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Students examine their personal healthy habits and their school (and neighborhood) environments to collect information about nutrition and fitness in the community. Students consider what changes they can make to the...
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Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Unit: What Is a Youth Advisory Committee?
Grades:
3
4
5
The group reviews the list of issues and ways to take action, including those gathered with their families. They narrow the list through consensus. They invite a local Community Foundation Youth Advisory Committee member to talk about their work and grant process....
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (9-12)
Grades:
9
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Students describe elements of personal health and fitness and relate this to the health of the community, recognizing that the elements of a healthy community are good for all members. The students identify the availability of healthy foods and practices in the school, neighborhood, and home...
Grades:
9
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Students collaboratively choose a community health need to address, plan the logistics for their service project, and document their planning process.
Grades:
9
10
11
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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: Advise and Consent
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Grades:
6
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Participants identify and compare the different roles of the four sectors of the economy (government, business, nonprofit, and family). They identify which sector does what and observe how they approach differently the sometimes overlapping responsibilities....
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
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8
Lesson two compares two definitions of integrity.
Unit: Art for the Common Good—Junkanoo!
Grades:
6
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8
In this lesson, groups work together to make their headdresses based on a common design. Each person makes their own headdress that fits the group theme but has their own style or cultural uniqueness. The groups compete against each other, so the group...
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students define the meaning of impartial and connect it to fairness through the use of a Frayer model graphic organizer.