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Truth, Trash and Treasure
Students examine how people can make a difference in the world. They read and analyze excerpts from a novel, discuss song lyrics, clean up a local park, and write an essay.
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Act of Honesty
Middle schoolers analyze examples of honesty. In this character education lesson, students role play various situations and decide if they should engage in honest or dishonest behaviors.
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Defining Caring
Middle schoolers demonstrate the philanthropic act of caring. In this character education lesson, students brainstorm synonyms for care or caring and think of ways to demonstrate caring qualities.
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Common Good in Aztec Culture Lesson 2: Aztec Religion
Students examine human sacrifice and read about Aztec gods and religious practices. They study Aztec sacrifice while looking at opportunity costs of doing things for the common good.
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Group Alignment
Students discuss proper ways to work in a group. In this character education lesson, students identify the vocabulary words "inclusion" and "exclusion" and create a list of ways to respect others in a group setting.
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Living Integrity
Young scholars analyze scenarios regarding integrity. In this character education lesson, students participate in group discussions. Young scholars analyze various scenarios regarding integrity and construct a written response in their...
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Spend, Save or Donate
Students identify the difference between spending, saving, and donating. They brainstorm reasons to give and options to donate. They sing a song about donating to charity.
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Community Helpers
Students investigate community helpers. For this communities lesson, students compare and contrast for-profit and non-profit jobs and choose one job to illustrate on paper.
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Public Trust
Learners discover public trust. In this civics lesson plan, students explore how to promote public trust as they use their resources to support worthy politicians, athletes, celebrities, and corporations.
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Pocahontas
Students identify how Pocahontas contributed to the common good. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students read a selection about Pocahontas and identify ways that she was philanthropic. Students role play an action that...
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Introduction to the Holocaust
Eighth graders examine the implications of the Holocaust. In this human justice lesson plan, 8th graders unknowingly participate in a segregation simulation and discuss its outcome. Students compare the simulation to the discrimination...
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Setting the Stage
Students investigate the importance of literacy to philanthropy. In this literacy lesson, students read the book, Amber on the Mountain, before answering questions about the main character's motives for learning to read. They make charts...
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Life in Ancient India
Students study Ancient India and the vocabulary, language, and everyday life associated with India. They build a time capsule representing their own world for future civilizations to discover. They create labels for each item, giving a...
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Great Barrier Reef
Students explore the Barrier Reef as they work though several creative activities. Giving tours of the Reef and creating a brochure become competitive tasks as students compete for the job.
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World History Fair and Exposition
Learners role-play as invitees to the World's Fair to develop a virtual electronic pavilion or poster presentation about the United States, its history and challenges. They act as tour guides giving their presentations and answering...
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What is Bullying?
Learners brainstorm ideas or create a definition of what bullying is. They write their ideas on the board. They then break into cooperative groups giving each group a form of bullying from a list and discussing it among themselves.
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Volunteering Our Time
Young scholars participate in a service learning project. In this philanthropy lesson, students volunteer their time at a local soup kitchen and reflect upon the experience in a journal.
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How the Community Meets Needs: The Drive
Students explore the four sectors of the economy. In this character development lesson, students experience giving up "their worldly possessions" and then discuss feelings that might occur when people experience homelessness or the...
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Nonprofit Organizations in Our Community: Interviewing Representatives
Students interview representatives from nonprofit organizations. In this philanthropy activity, students prepare questions for a representative from a nonprofit organization. After conducting the interview, they are to prepare a short...
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Advice, Encouragement, Discouragement
Students create a fitness schedule for a famous person. In this advice, encourage, discourage lesson, students ask questions to determine the best fitness schedule for a person. Students relate this activity to that of...
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Mock Trial, A Service Activity
Students present a courtroom simulation demonstrating common good, decision making model, opportunity cost, limited resources, pursuit of happiness and civic writing.
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Reach Into the "Caring Container"
Students examine the meaning of philanthropic behavior. In this philanthropy lesson, students read caring phrases on index cards and decide how to carry out the activity. They write or draw an example of a caring activity as an...
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Helping Hands Across the Word
Students explore ways to prevent poverty. In this philanthropy activity, students read the stories Beatrice's Goat and Give a Goat and construct a Venn diagram comparing the two stories. Students discuss how to conserve resources to...
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We Need More Than Money
Young scholars identify examples of private resources. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and identify the private resources the characters used in the text. Young scholars name private resources...