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Thank You!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate appreciation for volunteer workers. In this philanthropy lesson, students create a card, picture, or poem for a school volunteer. Students use a variety of art supplies to create the appreciation gift.
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We Care For Our Commons

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate how volunteering makes a difference in a community. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the lyrics of "This Land Is Your Land" and illustrate ways to volunteer in their community.
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Selfless Sam- The Drive

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss how to address poverty in society. For this philanthropy lesson, students read the book Sam and the Lucky Money and discuss how they would handle hunger. Students role play situations and demonstrate philanthropic acts.
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Selfless-Selfish

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate selfless acts. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students read The Legend of the Blue Bonnet and discuss the selfless acts in the text. Students illustrate two acts of selflessness that they have performed.
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Do Something Beautiful

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize philanthropy in literature. For this philanthropy lesson, students read the book Something Beautiful by Sharon Wyeth and discuss how the character performed acts of philanthropy. Students write a reflection in a journal.
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Sharing Beauty Through Song

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform a song for their school community. In this music lesson, students sing the philanthropic song See Me Beautiful by Red Grammar and reflect upon the lyrics. Students perform the song for their school community.
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Community Helpers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate community helpers. In this communities lesson plan, students compare and contrast for-profit and non-profit jobs and choose one job to illustrate on paper.
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Nature Tribute

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore parts of nature. In this environmental lesson, students discuss how their actions can affect the environment and design a plan to clean up a specified area. Students practice good hygiene during the cleanup project.
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Cleaning Up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to be a philanthropist. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the story The Wartville Wizard and discuss ways to become a philanthropist. Students participate in a good deed by volunteering to clean up trash.
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Making a Choice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read and discuss the text Miss Rumphius. In this philanthropy activity, students discuss how the characters in the book made the world beautiful and create a class book of good deeds.
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Is There a Stone in My Soup?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students plan a service project. In this service learning instructional activity, students demonstrate their understanding of philanthropy as they plan a stone soup party.
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Song Mapping

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore locations on the United States map. In this map skills instructional activity, students recite the song This Land Is Your Land and locate various places listed in the song on the map.
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What's Public? What's Private?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast public and private land. In this philanthropy lesson, students identify public areas in the school and create posters about taking care of various public places.
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Community Heritage

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss cultural issues in their community. In this cultural lesson, students meet a local Hispanic activist and discuss current issues in the community.
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Singing as a Way of Giving

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform songs from previous philanthropy lessons. In this music lesson, students create a video of songs and give it to a local shelter. Students are encouraged to be creative and sing songs such as "What Can I Do for You" and...
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Funding the Arts: Art from the Heart

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore means by which community arts might be supported. In this "community" social studies lesson, students research various local non-profit organizations. Students role-play as members of the board of a philanthropic...
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Where People Work

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate where people work. In this social studies instructional activity, students use a Landscape Picture to locate places of work. Students discuss how each job is similar and different.
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Making Greeting Cards

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students produce greeting cards. In this art lesson, students discuss ways to make people smile and use art supplies to construct greeting cards.
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People in My Community

For Students K - 3rd
In this community helpers worksheet, students use the 16 words in the word bank to locate and identify them in the word search puzzle.
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Write About These People

For Students K - 3rd
In this writing practice worksheet, learners write 12 original sentences about the 12 people pictured on this worksheet.
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Connect the Dots and Write: People

For Students K - 3rd
In this people connect the dots and write worksheet, students trace 15 people words 2 times each. Students match the 15 words to the pictures of the appropriate words.
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Topic Books: People Who Help Us

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this ESL community helpers worksheet, students assemble the booklet and read about 7 community helpers. Students then respond to 9 true or false questions and 4 matching questions regarding the information they read.
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Community Helpers

For Students K - 1st
In this community helper worksheet, students analyze 4 pictures. Students cross out the picture that does not depict a community helper.
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Community Helpers

For Teachers K - 1st
In this community helpers worksheet, students connect 14 pictures of community helpers which include fire fighters, dental hygienists, police officers, carpenters, doctors, teachers, and mail carriers. They tell how these people help the...