Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn about the characteristics of an effective personal narrative and compare those to a news article. They do prewriting activities and practice writing details to show rather than tell about an experience.
Filter by subjects:
Filter by audience:
Filter by unit » issue area:
find a lesson
Unit: Telling Our Stories of Giving
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn effective techniques and complete prewriting activities for writing a persuasive essay. As a culmination of the unit, students choose one of the three styles of writing--news article, personal narrative, or persuasive essay--to write, edit, and publish about their experience with...
Unit: Mighty Pens: Writers for Positive Change
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners write personal narratives to document activities, insights, research, impact, and discoveries of their firsthand experience with civic engagement, service, and volunteerism. By explaining involvement in action for the common good, learners raise awareness of a social issue, the need for...
Unit: Philanthropy and You
Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
Through class visits, students will complete an Academic Service-Learning Project, interacting individually with senior citizens.
Unit: Each One, Teach One
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: Social Action Project (The)
Grades:
6
7
8
The students will write a business letter to the service professional organization they have chosen requesting information about the organization and its cause. This information will be the foundation for the research paper each student will write.
Unit: Writers as Activists
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will identify causes that they care about and use writing as a tool to make a difference, using the persuasive writing techniques that they identified in previous lessons, by either writing to a lawmaker or a letter to the editor of a newspaper.
Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore ways to be honest in communication, writing with clear purpose and honest intent.
Unit: Just What Is a YAC (Youth Advisory Committee)?
Grades:
3
4
5
To organize and write a grant proposal to complete an identified service project.
Unit: Kids Can Make a Difference
Grades:
3
4
5
The classroom is matched up with another classroom in the country or the world. The students communicate by letter or e-mail and compare characteristics of place such as methods of transportation, weather, resources and culture. Students will eventually work with their pen pal classroom to...