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Taking Action! Educating as a Form of Service

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students read the story Happy Hearts in Manabí by Peace Corps Volunteer Kristen Mallory to consider how educating others can be a form of service. In this health education and service lesson, students read the book and...
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Kids Helping Kids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience reading in a multi-age learning community. For this partner reading lesson, students plan and implement a "Reading Buddy" program. Students practice oral reading, select sight vocabulary to "teach" the younger...
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Throw A Tennis Ball Into The Service Court

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners are engaged in the introductory skills of playing tennis and develop the ability to overhead serve. They practice serving a ball over the net without a return being made. This is done to work on technique and speed of serving...
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What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students implement a volunteer plan. In this philanthropy lesson, students discuss the needs of their community and list possible ways to improve their community. Students develop a plan to volunteer their time in their community.
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We Are All Pieces of the Puzzle

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are shown a small puzzle. They are explained that without all the pieces, a puzzle is not complete. Students are explained that the same principle applies to the world of work. They are also explained that each person who...
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Community Helpers

For Teachers K
Students discuss important jobs in the community such as; mail carriers and hospital workers. They participate in creative projects that allow them to become more familiar with what these specific workers do. This lesson can be extended...
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The Summer Fun Summer Learning Drama and Plays Unit

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
The play's the thing that puts the play in a summer learning drama program designed to combat summer slide and encourage family literacy. Participants learn about drama as an art form, engage in dramatic presentations, write scripts, and...
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Getting the Word Out

For Teachers 4th - 12th
An appropriate way to celebrate and conclude the construction of a rain garden is to share it with the community. Small groups collaborate to design an outreach product such as a PowerPoint presentation, brochure, or poster, to draw...
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The Many Roles I Play in My Community

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Small groups brainstorm their roles in the community. Then, individually, complete a community roles web worksheet. Peers share their completed product and extend the conversation to include the feelings and character traits that go...
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Using Connecting Themes in First Grade Social Studies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Foster contributing members of society with a social studies unit focused on five aspects of community. First graders discuss themes of culture, groups, location, scarcity, and change with discussion questions and activities about...
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Who Am I? (14)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
What's the difference between a clown and a cashier? Use context clues to infer what each character does for a living in five different reading passages. Kids mark their choices on the space provided.
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Service Learning Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students plan a service project to contribute to their community and then reflect on their experience. For this service project lesson, students help in a food pantry or donation center in their community. Students then write statements...
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Evergreen's Green Team Energy Audit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the ways energy is used at their school and how it can be changed.  In this energy lesson, students participate in a service project related to energy. Middle schoolers record and calculate changes that...
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Taking Care of Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a service project. In this stewardship instructional activity, students review the concepts of philanthropy and environmental stewardship. Students practice being good stewards by researching public areas in their...
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Aluminum Can Drive

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a recycling project to clean-up their school. In this service project lesson, 2nd graders assess their campus for litter, set up a recycling project, clean up their campus, and recycle the trash. Students also...
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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the needs of their community. For this communities lesson, students use a decision-making model worksheet to determine what community service project they should donate to. Students count the money they have to donate...
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Celebrating the Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work to improve the community by generating funds to address a community need. In this community service project, students sponsor a event for the community. Students write letters to local representatives and invitations to the...
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Communities

For Students 7th - 8th
In this communities activity, students answer six questions true or false concerning different types of communities and read eight clues to identify eighty different community helpers.
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Final Steps - From Cinderella Project

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students culminate a service project associated with a Cinderella study. In this service project lesson plan, students write letters to thank donors and sponsoring organizations for their donations of shoes. They practice their...
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Is There a Stone in My Soup?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students plan a service project. In this service learning lesson, students demonstrate their understanding of philanthropy as they plan a stone soup party.
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Community Locations - Police Station, Fire Station, Library, Post Office

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students get excited about their community which can be extended through visits from members of the community or field trips. In this community helpers lesson, students demonstrate knowledge of the interaction of location, family,...
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Trucks and Community Workers

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and improve...
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Worksheet 5: Developing Policy Goals

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In this research guided project worksheet, students develop policy goals as they respond to 7 short answer questions that challenge them to assess community needs.
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How Do They Do That?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore different careers by discussing which community helpers might be considered local heroes. In this career exploration lesson plan, 3rd graders work in small groups to discuss why certain people are considered...

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