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Students play a game that explores the difference between rights and privileges and challenges their expectations about basic rights. Students will explore the issue of education as a right that not everyone has access to....
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Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (3-5)
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Students explore the issue of education as a right that not everyone has access to. Students plan and complete a service project to help expand access to education around the world.
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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: Grow Involved 9-12
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Participants explore Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts about serving and taking action. They give examples of service and social action by one person that can change the world.
Unit: Be the Change: Life Skills
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Students engage in a variety of activities that teach the value of budgeting and fundraising. They will investigate the concept of enlightened self-interest and how that correlates to good time and money management and civic engagement....
Unit: We ARE the Government
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6
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In this lesson, learners identify different levels of participation in a democracy. Each student writes a statement describing what type of citizen he or she would like to be. In groups of 4-6 students, the learners create an audio or visual presentation advocating for civic responsibility. They...
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We look at two examples of art connecting diverse people. The first example is a man who connects people around the world by dancing badly and capturing cultural expressions of dance and community. The second example is an artist who leaves free paintings around Boston (and then around the world...
Unit: School Environment and Diversity, Let's Deal With It
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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: Civic Virtue in Modern American Democracy
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The learners analyze examples from history of civic virtue and then select the characteristics they believe are most important for enduring citizen engagement....
Unit: Hands On Philanthropy: A High School Course at Kentucky Country Day School
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To learn about the different philosophies of three renowned philanthropists.
Image source: John D. Rockefeller in 1885. From Wikimedia Commons. Original source: Rockefeller Archive Center.
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