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Students experience working and unemployment through a very simplified role play....
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Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Unit: Be the Change: Homelessness
Grades:
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Students build on their understanding about homelessness, seeking to discover the actual facts and statistics about homelessness locally and nationally.
Unit: The Carter Center and Volunteerism
Grades:
9
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Students are introduced to the concept of responsible citizenship and how philanthropy helps achieve responsible citizenship.
Grades:
9
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This lesson presents a model of a modern day philanthropist and responsible citizen, Jimmy Carter.
Unit: Philanthropy, Volunteering and Service: The Historical Connections
Grades:
9
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Learners will come to an understanding of philanthropy by studying the successes and failures of the War on Poverty as a component of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. They will participate in a service activity based on reflections of current community needs and foundations and agencies...
Grades:
9
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Learners will explore the human need for food and how it relates to hunger in the community and the world. Learners will propose alternative solutions through historical cases and current programs within their community. Learners will develop an awareness of and sensitivity to hunger issues in...
Unit: Roosevelt's Tree Army
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Grades:
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Students will learn basic terms and vocabulary related to the Great Depression. After listening to A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck, students will understand how small acts of philanthropy were possible, even during these difficult times. Students will identify acts of philanthropy and...
Unit: Social Reformer—Jane Addams
Grades:
9
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Jane Addams is used as a model to demonstrate a philanthropist in action, improving many situations, not only in the city of Chicago, but also at state, national and international levels.
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
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Students reflect in writing about how they can use their personal resources and interests to make a difference in somone's life.
Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger—Around the Block, Around the World
Grades:
9
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Learners will describe how hunger and malnutrition are related, but not the same problems. They will recognize hunger as a universal theme in literature and analyze the role of the four sectors of society in solving problems of hunger in the community.
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