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...
The young people reflect upon themselves as community members and use descriptive language to give themselves meaningful names.
Using Guidestar as a source, young people identify three nonprofits and their mission statements.
Young people read about Jewish role models who partake in tikkun olam. They reflect on how they can use their behavior as a model for their own philanthropy to perfect the world.
Young people make puppets out of recycled materials. They use their creativity to come up with a movable puppet that represents a character in their puppet play.
Through a fable, learners discuss how generosity improves the quality of life in their communities.
A picture book biography tells the story of the life and philanthropy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Youth learn about the work of African American inventors who had a positive influence on society by contributing scientific innovation for the common good.
The children learn that even young people can be philanthropists. Philanthropy is giving time, talent, treasure for the good of the community.
Reviewing current political cartoons related to justice, equity, and racism, learners identify how language and humor act as a form of social action. They create their own cartoons or statement promoting or showing the damage of one of these themes.