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9
10
11
12
Learners will make preparations for conducting interviews. Each learner will devise specific questions directly related to the interviewee and their contribution to the common good during a specific period of time.
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Unit: Time Traveler - Intergenerational Interviews
Grades:
9
10
11
12
High school learners will design and present information from their historical narrative projects to other learners (elementary, middle or high school level). Learners will reflect on how the interview experience has affected their attitudes toward the elderly.
Unit: Diverse Community: Who Is My Neighbor? (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students interview and write a story about a person in their family or community. They share their stories to celebrate the unique differences in people in the community....
Unit: Living History-An Intergenerational Philanthropy Project
Grades:
3
4
5
In this lesson the students prepare for their visit to the retirement home. First the students create and use a personal timeline and questionnaire to write their autobiographies to be used as the author page in the Living History Book. The class will work together to come up with questions to...
Unit: Careers and Nonprofit Organizations
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will visually present their findings from Lesson One. They investigate a local nonprofit through an interview with an employee and orally present this information.
Unit: Phil's Community Connections
Grades:
3
4
5
In this lesson, students interview elderly people in their community asking specific questions regarding their connections to philanthropy. The students recognize that the community is connected in many ways through generations and over time with a common purpose of making the community more...
Unit: Community Philanthropy
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Grades:
3
4
5
Participants gain awareness about the work of local nonprofit organizations through research and by interviewing representatives. They summarize the mission, needs, and impact of the organizations on the community.
Unit: Be the Change: Violence
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will explore the causes and effects of bullying and brainstorm ways to address the problem....
Unit: Philanthropy, You, and Your World
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of this lesson is to have students develop appropriate interview questions, interview a philanthropic organization, and present information to the class. This lesson is a continuation from Lesson One: Characterizing Philanthropic People.
Unit: Lights! Camera! Take Action!
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The purpose of this lesson is for students to plan and develop a video documentary. Modeling their documentary after the West Michigan documentary The Gift of All, students create a multi-media story of their community and local philanthropy. Creating and sharing the documentary is an...