Grades:
3
4
5
Students will identify an area that would benefit from a mini-park.
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Unit: Building a Mini-Park and Bird Sanctuary
Unit: Laws, What Are They Good For?
Grades:
3
4
5
Learners will demonstrate knowledge of the elements of community building, individual and civic responsibility. They will participate in the decision making process of rule, law and procedure making.
Unit: Respecting Diversity: The Road To Tolerance
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson will explore historical and existing religious prejudices using a variety of texts and media research instruments. Understanding of religious persecution will be learned through the experiences of Jewish people, gypsies, Catholics and the mentally and physically challenged, leading...
Unit: Living History-An Intergenerational Philanthropy Project
Grades:
3
4
5
In this lesson the students prepare for their visit to the retirement home. First the students create and use a personal timeline and questionnaire to write their autobiographies to be used as the author page in the Living History Book. The class will work together to come up with questions to...
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: Cinderella Project
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Grades:
K
1
2
The lesson emphasis is on the shoe motif in Cinderella as well as the philanthropic ideals of giving and helping others. A service learning project will be developed where students create a "shoe drive" to donate to children in need.
Unit: Learning About Philanthropy-Diocesan Standard
Grades:
3
4
5
Students will recognize time, talent, and treasure as components of stewardship and philanthropy. While written for a Catholic Elementary School, the lesson may be easily adapted for public school use.
Unit: Be the Change: Democracy
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students engage in activities that illustrate the importance of every person contributing his or her voice in a democratic community/society....
Unit: Community Health and Safety
Grades:
3
4
5
Students create lists of health and safety issues. Through cooperative methods, the learners construct an original health and safety survey of issues affecting their community.
Unit: Cool Kids Compost
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Grades:
3
4
5
The lesson introduces the concept of recycling food waste by composting. Students investigate food waste in their school and the nation, and gain awareness of recycling food waste as a better way to care for the earth. The class communicates in writing their plans for and results of a food-waste...