Grades:
6
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8
Learners will build community through identifying and implementing an action plan addressing one issue as identified in the School Climate Survey.
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Unit: School Environment and Diversity, Let's Deal With It
Unit: Nonprofits are Necessary (6-8)
Grades:
6
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8
The purpose of this lesson is to have students name and recognize nonprofit organizations within the local community.
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Unit: This I Can Do!
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Grades:
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Students will recognize why volunteers are so important to a community and learn some of the things that volunteers do for their community. While written for a Catholic Elementary School, this lesson may be easily adapted for public school use.
Unit: Exploring Nonprofit Career Opportunities
Grades:
3
4
5
The purpose of this lesson is to have learners name and recognize nonprofit organizations within the local community utilizing the Idealist.org web site. Learners will categorize nonprofits and describe how they help or enhance the community.
...Unit: Hunger and Your Community (7th Grade)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the learners will explore food scarcity and abundance as they relate to issues of poverty, wealth and health. They will identity a need in their community and explore ways that they might help reduce poverty, hunger, and ill-health there.
Unit: Tulipmania – Growing Flowers to Share
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners will reinforce their knowledge about the abiotic factors necessary for plant growth by planting and caring for bulbs so the needs are met and the plant flourishes. The resulting potted flower will be a gift that the learner will share along with the knowledge they have acquired...
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the learners will become familiar with vocabulary and concepts associated with self-discipline. They will examine the correlation between self-discipline and maturity....
Unit: Baking Bread for Childhood Hunger
Grades:
K
1
2
In this lesson, students define philanthropy and discover how philanthropy can be creative and encompass many different talents and treasures. In this lesson, students will learn about the problem of childhood hunger and the needs in their own community (specifically the financial needs of a...
Unit: Your Place in the Community (10th Grade)
Grades:
9
10
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12
Learners identify their personal values/beliefs and compare them to the values/beliefs of their peers. They discuss how their values influence their decisions about personal action for the common good.
Focus Question: How does an individual use personal interests...
Unit: Raising Resources
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Grades:
3
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Students will recognize that nonprofit organizations compete with other nonprofit organizations for money, funding, and resources.