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Through storytelling, children recognize that their actions and behaviors have an impact and become memories for future generations.
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Grades:
K
1
2
Through multiple visits to a retirement home, letter writing, or by inviting seniors to an event, children learn effective communication, sensitivity to people of different generations, and shared experiences while learning about the common good and stewardship.
Grades:
3
4
5
Young people prepare for their visit to the retirement home by writing an autobiography. They work together to come up with questions to ask their senior friends.
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson introduces the "Living History Project." We begin with sensitivity training, as a pre-service reflection and to help volunteers understand possible needs, disabilities, and attitudes of people with whom they will be working. The training leads children to understand...
Grades:
3
4
5
The children write and publish their Living History books, following their interview notes and book format traditions.
Grade Levels:
3
4
5
Children develop sharing and learning relationships with senior friends from a local senior center or retirement home as they volunteer to write the "living history" of that person. Partners from both generations discuss how they have been philanthropists in their lives.
Subjects
Language Arts
Philanthropy
Social Studies
Grades:
3
4
5
This lesson is a celebration to culminate this intergenerational project. The children make a final visit to the senior center or retirement home where all the participants gather for a snack and a farewell celebration. The children read aloud and give their published Living History Books to...
Grades:
3
4
5
Giving homemade blankets to help people who are homeless or young people in the hospital is a form of philanthropy (giving treasure). What is the best way to donate? Using a decision-making model, the young people compare blanket projects and determine whether they have the time,...
Grade Levels:
3
4
5
Young people make blankets as comfort items for a population in need. They explore options and make a decision about what project they want to do based on need, analysis, and opportunity cost.
Subjects
Language Arts
Philanthropy
Social Studies
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Grades:
3
4
5
Participants use langauge and art to illustrate the vocabulary of philanthropy and the importance of the tradition of philanthropy to the community.
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