Learners will become more knowledgeable about the structures authors use to help young children learn to read. They will continue to work with a team of younger children using different strategies to verbalize their books. Learners will also identify themselves as philanthropists who help their...
Learners will actively help younger children write and edit their own pattern books. They will determine the value of their service learning project to the betterment of the community.
After being introduced to traditional quilt patterns and their historical significance, students will identify traditional quilt patterns that celebrated philanthropic activities.
Students learn about the scientific contributions of African American inventors and scientists. They view a film about Vivien Thomas and a breakthrough surgery in 1944.
Students examine the personal stories of various nonprofit leaders and relate them to the six Career Pathways. Students will discuss the ways that careers change throughout an individual's life as they pursue their passions. Students will also use the concept of passion to career to plan a...
The students distinguish between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. They identify nonprofit organizations in their community and create an information cube to share with their families to increase awareness of philanthropy within their own communities.
Students will decide on a service-learning project and create posters to advertise the event.
Learners collect, organize and interpret data as to the frequency of philanthropic actions performed by their families to determine the level of philanthropy within a sample of families within the school community.
This introduces the learners to a deck of playing cards, and teaches classification, taking turns, and clockwise movement....