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The learners will choose and develop a neighborhood clean-up project.
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Unit: One Person's Trash
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The purpose of this lesson is to help learners understand what happens to trash that is generated.
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The purpose of this lesson is to introduce learners to the different types of trash, the amounts that are being discarded and what could be done to alleviate trash in their own communities. ...
Unit: Pitch In — A Philanthropic Puppet Project
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3
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In this culminating lesson, the students perform their puppet plays in order to teach others about environmental issues. As a final piece, students 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...
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3
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The purpose of this lesson is to create story scripts from the research and facts collected in Lesson One: Digging Up the Facts. The scripts will be comprised of the following parts: setting, one character per student, problem, solution,...
Unit: You Can Bank on Me!
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Each student will make a personal bank for home and decide how they will spend the money they collect—for saving, spending or donating. Bring the money the class collected to the charity of their choice (see Attachment One: Decision-Making Model from Lesson...
Unit: Global Garbage
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The purpose of this lesson is to introduce learners to concepts related to trash removal, as well as to evaluate statistics regarding the production and removal of trash products.
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Grades:
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To create empathy and help learners recognize some of the adverse effects of the careless actions of people.
Unit: Earth Keepers
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The purpose of this lesson is to allow learners the opportunity to participate in caring for our Earth by engaging in activities that focus on environmental stewardship.
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The purpose of this lesson is to introduce learners to our global community. Learners will understand that they share the Earth with many other people and they have a responsibility to be good stewards of the Earth by helping care for it.