Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, learners will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...

This lesson focuses on how engineers improve assistive devices such as a cane to meet the needs of the elderly. Students work in teams to re-engineer a cane for a "client." They are assigned a client profile, develop a design to suit the...

Students will learn the importance of acts of kindness. They will create a pot painted with acrylic paints, and or paint pens. They will place beautiful decorated tissue flowers in the pot. The music club will present a holiday...

Explore the history of health care and health insurance in 20th century America and create an illustrated timeline featuring major events and policies that led to the current state of national health care crisis.

Explore the high cost of health insurance coverage in this country and identify the populations which have the most trouble affording it. Investigate and propose solutions to the problem of under-insured or uninsured members of our society.

Investigate the crisis involving high prescription costs and explore health insurance options and the terminology associated with health care. Examine the impact of health care issues on government legislation and use layman's terms to...

Jin Mo-young's film My Love, Don't Cross that River documents the final years of a South Korean couple, 89-year-old Kang Gye-Yeol and 98-year-old Jo Byeong-Man, who have been married for 76 years. The film, which follows the couple over...

In Watch Me by Norah McClintock, Kaz yields to temptation and steals an elderly lady's purse after initially setting out to help her get up from a fall. Then he learns he must confront the serious consequences of his actions. This...