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A Straightforward Approach

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this character education instructional activity, students discuss the value of honesty and consider honesty towards self, family, friends, and the community as they write a...
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Lesson 8-The Changing Environment: Good or Bad?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, after listening to "A River Ran Wild," explore all the ways the natural environment has changed and how it affects the community and the people who reside within it. They collect data by interviewing a community member,...
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Purposeful Act of Kindness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define a community need and explain a purposeful act of kindness. In this community kindness lesson plan, students identify a community need before making a quilt that depicts acts of kindness that can be extended to remedy that...
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If I Had A Million Dollars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a persuasive letter. In this philanthropy lesson, students write about what they would do if they had a million dollars. They discuss worthwhile community causes they could donate money to. Students also research...
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We the Past

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study philanthropy related terms and philanthropy in the United States and their local community. In this philanthropy lesson, students study pictures of present and past Americans and discuss their philanthropic acts. Students...
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Timber Harvesting: A Civic Debate

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze and identify the importance of our forests and how to manage them properly.  In this tree lesson students read forestry material and come up with different alternatives to the identified problems. 
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We Are What We Remember

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in research, small-group discussions, whole class discussions, family interviews, and interaction with multimedia resource material as they explore the relationship between memory and history.
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Our Changing Voices

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine their role in society. They search primary documents and assemble a family album.
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Fairness

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders define "fairness." They discuss importance of treating all people with fairness, verbally list way they can be fair to others, and keep track of fairness they see in the classroom by recording incidents on a "Fairness and...
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4-H Food Science- Intermediate Activity

For Students 5th - 7th
In this nutrition worksheet set, students complete a dinner detective nutrient fill in the blank, a food safety true or false page, and plan a picnic with food safety rules in mind. They investigate careers that involve food safety.
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Learning About Philanthropy With Hands-On Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students can combine state-mandated curriculum with philanthropic activities in these lessons.
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First Grade Tour Guides

For Teachers 1st
First graders plan a tour to give their parents on a school parent night. For this school tour lesson plan, 1st graders gather information about their school, determine how to best present information, and prepare a tour and talk to...
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Problem-Solving

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students help solve real-life classroom problems. In this problem solving activity, the class sits down as a whole and discusses possible solutions to real problems that they face as a class.
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Roxaboxen

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a model of a community building that contributes to a class neighborhood layout. They explain the purpose of his or her individual role and community building, and how it fits into the class model of a neighborhood.
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Community Action

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders brainstorm a list of decisions that students make daily that affect the welfare of the environment categorizing them as being either helpful or harmful. They then trace local actions to distant consequences to determine how...
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Community Service Through Art: Empty Bowls

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders become more aware of the worldwide poverty issues. Through reading books, they can get a feeling for what the daily life of a person who lives in poverty is like. The research skills studied can be used in different subjects.
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Architecture : A Reflection of Our Times

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore types of architecture and how it has changed throughout history. They predict what homes of the future may look like. Students investigate a variety of well known architects from around the world and from different...
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How Do Our Attitudes Affect Waste?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars take a survey to assess typical purchasing practices, to determine the influence of packaging on consumer choices. They also determine whether consumers consider waste disposal and recycling when making purchasing decisions.
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Korea in Your Community

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify Korean products sold in the US and become aware of Korea's importance in international trade.
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All Our Relations: A Learning Experience

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a group activity in which they each represent various components of a story about culture, collective human rights, and indigenous rights. As the story is read they create a life-size story web with yarn. Then...
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Looking at the Community Tree

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the characteristics of living and nonliving organisms. As a class, they observe a tree and describe the interactions between the living and nonliving organisms surrounding it. To end the activity, they ask a...
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Community Improvement

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine a local body of water to determinet the health of its ecosystem and monitor it during the year. If needed they write a report on any conditions that need improvement including photographs and relevant data.
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Our Systematic Body

For Teachers 1st
Students explore several parts of the body system in the eight lessons of this unit. Through several hands-on activities, the skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory and nervous systems are observed.
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Architecture: The Badge of Identity for Our Society

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students prepare a "camera's-eye" view of the local architecture and then analyze their findings from an historical perspective.

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