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Students look for examples of personal best in a movie about perseverance and discuss the value of working toward personal best even when it is difficult.
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 7)
Unit: Philanthropy and You
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Conducting research about activists from different cultures helps youth recognize Human Rights and the relationship to philanthropic values.
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The purpose of this lesson is to examine the tradition of giving and sharing in Indigenous communities and to learn about philanthropy in other cultures.
Unit: We Are Partners in the Work of Creation (Tikkun Olam) (Private-Religious)
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This lesson will introduce learners to a number of texts from classical and modern sources on the topic of how the work of tikun olam is to be performed. From these texts, the learners will derive rules for Jewish living and apply those rules, along with input from family members, to...
Unit: We Are Guardians of the Earth (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
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The most important role models for learners demonstrate how one can live responsibly in our world while achieving success by contemporary measure. The great gift and challenge of Judaism is to bring holiness to the profane- to the worldly. The models offered in this lesson are successful in this...
Unit: The Important Thing About Reading
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3
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The purpose of this lesson is for students to share their feelings about a book while they create a book cover. The books will then be donated to a school or organization where students’ covers will be shared with the recipients of the book....
Unit: Our Air: The Quest for Quality
Grades:
6
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This lesson will serve as the final learning piece, and the accumulated knowledge will be used to assist the learners in utilizing a role play scenario to come to a consensus plan of action that moves “their community” toward compliance with Air Quality Standards (AQI).This unit is also intended...
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 8)
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Students work as a group to create a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) of the viability of taking courageous action in a specific difficult situation.
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
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Self-Discipline is a little hard to define because it varies by personal experiences. This activity uses discussion and analysis to define self-discipline through examples and non-examples.
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Unit: Humans and Nature Flourishing Together
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Through analyzing a Ted Talk by Robin Wall Kimmerer, participants develop their understanding of what it means to respond with gratitude to the gifts from the Earth. Participants expand their awareness of the interdependent relationship between humans and nature. Kimmerer motivates and...