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Learners will sponsor Mix It Up Day, a national project to promote diversity within a school environment. Learners will experience roles as private citizens attempting to change behavior.
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Unit: Challenging Social Boundaries
Unit: Tote Challenge
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Young people investigate the problems caused by plastic shopping bags, then propose solutions to address the problems. This lesson prompts teams to design a reusable shopping tote out of an old T-shirt using engineering, problem-solving, creativity, and communication. They take action...
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Unit: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Grades:
5
To have students partner with a nonprofit organization to design and complete a service-learning project for that organization.
In the third trimester of the Urban EdVenture course, students begin work on the final project in collaboration with their homeroom teachers. Each...
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (9-12)
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Students research the practices of healthy exercise. They identify a topic related to good nutrition and personal health and write 3-5 facts to share with the class. They identify nonprofits that work to address related health needs and contact them by phone to ask questions.
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Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 6)
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We define what fairness means and compare and contrast definitions. Participants build empathy as they discuss others' experiences with fairness.
Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
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The learners build on their understanding, seeking actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
Unit: Art for the Common Good—Junkanoo!
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The groups wear their headdresses and perform a Junkanoo-like parade first internally and then to entertain a group that needs cheering or to teach about cooperation and respect for cultural expressions.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
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Learners compare two communities to which they belong using a Venn diagram and descriptive words related to trustworthiness.
Unit: Resolving Conflict with Respect
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In civil society, different people come together to form community. While differences may cause conflict, for the sake of the common good, we practice empathy and respect for others. Students respond to scenarios of differences in opinion. They learn to communicate respectfully with someone of a...
Unit: Cultural Competence
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Youth reflect on the lessons they have learned through building cultural competence in this unit. They identify an adult they trust to have critical, or difficult, conversations.