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Grades:
K
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The students select a community service learning project based on interests and abilities, and school/community needs. They plan and carry out the project.
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Unit: Living In a Community
Unit: Technology and Community Service Course at the Pingry School
Grades:
6
7
8
Students use standard software as they develop, research, and present a project related to community nonprofits.
Unit: Private Resources for the Common Good
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will describe the paradox of industrialist John D. Rockefeller a turn of the century monopolist and a generous philanthropist. They will give examples of how his philanthropy continues today through the work of the foundations that survived him. Robert W....
Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson clarifies that true rights are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Students discuss the importance of protecting these rights, and if and when it is ever appropriate to limit rights. We learn that one role of nonprofits is preserve and promote guaranteed rights....
Unit: Role of Philanthropy in an Ever Changing World (The)
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of this lesson is for students to develop an understanding of Philanthropy.
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To introduce students to examples of the major types of nonprofit organization: arts, education, environment, health, religion, and social services. Each site is representative of a nonprofit category and the visit is to give students an example of opportunities for giving....
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Unit: Are You a River Keeper?
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Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson explores the roles of government, nonprofits, businesses/farms and households in responding to water quality issues. Students will review why water is a scarce natural resource, human causes of water pollution, and possible agents of change in...
Unit: Nonprofits in Our World and Community (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will examine the role and impact of nonprofit organizations within their community and prepare to interview representatives.
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Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
7
8
To help students understand how nonprofit organizations effectively address issues of poverty, food insecurity, immigration, and disenfranchisement locally and globally. To help students experience and understand how farming works.
Unit: For Goodness Sake, Why Don't We Give More Power to the People?
Grades:
9
10
11
12
The learner will define the third sector and explain why it is important. Students will research United States nonprofit institutions, specifically those which minority groups accessed and used as an alternative power structure.