To show students that everyone is part of the big picture and that the skills needed to take care of a small community of individuals are similar to those needed to care for a larger community.
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Unit: Money and Credit: Making Good Decisions (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce middle school learners to the complex economic world of responsible credit use, including installment credit and credit cards. The learners will identify the uses as well as the abuses of various forms of credit, including installment loans and credit...
Unit: Philanthropy—Sharing Our Time, Talent and Treasure with Family and Friends
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners collect, organize and interpret data as to the frequency of philanthropic actions performed by their families to determine the level of philanthropy within a sample of families within the school community.
Unit: What Does It Take?
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will become aware of women and minority figures who have made a difference in a civil society.
Unit: Truth, Trash and Treasure
Grades:
6
7
8
Can a young person truly make a difference in our world? Learners will carry out an act of philanthropy by cleaning up a park. Learners will reflect on their experience and, through the use of literature, understand the importance of philanthropy, thus realizing that one person, a young adult,...
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
Learners define respect first without any input from the teacher or class discussion. Then as a group, they discuss the meaning of respect and differentiate it and contrast it with disrespectful behavior to self and others.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students play a simulation game that illustrates their power to take action for the good of others.
Unit: Sharing with Others (Private-Religious)
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson emphasizes the value of each individual’s uniqueness. Students will learn to appreciate differences by comparing and contrasting fruit and using all of the fruit to create a tasty fruit salad.