Grades:
6
7
8
Learners evaluate the effectiveness of their solution and service-learning project, including individual and group processes and learnings. They reflect individually and in groups, and celebrate their success.
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Unit: Farm to Table and Food Security
Unit: Earth Connections
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Grades:
3
4
5
The students will investigate what is already being done in their school to reduce pollution. They will create and carry out a service learning plan to enhance this effort.
Unit: Defining Philanthropy
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
In this lesson, students work in groups to organize the information they have about philanthropy in preparation for the next session of writing an essay about philanthropy.
Unit: From Struggle to Success
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Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn from examples of people who have experienced a struggle and used surrounding resources to make something better for themselves and the people around them. Examples of "servant leadership" are taken from the Our State of Generosity...
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students analyze survey results, choose a community health need, and design a service project to address it.
Unit: Welcome Home
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Grades:
6
7
8
The students gain a background understanding of Habitat for Humanity as both a global and local organization. As advocates, they raise awareness of the issue of poverty and affordable housing in their community.
Unit: Be the Change: Personal Health
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students examine their own eating habits, compare them to national health standards, and develop plans for improving them. Then they share their learning to promote a healthier community. Each student selects a single nutritional aspect to study and then creates an awareness poster about that ...
Unit: Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger
Grades:
K
1
2
Students collect donations, continue to motivate and inspire the other classes, and share information about the organization and how the money collected will be used. The students sort and count the money and chart the collections by classroom and by day or week. The teacher creates graphs from...
Unit: Helping Refugees
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Grades:
9
10
11
12
Use this opening activity to help students understand, on a personal level, what it means to be a refugee. They discuss the benefits of home and family and explore the feelings experienced by refugees who have lost everything.
Unit: Phil's Community Connections
Grades:
3
4
5
In this lesson, students interview elderly people in their community asking specific questions regarding their connections to philanthropy. The students recognize that the community is connected in many ways through generations and over time with a common purpose of making the community more...