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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.
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Unit: Writers as Activists
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
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8
Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore the causes and impacts of hunger, and how hunger differs depending on location....
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore how charity and philanthropy address hunger and poverty....
Unit: My Country, My Community
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Grades:
9
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While reviewing the expectations for immigrants to become citizens, young people learn about their own rights and civic responsibility. They learn that freedom isn't free. It was purchased by service and requires continued responsibility of citizens to uphold the rights and expectations of the...
Unit: Let's Make Lemonade
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K
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Now that the need they want to address is identified, the children meet people in the community who address the need and others who may want to help them with their fundraiser. ...
Unit: Advise and Consent
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Grades:
6
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Participants will survey members of the community (school or local area) to determine a need, write proposals to satisfy the need, consider doing an optional one-day fundraiser to help fill that need, serve on a board of directors or a youth advisory...
Unit: Cultural Competence
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Youth reflect on the lessons they have learned through building cultural competence in this unit. They identify an adult they trust to have critical, or difficult, conversations. ...
Unit: Making a Difference in Our Community
Grades:
3
4
5
Two picture books -- The Three Questions by John J. Muth and Have you Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud -- help students reflect on "doing good" for others. Students walk around the school and community to identify some community and school needs. ...
Unit: Our Unique Legacy of Giving
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, students create a gift of story modeled after the documentary The Gift of All. The students will research and/or interview a local philanthropist. Each student will write a biography telling the story of the philanthropist. They share the completed biography with an...