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Our Neighborhood as a Community
Young scholars understand that they are a part of a community with helpers that make a difference. In this community service lesson, students explore the diversity in a community and how its members make it a nice place to live. Young...
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Sharing Our Knowledge
Learners evaluate their participation in an animal welfare service project. In this animal welfare lesson, students reflect upon their experience by using their feelings and descriptions in their writing. Learners share their experiences.
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Why Does Service Matter?
Students were required to interview local community service volunteers. In groups, they present the information they gathered from the interview and determine if these people have made a difference in the community as a whole. They end...
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Our Town
Students discover what makes a community run smoothly by reading signs and visiting various places in their community. In this social studies instructional activity, small groups of students take photographs of community signs and places...
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Understanding Service Learning
Students define service learning and reflect on the purpose of the Global Youth Service Day. In this service learning lesson, students discuss and define service learning projects and the role youth has in their community. Students write...
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Harvesting the Crop
What is philanthropy? To find out learners explore the concept through class discussion. They survey, make decisions, implement, and reflect on a service project intended to benefit their community.
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Cinderella
Explore positive and negative character traits and universal themes in the story of Cinderella with primary learners. Story elements are reviewed and discussion questions are listed. Learners practice retelling the story and begin a...
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You Are Uniquely You
Students discover their unique attributes and complete a group service project. For this service project lesson, students work in groups to define an audience, create a service project based on boosting the audience's confidence, and...
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We Are Divine Creations (Tolerance)
Students learn ways people volunteer and the ways it helps their self and spirit. For this service project lesson, students define tolerance and study people or organizations who have demonstrated tolerance. Students then answer...
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Stay in the Mix ...With Summer Service!
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students consider community service work they may complete when school is not in session.
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Design of Our Own
Learners explore the concept of philanthropy. For this service learning lesson, students recognize family, school, and local community leaders who have contributed to the common good. Learners also study community foundations.
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Playground Design
Students design recreational equipment for a community. For this architecture lesson, students work in pairs to design the equipment. Students select materials and begin designing. Students assess themselves with a pre-made rubric.
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Our Classroom is a Community: LEAGUE Philanthropy Lesson
Students examine the concept of community. In this philanthropy lesson, students consider how their classroom could be considered a community and discuss how they can be philanthropists in their own classroom.
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Animal Shelters - Sharing Our Knowledge
Students arrange a service project for a local animal shelter. In this animal shelter instructional activity, students collect items to be given to a local shelter. They learn how to estimate the monetary value of the donated items. They...
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Helping Others
Learners explore community service. In this character development and community lesson, students sing a song based on the fable The Lion and the Mouse. Learners participate in a discussion about kindness, and generate ideas for...
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Working Animals
Students examine the need for the humane treatment of animals. In this animal welfare lesson, students realize the need for animal welfare, and decide on a service project that will promote it. The lesson culminates in the creation of a...
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Digital Video Interviews
Students explore the jobs in their community. In this career education lesson plan, students interview a community member about his or her job in the community. Students video the interview.
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I've Been Working in the Neighborhood
Students explore community helpers. In this social studies lesson, students research a variety of community helpers. Students choose a community helper and explain why they would want to spend a day helping that worker.
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Why Are People Hungry?
Young scholars discuss why many people don't have a balanced diet with nutritious food in order to not be hungry. In this hungry lesson plan, students learn what it means to eat healthy and start a service project for their community to...
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Using Connecting Themes in First Grade Social Studies
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 Takes Care of the Maya Forest Corridor?
Who keeps animals safe? Who keeps us safe? Discover the helpers that make learning and growing possible through a medley of activities that focus on habitats—ours and those in the rainforest. Scholars are asked to identify one...
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La Influencia Latina en Nuestra Comunidad (The Latino Influence in our Community)
Students visit a grocery store to create a list of Latino products. They take photographs of areas in their community that demonstrate the latino population. Students research community services available to the Latino population. They...
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Take a Dip: The Water in Our Lives
Students explore the function of storm drains and the importance of keeping them clean of debris. They obtain permission from local authorities and perform community service painting stenciled messages near existing storm drains.
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Workforce Solutions Pre-K Lessons
Four lessons, each following the same routine, explore the careers of a teacher, nurse, electrician, geologist, plumber, and police officer. After listening to a read-aloud and thoughtful discussion, young scholars construct puppets...