Youth discuss and examine ways to influence healthy food choices related to their interests and understanding. They brainstorm service projects and use a decision-making model to choose a project. They implement their service project and reflect on their action.
Children explore what it means to be responsible in school and in the community as a responsible citizen. They take action as responsible citizens to make the community healthier.
Students form groups, sign group agreements, delegate tasks, and begin forming their service-learing project proposal. The teacher provides mini-lessons to individuals, as needed, who bring information back to groups on presentation skills, budgeting, and service-learning procedure.
Learners dissect the trait of honesty by describing what it feels and looks like, defining it, and giving examples and nonexamples.
The learners build on their understanding, seeking actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
Young people convince others to take care of the beach or protect the Earth. They write an essay or make an advocacy poster.
To produce paintings or drawings that represent their “Dream of Peace” and that are submitted to an art competition.
A teacher using this lesson can look for art competitions locally or nationally that are sponsored by a museum, organization, or school district; a teacher might...
Children interview and write a story about a person in their family or community. They share their stories to celebrate the unique differences in people in the community.
To work together, see the big picture, and think about the connection between individuals in the group as students participate in the activity.
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Youth research and report back to the group about the nonprofit organizations that are serving their community and the many facets of community life that nonprofits are involved in.
Author: Urban EdVenture Faculty