Grades:
9
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11
12
Students examine their preconceptions about homelessness and build understanding of homelessness.
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Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
Unit: My Country, My Community
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners will describe requirements for naturalized citizens and explain how rights given to citizens also require civic responsibility. They will analyze the words of the National Anthem and update it with a new verse that includes today’s concept of freedom.
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
7
8
Students conduct and compile research about hunger. ...
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn about food scarcity through a particular country's story.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students experience empathy for people who are homeless by listening to a song and completing the “I Am’ poem assignment....
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
Grades:
11
12
To introduce students to examples of the major types of nonprofit organization: arts, education, environment, health, religion, and social services. Each site is representative of a nonprofit category and the visit is to give students an example of opportunities for giving....
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Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
6
7
8
To help students understand important events in U.S. History during the time period of the setting for the novel Of Mice and Men; these include westward expansion, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. ...
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Unit: Repairing the World (Private-Religious)
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson will introduce the concept of tikkun olam to the students and teach of its importance. It will show them that everyone has the ability to do tikkun olam, and that it can be accomplished in a variety of ways.
Unit: Bare Necessities - Helping Others (Kindergarten)
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson will help students identify a person’s basic needs, realize that many people in the world are lacking the resources to meet these needs, and why this may occur. Students will be guided and encouraged to think of ways they can help people in need...
Unit: The Power of Children
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Grades:
6
7
8
Students evaluate their learning about philanthropy and the process of selecting a service-learning project. They write a guided reflection on their experience. ...
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