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- 8th
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Students recognize the connection between their religious faith and social responsibility. After a lecture/demo, student groups complete a worksheet imbedded in this plan, then create posters depicting community service. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students select a hero-based story from their community. They develop interview questions, conduct an in-depth interview, and write a newspaper-style article that be submitted to the My Hero website. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students watch a video that illustrates the way in which an English community evolved based on geography and the settlers and invaders who lived there over different time periods. They create a map that shows how different villages are connected. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students create a map to depict the relationship between human actions and salmon populations. They work in teams to research, design and produce a community map that show how industry and development affect salmon habitats. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, after viewing the video "Tell About the South II: Poets and Prophets," analyze the section on Eudora Welty and her photography work and writings. They focus on photojournalism and its enlightenment regarding cultures that are not our own. In addition, they create a photographic slide show that is thematic in nature. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students compile a portfolio of work from a unit on Maine's natural resources and economy. They choose four of their best assignments from the unit then synthesize the ideas in each to write an essay or construct a visual history on the past and present uses of natural resources in their community. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify specific places, people and associations related to where they live. Using buildings, they discuss how they are designed by architects but used by people who live and work in them. They use mock bricks to form a wall of ideas about their community. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a study of the community and specifically look at the organization National Council For Jewish Women. They conduct research about the gathering of funds for worthy causes. Students define what a worthy cause is and what types of criteria there must be. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore the dolphin as a symbol of friendship between the Chumash people and the community of Santa Barbara. They visit or view pictures of a fountain at Stearns Wharf that depicts this relationship then they compose a poem expressing what the fountain means to them. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students investigate the significance of rice in Asian communities as they examine its growing cycle. They work in groups of six to demonstrate the steps of the rice growth cycle. They draw and make calendars that depict this cycle. Full Review »

