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Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson will define philanthropy. It will focus on specific needs and how to request grants from various foundations.
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Unit: Closer to the Ground
Unit: Be the Change: Global Health
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students research the names, causes, and symptoms of common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). They identify resources someone can turn to for help with STDs and propose and carry out a plan to teach others about STDs.
Unit: Pitch In — A Philanthropic Puppet Project
Grades:
3
4
5
The purpose of this lesson is to explore what it means to be an environmentalist. Students will work in small groups to research an environmental issue—facts and solutions. The research will be conducted using at least three different types of resources (Internet, magazine, book, video or...
Unit: Put Your Hands in Mine (6th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students connect the concepts/practices of fairness, justice, tolerance, togetherness, and equality to the advancement of human and civil rights. Students share ideas about how they can promote the common good and lead positive social changes.
Unit: We ARE the Government
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, learners identify different levels of participation in a democracy. Each student writes a statement describing what type of citizen he or she would like to be. In groups of 4-6 students, the learners create an audio or visual presentation advocating for civic responsibility. They...
Unit: Growing an Environmental Steward
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The purpose of this lesson is for the learners to experience putting to use, in their school and/or community, what they have learned about landscape design and gardening.
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore what it means to be responsible citizens and identify ways they are (or can be) responsible at home, in school, and in the community. They create a survey related to people's perceptions of community health and poll members of the community to identify needs....
Unit: Pondering the Impermeable
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The purpose of this lesson is to engage the learners in the topic of environmental stewardship as it relates to the responsible use of land masses.
Unit: Growing a Citizen
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The students will put their personal mission statements on responsible citizenship into practice by influencing public policy.
Unit: Surviving Auschwitz (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson focuses on two young Jewish survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi death camp. As they return to their home town and the concentration camp, they each tell their story and explain why they were willing to return to such an emotionally devastating place. Their story is...