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Learning to Give

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn what it means to give generously. In this giving instructional activity, students give examples of when they have given of themselves. Students complete a service project where they create a gift for preschoolers with...
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Protection

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
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Service-Based Engineering Design Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Do some good for the community while learning about engineering. Groups complete a service-based engineering design project over the course of five weeks. The resource provides guidance on how to conduct the project and help pupils get...
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Proud to Be of Service

For Teachers K - 12th
Observe the National Day of Service and Remembrance with a service learning lesson plan. After discussing the events of September 11, 2001, learners plan and implement their own service learning project in honor of American...
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Service Learning

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the value in helping others.  In this ethics lesson, students use videos, worksheets, Internet articles and group discussion to develop a personal perspective on what it means to help others.
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Taking Action! Educating as a Form of Service

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students read the story Happy Hearts in Manabí by Peace Corps Volunteer Kristen Mallory to consider how educating others can be a form of service. For this health education and service lesson, students read the book and...
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Kids Helping Kids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience reading in a multi-age learning community. In this partner reading lesson, students plan and implement a "Reading Buddy" program. Students practice oral reading, select sight vocabulary to "teach" the younger student,...
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Throw A Tennis Ball Into The Service Court

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are engaged in the introductory skills of playing tennis and develop the ability to overhead serve. They practice serving a ball over the net without a return being made. This is done to work on technique and speed of serving...
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What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars implement a volunteer plan. In this philanthropy lesson, students discuss the needs of their community and list possible ways to improve their community. Young scholars develop a plan to volunteer their time in their...
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We Are All Pieces of the Puzzle

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are shown a small puzzle. They are explained that without all the pieces, a puzzle is not complete. Students are explained that the same principle applies to the world of work. They are also explained that each person who...
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Community Helpers

For Teachers K
Students discuss important jobs in the community such as; mail carriers and hospital workers. They participate in creative projects that allow them to become more familiar with what these specific workers do. This lesson can be extended...
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National Center for Families Learning

The Summer Fun Summer Learning Drama and Plays Unit

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
The play's the thing that puts the play in a summer learning drama program designed to combat summer slide and encourage family literacy. Participants learn about drama as an art form, engage in dramatic presentations, write scripts, and...
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Getting the Word Out

For Teachers 4th - 12th
An appropriate way to celebrate and conclude the construction of a rain garden is to share it with the community. Small groups collaborate to design an outreach product such as a PowerPoint presentation, brochure, or poster, to draw...
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The Many Roles I Play in My Community

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Small groups brainstorm their roles in the community. Then, individually, complete a community roles web worksheet. Peers share their completed product and extend the conversation to include the feelings and character traits that go...
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GeorgiaStandards.org

Using Connecting Themes in First Grade Social Studies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
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 Am I? (14)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
What's the difference between a clown and a cashier? Use context clues to infer what each character does for a living in five different reading passages. Kids mark their choices on the space provided.
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Service Learning Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners plan a service project to contribute to their community and then reflect on their experience. In this service project lesson, students help in a food pantry or donation center in their community. Learners then write statements...
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Evergreen's Green Team Energy Audit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the ways energy is used at their school and how it can be changed.  In this energy instructional activity, students participate in a service project related to energy. Learners record and calculate changes that...
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Taking Care of Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in a service project. In this stewardship lesson plan, students review the concepts of philanthropy and environmental stewardship. Middle schoolers practice being good stewards by researching public areas in...
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Aluminum Can Drive

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a recycling project to clean-up their school. In this service project lesson, 2nd graders assess their campus for litter, set up a recycling project, clean up their campus, and recycle the trash. Students also...
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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the needs of their community. In this communities lesson, students use a decision-making model worksheet to determine what community service project they should donate to. Students count the money they have to donate...
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Celebrating the Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers work to improve the community by generating funds to address a community need. In this community service project, students sponsor a event for the community. Middle schoolers write letters to local representatives and...
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Communities

For Students 7th - 8th
In this communities activity, students answer six questions true or false concerning different types of communities and read eight clues to identify eighty different community helpers.
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Is There a Stone in My Soup?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students plan a service project. In this service learning lesson, students demonstrate their understanding of philanthropy as they plan a stone soup party.

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