Grades:
5
These activities help youth see the web of communities to which they belong and define what it means to be a member of a community.
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Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Unit: Environment: Sustaining Our World (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The students will write a "Safe Water" pledge and may choose to sign it indicating action they will personally take to assure sustainable, safe water. They will create persuasive products to share their knowledge of issues around safe drinking water.
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Unit: Investing In Others (9-12)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students examine how their personal choices with money and debt affect other people. The group will explore the following question: As consumers, how might the choices we make affect global poverty? The students plan and carry out a service project that advocates for financial responsibility....
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
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Grades:
3
4
5
The students will demonstrate self-respect by learning good habits for taking care of their emotional and physical health. The students will be provided with an opportunity to practice treating oneself and being treated by others with respect. They explore why caring for self and others is good...
Unit: Tote Challenge
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K
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12
#ToteChallenge: Young people investigate the problems caused by plastic shopping bags, then propose solutions they can take to address the problems. They brainstorm uses for plastic bags. This lesson gives guidelines to design a reusable shopping tote out of an old T-shirt using...
Unit: TeachOne: Words Bring Peace
Grades:
K
1
2
3
4
5
In this lesson, the students learn to use their voice to say something to make the world a better place. This is an opportunity to demonstrate and feel the impact of kindness, inclusion, and listening on a caring community. Students learn from a community helper about the needs they observe in...
Unit: This Land Is Our Land (Stewardship) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson guides students to recognize the importance of taking care of the world by reducing trash. Students will recognize the benefits of recycling and reusing....
Unit: To Recycle or Not to Recycle? That Shouldn't Even Be a Question!
Grades:
9
10
11
12
This lesson is intended to stimulate the learner’s thinking about recycling; who does it, what do they do, and why do they do it? The learners will investigate motivations for recycling that go beyond the economics of the practice and explore other thoughts and ideas that motivate some people to...
Unit: GivingTuesday
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PreK
K
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5
We discuss the joy of giving, as well as various ways to give through doing kind acts for people in the community. We learn how GivingTuesday is a day of giving that combines efforts with others around the world to make a big difference. Children follow their own interestes to make someone smile...
Unit: What Will You Bring to the Table? (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
In response to an activity involving unfair distribution of food, students explore what can be done to address the issue of child hunger in the United States. They conduct an investigation of hunger in the local community. Students join with a nonprofit organization and take action to address...