Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students play a game that involves taking risks and watching out for others. They discuss their feelings in both roles and discuss the role of trust and responsibility in community.
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Unit: Teamwork: Unit One of Establishing a Student-Run Foundation
Unit: Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
Grades:
6
7
8
The purpose of the lesson is to create an awareness of local agencies that provide services for needy people, teens, and families in the community. Students will also learn the motivations for giving and see how help is provided to the community through the four sectors of the economy. Students...
Unit: Community Impact
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Grades:
6
7
8
In this three-day lesson, students analyze self-esteem in themselves and in fictional and nonfictional characters. They discuss the value of having a positive and realistic image of oneself and set goals for developing self-esteem in self and others by identifying strengths and personal talents/...
Unit: Worthless to Priceless: It's all Relative
Grades:
6
7
8
Students read and discuss the folktale "The Drum," a folktale from India. Students determine the central message of selfless giving (giving without expectation of reward) and write and produce a play that communicates that message clearly. They perform it for an appropriate audience.
Unit: Reporting on an Ideal World
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners envision an ideal world characterized by principles of justice, kindness, peace, and belonging. They write articles for a fictitious newspaper called USA Tomorrow that reports on the ideal world. They will reflect in writing about one step they can take to make an...
Unit: Living History-An Intergenerational Philanthropy Project
Grades:
3
4
5
The children write and publish their Living History books, following their interview notes and book format traditions.
Unit: Where's The Sand?
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Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson introduces the learners to the human and physical characteristics of desert regions around the world, including vegetation and animals that inhabit those deserts.
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Unit: We Are Partners in the Work of Creation (Tikkun Olam) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will introduce learners to a number of texts from classical and modern sources on the topic of how the work of tikun olam is to be performed. From these texts, the learners will derive rules for Jewish living and apply those rules, along with input from family members, to...
Unit: Teaching Tolerance (Private-Religious)
Grades:
3
4
5
Using a traditional Jewish text as its basis, this lesson emphasizes the importance of sharing in a relationship.
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Unit: Pitch In Philanthropic Puppet Project
Grades:
3
4
5
Young people perform their puppet plays in order to teach others about environmental issues. They reflect on this project by writing an answer to some essential questions of the unit: What does it mean to be a philanthropist? What does it mean to be an environmentalist?