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Grades:
K
1
2
Now that the need they want to address is identified, the children meet people in the community who address the need and others who may want to help them with their fundraiser.
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Unit: Let's Make Lemonade
Unit: Beneficial Bees
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Grades:
PreK
K
1
2
3
4
5
Students learn about the role of bees as pollinators and learn about reasons their population numbers have been declining in recent years. They write a letter or create a handout to teach others how to help bees through planting native species.
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Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn about the roles of bees in a colony and discuss how that relates to people in community. Bees have an important role in nature as pollinators, but their population numbers have been declining in recent years. Students write a letter or create a flyer to teach others how to help...
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Unit: Advise and Consent
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Participants will survey members of the community (school or local area) to determine a need, write proposals to satisfy the need, consider doing an optional one-day fundraiser to help fill that need, serve on a board of directors or a youth advisory...
Unit: Reporting on an Ideal World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners envision an ideal world characterized by principles of justice, kindness, peace, and belonging. They write articles for a fictitious newspaper called USA Tomorrow that reports on the ideal world. They will reflect in writing about one step they can take to make an...
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students collaboratively choose a community health need to address, plan the logistics for their service project, and document their planning process.
Unit: Sharing and Caring Across Generations
Grades:
K
1
2
Through multiple visits to a retirement home, letter writing, or by inviting seniors to an event, children learn effective communication, sensitivity to people of different generations, and shared experiences while learning about the common good and stewardship.
Unit: Living History-An Intergenerational Philanthropy Project
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson is a celebration to culminate this intergenerational project. The children make a final visit to the senior center or retirement home where all the participants gather for a snack and a farewell celebration. The children read aloud and give their published Living History Books to...
Unit: My Water, Our Water
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Grades:
3
4
5
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
To have students partner with a nonprofit organization to design and complete a service-learning project for that organization.
In the third trimester of the Urban EdVenture course, students begin work on the final project in collaboration with their homeroom teachers. Each...
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