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6
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8
The intent of this lesson is to illustrate the relationship between air quality and its critical role in personal health concerns. Consequently, the awareness gained will serve to develop a sense of urgency in the quest for clean air.
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Unit: Our Air: The Quest for Quality
Unit: Spend, Save or Donate: Penny Drive
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson will introduce learners to the concept of raising resources to help others. The learners will discover reasons why people choose to donate.
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Unit: TeachOne for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students use visual literacy skills to analyze the components and message of an image. The students identify issues that are meaningful to them and create a simple image/message and then design a social media campaign to advocate for their issue. This lesson plan includes some optional...
Unit: Motivations for Giving: Penny Drive
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Explore the local community to identify nonprofit services available. They compare these to the services of business and government to understand the different sectors. They investigate motivations for nonprofits and individual giving.
Unit: Herstory in History
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Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the students will use the data collected from their surveys in Lesson Four: Bullying and Core Democratic Values on bullying in their school. They will analyze the information and take a position on whether or not bullying violates core...
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Grades:
6
7
8
Students will explain that a person does not have to be rich or famous to be considered a hero or philanthropist. In addition, students will discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on Kate Shelley and the town of Boone, Iowa in 1881.
Unit: Oil Changes Everything
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Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will allow the learners to have a hands-on experience investigating an oil spill. They will develop possible solutions to the problems that an oil spill creates for the environment.
Unit: Different! Diverse! Dynamic! (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
To teach children tolerance for differences through the understanding that people grow and develop at different rates.
Unit: Makes Cents to Me: Penny Drive
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson will introduce learners to the concept that nonprofit organizations need monetary resources in order help others. It will help students explore why people, including themselves, might donate money to these organizations. This lesson may be used with a penny drive or penny war to...
Unit: Banking on the Future: Penny Drive
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson explores concepts related to money. They read a fun picture book about spending and learn about saving. Learners discover that individuals and organizations give special gifts of money called endowments to nonprofit organizations and foundations. In this way the work of the...