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Grades:
6
7
8
Now familiar with how a community foundation serves the community, the learners form a Youth Advisory Committee and use parliamentary procedure to conduct business.
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Unit: Advise and Consent
Unit: Philanthropy—Essential to a Democratic Society
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will learn the fundamental principles of parliamentary procedure and use the procedure to create a plan for a service project in the community.
Unit: Doing Our Share
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will prepare to interview a business professional through role-playing.
Unit: Creating Student-Generated Classroom Rules
Grades:
9
10
11
12
By reviewing, debating, and voting on a final set of classroom rules that will govern classroom behavior, students will learn and participate in a democratic process related to the rule of law.
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students will identify problems related to class rules, develop proposed solutions, debate the proposals and vote on changes as needed.
Unit: Laws, What Are They Good For?
Grades:
3
4
5
Learners will demonstrate knowledge of the elements of community building, individual and civic responsibility. They will participate in the decision making process of rule, law and procedure making.
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
Learners define respect first without any input from the teacher or class discussion. Then as a group, they discuss the meaning of respect and differentiate it and contrast it with disrespectful behavior to self and others.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students play a simulation game that illustrates their power to take action for the good of others.
Grades:
6
7
8
In the final reflection, students connect the concepts of fairness and philanthropy through written response to a quote or personal experience.
Unit: Truth, Trash and Treasure
Grades:
6
7
8
Can a young person truly make a difference in our world? Learners will carry out an act of philanthropy by cleaning up a park. Learners will reflect on their experience and, through the use of literature, understand the importance of philanthropy, thus realizing that one person, a young adult,...