Grades:
6
7
8
Students examine their personal healthy habits and their school (and neighborhood) environments to collect information about nutrition and fitness in the community. Students consider what changes they can make to the school or...
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students conduct and evaluate their service project, then celebrate their success. After the service project, invite guests, volunteers, community members, and other students to celebrate with the class.
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (K-2)
Grades:
K
1
2
Students define community and recognize that a class or after-school group is a community because the members share interests and goals and work together. Focus Questions: What is a community and what is my role? What is health and why is it important?
Unit: Community Health and Safety
Grades:
3
4
5
Participants gain exposure to how citizens organize in response to a need. They observe the benefits of group cooperation. They review data they have collected from surveys and work in collaborative groups to identify focus areas for the service-learning project.
Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
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
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Unit: What Respect Means to Me
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Grades:
3
4
5
In this activity, the learners discuss and illustrate what it means to show respect for their personal identity, values, and emotions.
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Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger around the World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners describe good nutritional practices and make a plan to eat healthy.
Unit: No Boundaries
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Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
We're all the same in one basic way: We all want other people to understand us. In this lesson, youth learn about needs of differently abled children in their school or community and take a step toward removing barriers. They use the persuasive power of communication to raise awareness of ways to understand and show respect for people with disabilities through a service project.
Unit: Courage of the Heart
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Grades:
6
7
8
Participants learn about the scientific contributions of African American inventors and scientists today and in the past.
Unit: Air Pollution and Asthma
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Young people gain awareness of the negative effects of air pollution, especially asthma. They research and identify some of the sources of air pollution in the school and community and possible ways to improve air quality in these areas.