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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
Grades:
6
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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....
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6
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Students explore how charity and philanthropy address hunger and poverty....
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: Take a Stand on Bullying
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6
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In the first lesson of this three-lesson unit, the students define bullying and identify the effects of bullying behavior on the individuals involved and the larger community. The students create a survey or use another method to collect and report on the perceived status of bullying behavior at...
Unit: Superheroes as Philanthropists
Grades:
9
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Students will identify themes in Spider-Man, the reasons that people choose to give to their communities, and why Spider-Man chooses to do so.
Unit: Earth Connections
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Grades:
3
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The purpose of this lesson is to begin an investigation of the state of the environment and observe the effects of pollution on it. The students begin to strategize about their responsibility to be environmentalists.
Unit: Be the Change: Life Skills
Grades:
9
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The students will build upon what they learned about time management and develop a set of study skills that will help them to learn, truly understand, and recall material. They will learn a strategy for test taking that will serve them well on exams that require responding to questions...
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...