Grades:
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To bring members of the local and school community together to showcase what the students learned while taking the class.
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Unit: Hands On Philanthropy: A High School Course at Kentucky Country Day School
Unit: Food for Thought: Hunger around the World
Grades:
9
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11
12
Depictions of hunger in excerpts from Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist provide concrete images of hunger as learners determine its causes and decide whether to support a change in U.S. public policy related to the issue.
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Unit: Cultural Competence
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Looking around the room, we may see many skin colors and tones. These differences occur all over the world. In this lesson we use the terminology of race and ethnicity and look at data to identify the makeup of our community or state. Young people may take action to promote representation of the...
Unit: Earth Keepers
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Grades:
K
1
2
The purpose of this lesson is to guide learners to participate in caring for our Earth by engaging in activities of environmental stewardship.
Unit: It's Goin' Down; The Rain Forest
Grades:
6
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8
Working with current statistics, youth articulate the repercussions of rainforest destruction and how this destruction may personally affect them if deforestation continues at its present pace.
Grades:
6
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Learners identify ways for individuals, nonprofits, and governments to take action against excessive destruction of the rainforests of the world.
Unit: Opening Our Hearts and Hands to Others (Tzedakah)
Grades:
3
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In this lesson, the students are empowered to explore charities related to their own interests and make an impact of their own. Students research different charitable organizations and choose one to represent in a creative way at a tzedakah fair. The students invite family and community...
Unit: Cinderella Stories
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Grades:
K
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This lesson introduces the characteristics of fairy tales as a genre. The children explore positive and negative character traits and universal themes in the story of Cinderella. The service plan is introduced in this lesson and carried out over the next weeks.
Unit: Project on Poverty and Homelessness at Sea Crest School
Grades:
6
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8
Students learn facts about hunger and food insecurity and understand the three stages of hunger.
Unit: What Is Philanthropy?
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Grades:
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In this lesson, youth prepare a persuasive speech in which they demonstrate that one person (or small group) can make a difference in making the world a better place or taking action for the common good.