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1
2
Through discussion and a game, children identify the value of education to individuals and the community.
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Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (K-2)
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (3-5)
Grades:
3
4
5
Students play a game that explores the difference between rights and privileges and challenges their expectations about basic rights. Students will explore the issue of education as a right that not everyone has access to....
Grades:
3
4
5
Respond to the text of Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter, a picture book about a school in Afghanistan. This book inspires a discussion around the importance of education and what people can do to promote schooling for all around the world....
Unit: Voting and the Common Good (10th Grade)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners examine the statistics of voter turnout in the Federal Elections and from these statistics the learners draw some comparative conclusions.
Unit: Farm to Table and Food Security
Grades:
6
7
8
This stage in the PBL process involves gathering information about food insecurity and students' individual topics. This may be from teacher workshops and from students conducting research. Students are moving toward determining the focus of their project and thinking about solutions to the...
Unit: Road Less Traveled
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Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson may stand on its own as an introduction to the concept of philanthropy or lead into the unit exploring philanthropy of different geographic traditions. Participants listen to a read-aloud picture book that illustrates the value of giving gifts...
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners imagine life changes one, four and five years from the present time. They determine skills and attitudes of self-discipline that will help them be successful in the future....
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Unit: Investing In Others (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students construct a simple shelter to gain a sense of empathy for the situation of people who are homeless. They define and learn facts about homelessness.
Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson clarifies that true rights are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Students discuss the importance of protecting these rights, and if and when it is ever appropriate to limit rights. We learn that one role of nonprofits is preserve and promote guaranteed rights....
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students read and learn about a group, IMPUHWE (means compassion in Kinyarwanda), that supports girls’ education in Rwanda. They compare and contrast attributes of school systems across the globe.