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Rain Garden

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers build rain gardens. In this community service lesson, students study the effectiveness of rain gardens in allowing water to run off. High schoolers build a community rain garden at their school.
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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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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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Teamwork and Leadership

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students complete activities as an analysis of leadership, teamwork, and community service. In this teamwork and leadership lesson, students discuss teamwork and read an example of it. Students participate in a teamwork building activity...
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Dream Bag

For Teachers K
Students discover the functions of different types of bags. In this product design lesson, students discuss they types of bags that people use and then create their own bags for their own purposes.
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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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A Haring Holiday

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a holiday ornament. For this Keith Haring art lesson, students use paper mache to make 3-dimensional ornaments that resemble his work. Students cut out felt shapes of babies, dogs and angels then sew them together...
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Office Secretary

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore school secretaries. In this ELL vocabulary and language development lesson, students look at pictures of school secretaries performing various jobs and give oral descriptions of what they see. Students visit the school...
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I've Been Working in the Neighborhood

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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Now You Have It, Now You Don't

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the value of service. In this consumer practices lesson, 5th graders investigate natural resource protection needs. Students participate in the preservation of natural resources through service learning.
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Get To Know Your Local Philanthropic Organizations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop appropriate interview questions, interview a philanthropic organization, and present information to the class. They use pamphlets and/or other materials gained during their interviews to mount a display about the local...
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Charting the Course

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list and describe the characteristics of a good citizen relative to democracy. They see that philanthropy is part of good citizenship and exemplify philanthropy through random acts of kindness. Each group will be responsible for...
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I Am Who We Are

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy and identify specific acts of philanthropy that have affected them personally. They plan and carry out acts of philanthropy focusing on giving back to their community.
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Spread the Word!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers review what they have learned about community service, philanthropy, prejudice and racism in previous lessons. They design a lesson or service learning experience that can be given to and implemented by elementary school...
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Pee Wee Scouts

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read books to discover the importance of friendship, teamwork, and community service. After reading the book, they discuss conflict resolution strategies. Students discuss healthy eating food pyramids. They write an essay...
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Coloring Page: The Policeman

For Students K - 1st
In this social studies instructional activity, learners learn about police officers as community helpers. Students color the picture of the policeman who is directing traffic.
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Helpful Holidays

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this holiday writing worksheet, young scholars consider community service or being helpful to others. Students read the story starter and write how they could be helpful to others.
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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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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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Connect the Dots and Write: People

For Students K - 3rd
In this people connect the dots and write worksheet, learners trace 15 people words 2 times each. Students match the 15 words to the pictures of the appropriate words.
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Write About These People

For Students K - 3rd
In this writing practice learning exercise, students write 12 original sentences about the 12 people pictured on this learning exercise.
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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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Community Heritage

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss cultural issues in their community. In this cultural lesson plan, students meet a local Hispanic activist and discuss current issues in the community.
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Nature Tribute

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore parts of nature. In this environmental lesson, students discuss how their actions can affect the environment and design a plan to clean up a specified area. Students practice good hygiene during the cleanup project.

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