Grades:
6
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8
For students to choose a cause to which they have a personal connection and write letters to advocate for change.
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Unit: Food for Thought Middle School Unit by the Westminster Schools
Unit: Be the Change: Personal Health
Grades:
9
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11
12
Students learn about the importance of sleep and analyze their own rest patterns. They determine how they can improve their own sleep health.
Unit: Service Learning for a One-Semester Course
Grades:
9
10
11
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Students will focus on specific issues of concern to class members so they can decide on a particular problem they will address.
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
Unit: Common Good in Colonial America
Grades:
3
4
5
Learners will research how colonial organizations, which developed in the nonprofit/ independent sector, have transformed themselves over time to continue to provide for the common good.
Unit: Climate Change Challenge (12th Grade)
Grades:
9
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11
12
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: Environment: Sustaining Our World (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
The students take action by determining ways to reduce their own use of plastic bags and by advocating for ways to reduce the use of plastic bags in their own households, the community, state and nation. To take further action, the students may propose ways to influence...
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Unit: Affirmative Action
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
In this lesson, learners examine Affirmative Action programs in the workplace and begin to explore the concept of "reverse discrimination," using Internet sources and the attached study guides.
Unit: For Goodness Sake, Why Don't We Give More Power to the People?
Grades:
9
10
11
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The learner will define the third sector and explain why it is important. Students will research United States nonprofit institutions, specifically those which minority groups accessed and used as an alternative power structure.
Unit: Character Education: Caring (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students read about the actions and projects of people their age who stick their necks out for the sake of others.