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Grades:
3
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5
Students will understand the importance of having respect for others. Students will practice tolerance and acceptance toward all people, including others with disabilities and various cultural backgrounds. ...
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Unit: What Respect Means to Me
Unit: We are the Positive School Culture
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, the students carry out their service plan to promote a positive school climate, then reflect on its impact and demonstrate their service-learning process to an audience.
Unit: Community Health and Safety
Grades:
3
4
5
The group collaborates to plan, carry out, and reflect on an authentic service project that meets the health and safety needs of the community. This is based on the needs assessment conducted through surveying community members in previous lessons....
Grades:
3
4
5
Using a brainstormed list of health and safety issue areas, participants design and implement a survey. They poll a group of friends and family to determine what health and safety issues are of greatest concern in their community. ...
Unit: Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
Grades:
6
7
8
Students read about the Orphan Train and compare and contrast how that philanthropic effort has evolved today....
Unit: Music of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1968
Grades:
6
7
8
"Freedom songs" were an important motivating force during the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968. Through music we explore the important figures in the Civil Rights Movement and their contribution to the common good....
Unit: The Power of Children
Unit:
Grades:
6
7
8
Students are introduced to philanthropy and service-learning. They learn about different needs in the community and community organizations that address these needs. Students are introduced to the full scope of the Project Based Learning (PBL) project. They establish the "Knows...
Unit: Devotions for Young Children
Grades:
6
7
8
Students work collaboratively to bring their individual devotions into a collective devotional booklet that is printed and published online. They also create an audio version. Students serve on different teams determined by collaborative planning to make the final version.
Unit: Litter and Environmental Stewardship (8th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners identify the issues related to trash and litter and determine each person's role and responsibility for environmental stewardship.
Unit: Sacred Giving (Tzedakah) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
Performance of the mitzvah of tzedakah is, ideally, a holistic part of life, not an activity to be performed when all others have been completed! This lesson offers a classic model of how that ideal was realized by one of our Sages, Rabbi Tanchum, and how our families might...