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Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
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Students explore how charity and philanthropy address hunger and poverty.
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Students explore the effects of hunger and its role in the lives of children.
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Students explore the causes and impacts of hunger, and how hunger differs depending on location.
Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
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To help students understand the challenges of feeding a family a healthy meal on a limited budget.
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To help students understand how nonprofit organizations effectively address issues of poverty, food insecurity, immigration, and disenfranchisement locally and globally. To help students experience and understand how farming works.
Unit: Road Less Traveled
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We compare and contrast the beliefs of the three cultures explored in lessons 1-4 to one's own family traditions - similarities and differences.
Unit: Philanthropy at Home and Abroad
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Students read an old quote about the interconnection of all life on the planet and recognize that we are each affected by what happens to others and the environment. They will analyze current local, state, national and international issues addressed in the evening news. They become...
Unit: Philanthropy: Individuals and Their Surroundings
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An activity and picture book discussion illustrate the tendency for people to see differences as a reason to fight. As we see in political divisions, society can be torn apart by factions. Differences provide an opportunity to be curious about someone else. Factions may also have a...
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Unit: Opening Our Hearts and Hands to Others (Tzedakah)
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Using texts and experiential learning experiences, this lesson emphasizes the reasons why giving tzedakah, or charity, is a fundamental concept in Judaism.