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Engage students in the process of civic involvement through completing and analyzing a school climate survey.
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Unit: School Environment and Diversity, Let's Deal With It
Grades:
6
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Learners will build community through identifying and implementing an action plan addressing one issue as identified in the School Climate Survey.
Unit: Climate Change Challenge (12th Grade)
Grades:
9
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Students learn about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Students discuss the issue and motivations for giving for the common good. Through discussion and brainstorming, students establish things they can do personally and as a team to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Unit: We are the Positive School Culture
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6
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Based on the results of the survey, the students determine the top five character traits that need improvement in the school. They design a service plan and make mascots using the engineering design method. The mascots act as advocates for improvement in school climate. This lesson focuses...
Grades:
6
7
8
A positive school climate is made up of people making choices about how to act and treat one another. It is everyone's responsibility to be a good school citizen. Students identify what traits they value most and survey the school population to identify what is going well and what students feel...
Grades:
6
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8
In this lesson, the students carry out their service plan to promote a positive school climate, then reflect on its impact and demonstrate their service-learning process to an audience.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
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8
Students play a simulation game that illustrates their power to take action for the good of others.
Unit: Doodle Stones
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In this one-period lesson, students examine the effects of using words as social action today and in history. They use words to communicate positively and build community within the school. A service project involves writing positive messages on stones and placing them strategically...
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (3-5)
Grades:
3
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Respond to the text of Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter, a picture book about a school in Afghanistan. This book inspires a discussion around the importance of education and what people can do to promote schooling for all around the world....
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (9-12)
Grades:
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Students explore the effects on themselves, the community and the world if the government failed to provide US children with an education.