In this unit students will learn about the power of writing for creating positive social change by studying writers who use their writing as a means of activism and by using those same tools to become activist writers themselves.
Students learn about different types of energy sources that produce electricity.
Learners identify and explore their own values as well as the values of their family, classroom, school, neighborhood and the community. Learners realize that they are concurrently members of multiple communities that may have competing or conflicting value systems.
This is the first unit of the Resource Guide for Establishing a Student-Run Foundation. Developing teamwork skills is important in leadership and productivity.
This unit includes elementary and secondary versions of a lesson that teaches respectful language for positive group formation, such as at the beginning of the school year.
This introductory step-by-step guide helps educators teach students about giving and responding to needs in the community. Just like generosity is part of all aspects of your life, teaching generosity in community can be part of every aspect of teaching. We’ll show you how. This course is for the educator working in-school, after-school, with youth groups, or community foundation youth advisory committees.
To introduce students to a definition of social entrepreneurship and examples of social entrepreneurs in America.
This lesson explores the components of healthy living: eating healthy foods and exercise. Children identify their favorite healthy foods and forms of exercise that help them live a healthy life. Focus question: What foods and activity choices are important for healthy living?
Students explore the meaning of community and describe traits of a healthy classroom community. They develop a class definition of a healthy community and learn how to promote healthy habits in the school community.
