Grades:
6
7
8
Students will learn how to participate in a needs assessment for their local community.
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Unit: Role of Philanthropy in an Ever Changing World (The)
Unit: Community Health and Safety
Grades:
3
4
5
Students create lists of health and safety issues. Through cooperative methods, the learners construct an original health and safety survey of issues affecting their community.
Unit: Pet Care and Safety
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Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson will enable learners to discuss what people need to provide for pets to insure their welfare. Learners will use vocabulary and ideas from previous lessons to generate a plan to provide care and compassion for shelter pets. The plan will inform and involve...
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Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson is based on key terms and vocabulary dealing with animal welfare and animal care. Concepts will be defined and discussed in a whole group setting. Learners will compare their own needs to a pet's needs....
Unit: Call to Action: Intro. to Philanthropy
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners will investigate their resources of time, talent and treasure and brainstorm how these can be used to address community needs/issues or problems in their school, neighborhood and larger community. They will investigate nonprofit organizations that contribute to the common...
Unit: Time, Talent, Treasure, and Economics
Grades:
3
4
5
The students will write, illustrate and publish individual books describing the volunteer opportunity and their knowledge of philanthropic and economic concepts.
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students analyze survey results, choose a community health need, and design a service project to address it.
Unit: Giving of Treasure: Heart and Mind
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will become informed about needs within the local community. Using personal experience as members of the community and information provided by a knowledgeable person in the community, students will decide where the need is greatest. Because scarcity of resources requires careful...
Unit: Getting to Know the Community
Grades:
6
7
8
To have students understand and identify the needs of the community.
Unit: Refugees: Finding a Place
Grades:
3
4
5
The students will learn to distinguish the difference between wants and needs. They will distinguish between wants and needs by completing an activity in which they must categorize items into wants or needs. Students will learn that many times refugees are without resources to meet basic needs...