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Students experience working and unemployment through a very simplified role play.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
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Students explore the effects of hunger and its role in the lives of children.
Unit: Global Health: Food Around the World
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In this lesson, young people examine their typical diet for 24 hours. They analyze the nutritional content and discuss why diets differ by culture, region, and economics.
Unit: We Are Partners in the Work of Creation (Tikkun Olam) (Private-Religious)
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This lesson will introduce learners to a number of texts from classical and modern sources on the topic of how the work of tikun olam is to be performed. From these texts, the learners will derive rules for Jewish living and apply those rules, along with input from family members, to...
Unit: Art for the Common Good—Junkanoo!
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In this lesson, groups work together to make their headdresses based on a common design. Each person makes their own headdress that fits the group theme but has their own style or cultural uniqueness. The groups compete against each other, so the group...
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 7)
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Learners listen to the lyrics of the song "Hero" by Mariah Carey. They explore the feelings and actions that go along with being a hero.
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Learners identify examples of courage from an article about Jackie Robinson.
Unit: Teamwork: Unit One of Establishing a Student-Run Foundation
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Unit: Writers as Activists
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By reading about her life and her work, students will understand how Mary Eliza Church Terrell’s writing and activism brought about change for African Americans and women.
Unit: Dear Philanthropist
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Based on researched information, participants write a bio-poem about a philanthropist.