Grades:
6
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8
To help students understand the challenges of feeding a family a healthy meal on a limited budget.
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Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Unit: Where Does It All Come From? Penny Drive
Grades:
K
1
2
Students gain awareness that community organizations need resources (money and materials) to help people in need. Students may organize a penny drive to raise funds for a chosen community organization.
Focus Question: How can we use time and talent to raise treasure for a community need...
Unit: Superheroes as Philanthropists
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will understand the difference between a theme, a moral, and a topic, and to be able to identify the theme of a piece of literature.
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...
Unit: Each One, Teach One
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Grades:
3
4
5
Through planning and implementing a reading Buddies Program, learners will recognize the importance of being actively involved in helping others in our school community
Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
Learners write early childhood creative books to present to new mothers or the local school library/media center to be read by very young children. They summarize their observations and feelings in their Learning Logs and reflect on the concepts of philanthropy, stewardship, advocacy,...
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World (K-2)
Grades:
K
1
2
This unit helps students recognize that they belong to a global community that shares resources and interests. Learners define "commons" and understand the difference between common resources and private property. The learners define stewardship and environmental stewardship. They will compare...
Unit: Herstory in History
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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:
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...
Unit: Social Reformer—Jane Addams
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Jane Addams is used as a model to demonstrate a philanthropist in action, improving many situations, not only in the city of Chicago, but also at state, national and international levels.