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Create Your Own Service Project

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners develop a community service project. In this service project lesson, students identify a concern within their community, set a goal, from a plan, and carryout a service project using the project guidelines.
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Exploring Community Needs

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify the needs of their community. For this communities lesson, students brainstorm the needs of their community and prepare a letter to a local official to address the community need.
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Community Helpers

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

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the different jobs of people in the community. In this careers instructional activity, students read Helpers in My Community and have parents come into the classroom to do a short presentation on their jobs.
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Community Careers

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars explore services in their community. In this community services lesson, students discuss community services and work in teams to list the jobs within the service. Young scholars may also shadow a worker from that community...
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Opening Lesson: Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a community service project and present an art project.  In this lesson on community service, students read Rainbow Fish and discuss its meaning for them as it relates to community. Students create an art...
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What Makes My Community Special

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a symbol to represent their classroom community. In this community lesson plan, students discuss what their classroom community is like and create symbols in groups to present to the rest of the class.
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Our Community Helpers

For Teachers K
Students explore community helpers in order to explain how they fit into their community and the world.
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Service Project

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a service project. In this community service lesson plan, students use their special talents to help others. Students draw or write about the service they've provided. The class turns this into a class book.
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Animal Shelter Service Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete a community service project. In this community service lesson, students discuss the needs of animals in animal shelters. They contact an animal shelter and help with one of these needs. 
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Homeless Shelter Service Project

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research ways to help a homeless shelter and design a service project to meet the needs. For this service project lesson, students identify and develop a list of ways to meet a homeless shelter's needs. Students then conduct a...
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Women's Shelter Service Project

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research ways to help a women's shelter in a service project. In this service project lesson plan, students develop ways to meet needs of a women's shelter. Students select a need, plan, and conduct a service project to meet...
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Community Helpers

For Students 7th - 8th
In this community helpers worksheet, students review, discuss and answer eight sentences regarding community helpers and then place them in a crossword puzzle.
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Community Helpers

For Students 7th - 8th
For this history worksheet, students complete eight sentences involving community helpers and then place their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

Benjamin Franklin’s Community Contributions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research Benjamin Franklin's community contributions. In this social studies lesson plan, students create a collage showing things they can do to improve their communities.
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Community Helpers

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify community workers and what tools they use by successfully completing a concentration game, matching community workers with a tool they use.
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People in My Community

For Students K - 3rd
In this community helpers learning exercise, students use the 16 words in the word bank to locate and identify them in the word search puzzle.
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Building Community in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners build a sense of community within the classroom. In this community lesson students create individual pieces of a puzzle that when put together represent the community within their classroom. The central piece is "community".
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My Community

For Teachers 1st
First graders design a Powerpoint presentation to reflect information about their community.  In this community instructional activity, 1st graders create slides to explain the weather, geography and other information about the city.
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Daily Journal Topics: My Community

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this social studies worksheet, students study their community by keeping a journal of writing. Students color the cover picture and use the lined paper which has room for a picture for daily writing. There are 10 thought-provoking...
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Special Places in Our Community

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars compare and contrast cities whether they are large or small, rural or urban. They use digital photography to take pictures of the different types of cities.
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Why Does Service Matter?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students determine how community members serve others. In this service learning instructional activity, students interview community members who volunteer by serving others. Students then determine how they could serve their community.
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The ABCs of Our Nation

For Students 4th - 5th
For this social studies worksheet, students are directed to a Web site to find out what makes our Nation special. Students create an acrostic poem about our country. Students then explore the need for responsible living within a...
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Fame, Fortune, and Philanthropy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With your middle schoolers, develop concepts such as philanthropy, civic responsibility, community service, and common good. Discuss famous philanthropists and what we can each give of our time, talent and treasure to better our...

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