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Youth Activity: Students brainstorm time, talent, and treasure examples that they have to offer/give. The activity will ask each person to think of some ways he/she can generate money.
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Unit: Roots of Philanthropy (Teen)
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Youth Activity: This ten-minute activity is a good workshop energizer to take a break, refresh student energy, and have fun learning the word philanthropy....
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Unit: This Land Is Our Land (Stewardship) (Private-Religious)
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K
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Although the problems of the environment seem overwhelming, if each person does a little, the problems can be reduced. Even small contributions make an impact on the environment. Students choose ways they can make an impact through their small...
Unit: Writers as Activists
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Students will recognize the linguistic strategies that Alice Walker uses in her introduction to Anything You Love Can Be Saved that persuade readers to believe in her causes, and thus begin to think about techniques that they can use in their own activist writing, which they will do in...
Unit: Farm to Table and Food Production
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6
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Students present their projects to the whole class and reflect on the presentations. Students discuss action they can take through service-learning. ...
Unit: Phil Up on the Arts
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K
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Discuss when permission is needed in order to perform an act of philanthropy. Learn and practice a song about giving. ...
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
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To help students understand how nonprofit organizations effectively address issues of poverty, food insecurity, immigration, and disenfranchisement locally and globally. To help students experience and understand how farming works.
Unit: TeachOne Back to School
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Students learn about the environmental effect of crayons and their own power to make an impact. Students collect gently used crayons from restaurants and other places in the community. They sort them by color, repackage them for re-use, add a kind note, and donate the new packages where they...
Unit: My Country, My Community
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Grades:
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While reviewing the expectations for immigrants to become citizens, young people learn about their own rights and civic responsibility. They learn that freedom isn't free. It was purchased by service and requires continued responsibility of citizens to uphold the rights and expectations of the...
Unit: Buzzing is BEE-lieving
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Sometimes we let negative words of others or our own doubts stop us from doing what we know we can. Children reflect on the importance of positive words and actions to make a strong community.