PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Community Garden
Orville Edwards describes how community gardens help improve the quality of life in the city in this video segment from WILD TV.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kids Care
In this video segment [0:47] from Zoom, students in the Kids Care Club prepare "Bags of Love" for mothers and children.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Science Explorations: Kids' Environment Report Card
Cast your vote on the important environmental issues. Associated with each issue, there are at least three links to sites which can further your understanding of the issue. To encourage others to respect the environment, you can also...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Community Progress? [Pdf]
"Community Progress?" is a one page, nonfiction passage about three community projects in Chicago; each group saw a problem, decided on a solution, and implemented it. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Fourth of July Celebration Plan
Get the creative juices flowing while students work on activities for a community Fourth of July celebration.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Health Community Project
Use these resources and create a project identifying an issue with the health of people in the community and working out actions that could be taken to reduce the problem.
Other
Union of Concerned Scientists: The Great Green Web Game
An interactive game tests knowledge of how choices affect the environment. Become more environmentally aware of how shopping behavior impacts the environment.
Other
Point of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center: Home Page
Are you interested in exploring volunteer work? The Point of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center provides resources to investigate volunteer work.
Other
Cottage Elementary Wide Pbs Lesson Plans Expectation: I Am Respectful
This resource provides a plan to directly teach young scholars how to respect others' personal space. A formula is directly taught and must be repeated throughout all school settings.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Community Projects and School Projects
Teachers have the opportunity to guide students of ways to develop or expand community and school projects through a series of informative and explorative lessons.
Other
Learning Activities: Peace Education
This series of activities for early elementary pupils focuses on peace education. Emphasis is on our behavior and how it impacts peace.