Students will donate their time/talent/treasure by sharing their cards and plants with a person at a retirement home.
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Unit: Phil's Garden of Good
Unit: TeachOne: Coming Together for Environmental Action
Students listen and respond to a read-aloud book about making a shared space better. They walk around their neighborhood parks observing plants, use of space, and ways to make the shared space better. They problem-solve about things they can do and then interview and survey others to get ideas...
Unit: Philanthropic Literature
This lesson uses a colorful book to introduce a conversation about giving something you value to make a better community. ...
Unit: Sharing the Gift of Literacy
This lesson is part of a literacy unit that teaches about the importance of community and giving. Students read and respond to the book The Rainbow Fish and think critically about sharing how giving brought more happiness to the Rainbow Fish and harmony to the...
Unit: Best Day Ever!
Students look at how they typically spend a free day and see what that same free day would look like when it is infused with philanthropy. Students plan a free day, substituting their usual routine with activities that give back. They discuss the benefits and opportunity cost ...
Unit: Real Heroes
This lesson gives examples of the tradition of Native American tribal giving and sharing and helps students identify talents they possess that could be used to help others....
Unit: My Water, Your Water, Our Water
Learners explore individual and collective responsibility for maintaining the health of the Great Lakes Basin or local water resources.
Unit: Truth, Trash and Treasure
The learners will create a bridge between their personal reflections and a visual expression of their experience.
The focus will be on words and images that express the learner's emotional response to the service-learning experience and a reflection of their role as a...
Unit: Tote Challenge
#ToteChallenge: Young people investigate the problems caused by plastic shopping bags, then propose solutions they can take to address the problems. They brainstorm uses for plastic bags. This lesson gives guidelines to design a reusable shopping tote out of an old T-shirt using...
Unit: This I Can Do!
This lesson will look at a day in the life of a homeless person and offer students a different point of view. It will demonstrate the importance of social justice and encourage students to adopt values and actions that help other people. While written for a Catholic Elementary School...