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Unit: Majority Rule; Minority Rights
Unit: Philanthropy: Individuals and Their Surroundings
Students will explain that, in the United States, it is the people who hold the power, not the government.
Unit: Upon the Clouds of Equality (1st Grade)
The students experience a simulation demonstrating unequal treatment and discuss justice and fairness. Students will reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of equality and his actions as a philanthropist.
Unit: New Philanthropy--A Hands-On Way of Giving (The)
Learners will analyze the new philanthropists, who they are, what they give, who they give to, their personal qualities, and how they hold people and organizations accountable for their philanthropic efforts.
Unit: Philanthropy in History
Students will recognize the value of volunteerism in accomplishing worthy goals.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Students play a simulation game that illustrates their power to take action for the good of others.
Unit: Forced to Flee and Find a New Home
Students learn what it is like to be a refugee through pictures, video, and stories. They build empathy and do an activity that simulates choices refugees must make.
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Unit: Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the Globe (K-2)
This lesson includes a simulation that helps children understand the number of people in the world who are food insecure. The simulation generates empathy for the injustice of the unequal distribution of food. They learn that food is unequally distributed and discuss how they feel about taking...
Unit: Rivers for the Common Good
Learners will develop a graphic way of visualizing the concept of a million by utilizing what had happened to the Nashua River due to the dumping of raw sewage in 1962. In the first class period, the learners will be introduced to the concept of a million by creating containers that will hold a...
Unit: Refugees: Finding a Place
During this lesson students use what they have learned about needs and wants to determine what items they would take with them if they were forced to flee their homes. Students make decisions as to what things they must leave behind. They learn that many times refugees must leave their homes...