This lesson will help students understand the importance of sharing their talents with others. While written for a Catholic Elementary School, this lesson may be easily adapted for public school use .

Learners will describe the work of nonprofits and research their role in the local community. They will research which local nonprofits welcome the work of volunteers and provide a data base for other students who are looking for community service opportunities.

Learners will use economic thinking to determine how to allocate their scarce resources for community service.

The students respond to A Chair for my Mother by identifying ways families save and spend money.  They will then identify how savings can accumulate over a period of time....

Students use writing skills and critical thinking to write a poem about a philanthropist....

Students respond to a fiction story and identify acts of service and kindness (philanthropy). They learn about plants and grow and donate plants to others....

Students will research the "Society of Friends"/ Quakers and describe how this group promoted the common good. The Quakers pushed for religious freedom and freedom of choice, which are Core Democratic Values. As a group, they formed organizations to promote social...

Through literature, students see a garden as a place where an individual can go for inner peace and solitude. They show environmental responsibility by sharing a garden within a community.

The students will engage in activities to examine how they make use of their time, make an action plan, and create a to-do list to improve upon their own time management....

Students will use persuasive speech techniques to encourage philanthropy in others.