Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students conduct and evaluate their service project, then celebrate their success. After the service project, invite guests, volunteers, community members, and other students to celebrate with the class.
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (9-12)
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (K-2)
Grades:
K
1
2
Students define community and recognize that a class or after-school group is a community because the members share interests and goals and work together. Focus Questions: What is a community and what is my role? What is health and why is it important?
Unit: Roots of Philanthropy (Teen)
Grades:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Youth Activity: Young people watch a video of people telling what they think "philanthropy" means. Then they conduct their own interviews to gather information about the understanding of the concept of philanthropy.
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Unit: Community Health and Safety
Grades:
3
4
5
Participants gain exposure to how citizens organize in response to a need. They observe the benefits of group cooperation. They review data they have collected from surveys and work in collaborative groups to identify focus areas for the service-learning project.
Grades:
3
4
5
Using a brainstormed list of health and safety issue areas, participants design and implement a survey. They poll a group of friends and family to determine what health and safety issues are of greatest concern in their community.
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
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Grades:
3
4
5
In this activity, the learners discuss and illustrate what it means to show respect for their personal identity, values, and emotions.
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Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger around the World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners describe good nutritional practices and make a plan to eat healthy.
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
Purpose: To share with students how a successful local nonprofit was formed and how laws have been changed as a result of its advocacy work. In the case of Road Safe America, the nonprofit's advocacy work affected laws dealing with the trucking industry.
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn facts about hunger and food insecurity and understand the three stages of hunger.
Unit: Save a Drop For Me
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Grades:
6
7
8
Clean water is a scarce natural resource because pollution and careless action can make it unusable for consumers. Learners research reliable facts about their local water and propose philanthropic acts to contribute to the common good.