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We the Community
Learners explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students design and create informational books regarding nonprofit agencies and philanthropists in their community.
Therapist Aid
What is Bullying?
What is the definition of bullying, and how can you deal with it? Elementary and middle schoolers discuss verbal, physical, social, and cyberbullying before talking about strategies to avoid and stop bullying in their school.
International Technology Education Association
Become a Weather Wizard
Accurate weather forecasting is something we take for granted today, making it easy to forget how complex it can be to predict the weather. Learn more about the terms and symbols used to forecast the weather with an earth science lesson...
University of Wisconsin
Follow the Drop
Young surveyors look for patterns in water flow around campus. Using a map of the school (that you will need to create), they mark the direction of the path of water. They also perform calculations for the volume that becomes runoff. The...
Novelinks
Words by Heart: Prefixes/Suffixes Activity
This lesson is so beneficial it makes any teacher's heart skip a beat! After readers identify words from Words by Heart, they break down unknown vocabulary with a handout detailing various prefixes and suffixes. Once they finish...
University of North Carolina
Getting Feedback
As many writers know, you are your own worst editor. The 10th installment in the Writing the Paper series explains that getting feedback from others is crucial to the writing process. The handout highlights the best time to ask others to...
Curated OER
We Care For Our Commons
Students demonstrate how volunteering makes a difference in a community. For 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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Meeting Our Daily Needs
Students investigate the concept of basic needs. In this philanthropy activity, students define the term "philanthropy" and brainstorm ways to help others who don't get their basic needs met. Students analyze and sort acts of...
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Making a Difference
Students create a plan to better their school. In this civil service lesson, students will deepen their understanding of the term "philanthropy" by reflecting on Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech and a quote by John F....
Curated OER
We Are a Comm-un-it-y. I've Got All My Classmates with Me-Part I
Students investigate the meaning of community. In this community lesson, students look at the concepts of civic engagement, civic responsibility, and common good. They determine how a classroom is a community and the need for having...
Curated OER
Why Should We Fix the World?
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students examine Jewish traditions tikkun olam and malchut shakai. Students discuss how to apply Jewish beliefs in order to help others in the world.
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Create a Volunteer Spirit
Students evaluate how volunteering helps others. For this philanthropy lesson, students define what a volunteer is and brainstorm a group volunteer project to implement in the school. Students write an essay describing how volunteering...
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Taking Care of Business
Students participate in a service project. For this stewardship lesson, students review the concepts of philanthropy and environmental stewardship. Students practice being good stewards by researching public areas in their school or...
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Bridges for All: Better Way
Students explore organizations founded for the common good. In this character education lesson plan, students read about organizations that developed for the common good during the Civil War and Reconstruction. In small groups, students...
Curated OER
Creating the Pamphlet
Young scholars create philanthropic brochures. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students make promotional pamphlets and offer theirs products to philanthropic organizations.
Curated OER
Learning to Master: Some Ideas from Tradition
Students explore the Biblical teachings. In this stewardship lesson, students cite passages from the Bible that promote philanthropy and identify Biblical texts that contradict one another.
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Examples of Sharing as Told Through a Native American Legend
Students explore community problem solving. In this cross-curriculum literature and social studies lesson plan, students listen to The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie DePaola and discuss how a Native American community problem was...
Curated OER
Honesty in Writing
Help your class construct an honest and clear writing piece. They explore tactics in advertising and identify deceptive language. They then write a statement about a community issue using honest language.
Curated OER
Love Your Neighbors Like Yourself (Private-Religious)
Learners role play. In this service lesson, students brainstorm what it means to love their neighbor as themselves. Learners discuss why it is important to help others and role play scenarios where they volunteer to help someone in need.
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A Day at the Beach: How to Keep Our Planet Clean
Students write a persuasive essay based on cleaning up the coast and other philanthropic values. In this writing instructional activity, students determine what is needed in order to keep the planet clean, and offer solutions to the...
Curated OER
Passing Notes
Students demonstrate the importance of sharing compliments. In this character education lesson, students write compliments on post-it notes to one of their classmates.
Curated OER
Vocabulary; Praising Someone/Giving Compliments-2
In this foreign language worksheet, students are given ten sentences, each with a missing word. Students read the sentences and select the best word to fill in the blank. All sentences are examples of ways to give a compliment to another...
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Hairy Shamrocks
Students create shamrocks out of sponges. In this art lesson, students plant grass seeds in the sponges so that when the grass grows it looks like hair.
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Kid-Friendly CDVs
Students discover core democratic values. In this service learning lesson, students create posters in order to promote core democratic values.