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Students analyze survey results, choose a community health need, and design a service project to address it.
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Grades:
6
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8
Students explore what it means to be responsible citizens and identify ways they are (or can be) responsible at home, in school, and in the community. They create a survey related to people's perceptions of community health and poll members of the community to identify needs.
Grades:
6
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8
Students examine their personal healthy habits and their school (and neighborhood) environments to collect information about nutrition and fitness in the community. Students consider what changes they can make to the...
Unit: Lights! Camera! Take Action!
Grades:
9
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The purpose of this session is to plan and develop a video documentary. Modeling their documentary after the West Michigan documentary The Gift of All, youth interview local philanthropists and create a multi-media story of their community and local philanthropy. Creating and sharing...
Unit: You Light up My Life
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In this lesson, young people research various types of renewable energy and write a persuasive statement about which energy source their city or county should invest in.
Unit: Tikkun Olam (Private-Religious)
Grades:
9
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Having gained an understanding of the need for the world to be fixed, the learners will now identify specific social problems and create projects and programs to help fix them.
Unit: This Land Is Our Land (Stewardship) (Private-Religious)
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K
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Although the problems of the environment seem overwhelming, if each person does a little, the problems can be reduced. Even small contributions make an impact on the environment. Students choose ways they can make an impact through their small...
Unit: Good Health in Our Community
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3
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5
Students explore the meaning of community and describe traits of a healthy classroom community. They develop a class definition of a healthy community and learn how to promote healthy habits in the school community.
Unit: Hands On Philanthropy: A High School Course at Kentucky Country Day School
Grades:
11
12
To bring members of the local and school community together to showcase what the students learned while taking the class.
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Unit: Cultural Competence
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In this lesson, youth become aware and gain empathy for the discrimination people experience because of their race, age, gender, and other reasons. The group discusses ways to be inclusive. A Mix it Up Day changes our familiar boundaries and helps us connect to new people.