Learners use words to communicate positively and build community. A service project involves writing positive messages on stones and placing them strategically to uplift and beautify.

Students organize and implement a school-based recycling plan based on a one-day lunchroom waste audit.

Adapt this one-period lesson plan and follow it with a simple and powerful service project for Earth Day. The reflection brings learning and service impact together. 

Photo credit: Lunchroom by Rob Ireton is licensed under CC by 4.0 

Students learn about the goals of Earth Day and identify areas in town that need clean-up or planting. They plan a day of service.

Teach this one-period lesson plan and follow it with a simple and powerful service project before or on Earth Day. The reflection brings learning and service impact together. 

Youth learn about the toxic ingredients in personal care products and take action to protect local waterways from the effects of the chemicals.

Students learn about the role of bees as pollinators and learn about reasons their population numbers have been declining in recent years.  They write a letter or create a handout to teach others how to help bees through planting native species.

Students have the opportunity to create a brief video as an application to award someone they admire $1,000 as a needed boost. This lesson guides discussion of why and how to take action for the good of someone in the community. A lesson in mini-grantmaking with a powerful impact on students and community. 

To reflect on what students learned from this philanthropy class and to gather their feedback on the class experience.

To have students find a problem that needs to be solved or a cause in which they have interest and develop a creative presentation to the class.

To bring members of the local and school community together to showcase what the students learned while taking the class. 

This lesson briefly explains the process a group goes through as they deliberate and decide upon which applicant organizations will receive grant awards.