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Just a Spoonful of Rights Makes the Responsibility Go 'Round

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students define rights and responsibilities. Students discuss the role of philanthropy in contributing to the common good. They also review historical...
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Philanthropy "Giants"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students report on the activism of corporate philanthropists. In this service learning lesson, students research companies that operate as philanthropists and identify their recipients.
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Disaster Relief - Power, Generosity and Leadership

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students discover philanthropy's role in 4 economic sectors. Middle schoolers examine how organizations responded to the Hurricane Katrina devastation...
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Finding Our Bonds: King Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students experience literature and participate in a simulation that examines discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes.
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Just-Us and Kindness: A Voice for Children: King Day

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate philanthropy. In this service learning instructional activity, 8th graders read human rights literature and use information gleaned to discuss children's rights around the world. Students discuss scenarios...
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Design of Our Own

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students recognize family, school, and local community leaders who have contributed to the common good. Middle schoolers also study community...
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Following in Their Footsteps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students reflect upon the activity of tikkun olam as they read "First They Came for the Jews." Students plan and execute a tikkun olam project of their...
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Preparing the Soil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students read Seedfolks and discuss the characters in the story and consider their actions that led to a community garden. Students journal about their...
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Special Delivery—Handle with Care

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students visit a retirement home with their classmates. Students deliver cards and plants to the residents there.
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Government by the People

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students examine primary documents regarding the founding of the United States. Middle schoolers analyze section of the U.S. Constitution and the...
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Cultural Connections

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students examine the impact of the works of Cesar Chavez, George Washington Carver, Sunderlal Buhuguna, and Abdul Sattar Edhi.
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Biography Report- Learning Microsoft Word

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn how to use Microsoft Word. In this biography lesson, students participate in mini-lessons on key features of Microsoft Word and then use it to write a multi-part biography report.
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Learning Theories

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students access the ERIC database and search for the resources on learning theories. They use the features of ERIC to bookmark sources and then use Excel to create a summary of the database search.
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Learning the Basic Levers...One, Two, Three: Different Basic Arrangements Levers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read information about levers. They complete worksheets to summarize their learning. This instructional activity relies heavily on the Silver Burdett Ginn text, Science Discovery Works, Energy, Work, and Machines. The...
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Story Map Book Report

For Teachers 1st - 7th
This is an example of what a story map book report can look like using mind wing teaching concepts. Consider this idea as a way to provide special needs or those with learning disabilities a way to communicate what they know or learned...
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Read to Learn

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the concept of community helpers.  In this community helper instructional activity, students brainstorm the community helpers in their neighborhood after reading a book about jobs in the community.  Students...
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Learning Another Language is to Know Another Culture

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Lure more learners into your foreign language class with this informative PowerPoint. It outlines key factors in becoming successful with a second language, as well as why it can be beneficial for students' futures. Tip: Show this during...
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Heritage Foundation

How to Read the Constitution

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Even lawyers can find the US Constitution to be very wordy! Help learners create a foundation for understanding the Constitution with several analysis essays. Multiple activities complement the reading and allow for active and meaningful...
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Heritage Foundation

Courts and Judges

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If the Supreme Court is so supreme, why do all cases not just start there? High schoolers learn why every case does not start at the Supreme Court as well as the importance of hierarchy in the US judicial system in the 11th installment...
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K20 LEARN

Move, Flip, and Slide! Building Relationships and Community In the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here's a fresh take on those first days of school introductions. Learners use Flipgrid to create a video that introduces themselves to their classmates. The richly detailed and carefully scaffolded lesson provides specific directions for...
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Connecting Africa: A Project-Based Learning Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Mission Possible: Your task is to design a new highway route from Tunis, Tunisia to Cape Town, South Africa. If you accept the challenge, you must create a small map of the route that has already been rejected, a...
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Purdue University

Simple Machines – Dog Gone It!

For Teachers 3rd
How can people use simple machines to solve real-world STEM problems? Learn about simple machines using a hands-on, project-based learning activity. First, pupils investigate and evaluate simple machines. Then, they receive a task that...
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"Lettuce" Learn About the Water Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scientists investigate the water cycle through a lettuce seed experiment. For this experiment, learners plant lettuce seeds inside of a ziplock bag in order to create a small greenhouse. They observe condensation and precipitation,...
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University of Southern California

Persecution of the German-Jews: The Early Years - 1933-1939

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young historians learn about the dehumanization process of stripping German Jews of basic, fundamental rights prior to the genocide of European Jews in the 1940s. Learners watch video clips of survivors who recount such events...

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