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Students reach consensus on who to recognize and plan and deliver the recognition.
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Unit: Smiles Change the World
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: We the People... Project
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Grades:
9
10
11
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Students will use various investigative procedures to compile a list of government or volunteer service opportunities.
Unit: Social Justice: Here! There! Now! Then!
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson will explain how effective writers and orators manage language in order to move others to action for the common good. By exploring principles of rhetoric and effective communication, the learners will see that they too can marshal words to effect change on contemporary issues they...
Unit: Using Our Talents for the Common Good
Grades:
K
1
2
Students will listen to a grant-making foundation representative and complete a grant request form.
Unit: What Is Philanthropy?
Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
Using the plays from the previous lesson as a jumpstart, youth carry out a plan to share time and talent in the community. They may help at a local food pantry or donation center. After the visit, they reflect on the impact of their contribution to...
Unit: Different! Diverse! Dynamic! (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will plan a service project for children in their community, celebrating respect through understanding diversity, selflessness and cooperation.
Unit: Different! Diverse! Dynamic! (K-2)
Grades:
K
1
2
Students will plan a service project for children in their community, celebrating respect through understanding diversity, selflessness and cooperation.
Unit: Humans and Nature Flourishing Together
Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Through analyzing a Ted Talk by Robin Wall Kimmerer, participants develop their understanding of what it means to respond with gratitude to the gifts from the Earth. Participants expand their awareness of the interdependent relationship between humans and nature. Kimmerer motivates and...
Unit: Nonprofits and Careers
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners learn the characteristics and impact of the nonprofit sector and distinguish it from the for-profit sector. They identify the mission statement in a familiar nonprofit organization....