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Holiday Giving From the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in a holiday giving activity to learn about community involvement. In this community outreach instructional activity, students discuss giving and receiving as well as the gift of time. Students prepare songs and...
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Feeling Flashbacks

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students share and express feelings in order to build a sense of class community. They participate in an activity entitled Mill and Mingle.
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What is a Peaceful Classroom?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss the topic of peace and community. They identify their own examples to support their own idea of peace. They create a list of items that would make their classroom a more peaceful place.
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Land Use Competition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners represent a specific interest in the business community and present a plan to develop a 4 square mile area into a productive venture that benefit the community.
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Observation: It's A Natural!

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students play the role of naturalist in their own community just as Thoreau was in his. They observe their communities looking for positive and negative aspects on the environment. They work together in groups to complete a model for...
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Picture a Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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Local and Global Sustainability Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the characteristics that define a sustainable community at the local and global level. They create and prioritize a list of traits, read and discuss a magazine article, and create a poster.
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Community Map of The Giver

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read "The Giver" after finishing the unit on inventions and inventors. Using the information in the novel, they develop a geographic map illustrating the community in the story. They identify human and physical features and...
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Where Am I?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a Japanese folk tale called "The Traveling Frogs". They role play the story using puppets or costumes. They locate Japan on a map and discuss several geography topics. They independently write about ways they...
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A Graveyard Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students engage in the lesson that covers local community history by taking a field trip to a local graveyard. They do various activities prepared by the teacher that includes finding local important people who once lived in the community.
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Little Hands Help the Homeless

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore, analyze and study the concept of the homeless. They cover a wide range of classroom, community and career activities that define, develop, encourage, support and defend the homeless as well as what we can do as...
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Why Do People Wear Uniforms?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and interpret what uniforms are worn by people in the community and why. They also think about those who help them in their community and develop relationships with other children through role play activities. Students...
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Things I've Learned Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this community worksheet, students consider and summarize what they have learned about their community and "sense of place" by answering 6 short answer questions.
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A Planting We Will Go

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to transplant trees in their community. In this citizenship lesson, students construct a map of where to plant trees and then plant the trees.
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Responsibility and Jobs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify community helpers. In this philanthropy lesson, students read Strega Nona and identify different characters' responsibilities in the story. Students use character traits to describe the main characters and make a list...
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People Take the Stand

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how to be a philanthropist. In this community lesson, students define words associated with philanthropy. Students read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and discuss the problem and how it was solved. Students...
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Making Our World Better

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research on the Internet. In this community lesson, students use various websites to find characteristics of the United States, to learn the importance of having diverse communities and to discuss what they know about the...
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Multimedia Urban Stories: "This is who I am"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a photo essay. For this lesson encouraging self-expression, students view and reflect upon photo essays. Then, they go out into the community and create their own photo essay complete with captions. Students publish their...
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Seeking Shakespeare in Local Communities

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore where Shakespeare exists in local community plays. In this Shakespeare lesson, students create a documentary to define the existence of Shakespeare in their community drama activities. Students participate in community...
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Drawing The Line

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how arbitrary borders affect communities by participating in two hands-on activities and by reading about and discussing a community divided by national borders. They investigate the borders of their own neighborhoods.
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Memorable Museums

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe the impact of certain figures in United States history, including Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and iam Clark. They describe the general features of a community as well as specific features of their own...
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What Is A Business?

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners explore businesses. Using a newspaper, students identify all businesses mentioned or shown. The class creates a list of the types of businesses in the community and they categorize each service or product provided. After...
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Hometown Ecology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine how ecology is at work in their own community. As a class, they identify what they already know about the world around them and discuss how they personally affect the environment. Using magazines, newspapers and the...
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All About Me, My Family and Friends

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use general skills and strategies of the writing process to show their role in their family, school, friendships, the community and the world. They demonstrate their self-motivation and increasing responsibility for their own...

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