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How Can Our Talents Be Used Together?
Students investigate their individual talents. In this togetherness instructional activity, students listen to the poem "Togetherness Chant" and change the final stanza from play to work. Students brainstorm how they can use their...
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Using Our Talents for the Common Good LESSON 2: How Can Our Talents Be Used Together?
Students decide what talents are and how they can be used to help others. They recite a poem and write journal entries about using their talents.
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Saving Makes Cents
Students identify ways families save money. In this financial lesson plan, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and discuss ways to save money. Students identify coin values and practice counting money.
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Maskerade, My Self, And No Other
Students examine themselves, discover their strong, positive attributes, and recognize areas in need of improvement (since each individual possesses strengths but all people have some weaknesses). They develop self-acceptance, trust in...
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Walk a day in my moccasins
Students create videos about students in their classroom. In this self-expression instructional activity, students use videos to give voice to students who are reluctant or can't participate. Students listen to several books and generate...
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Seasoning the School Year
Students observe the changes a class tree goes through as the seasons change and record observations in journals. They investigate changes in the weather, changes in the length of the day, and how that affects people. They create...
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Kids' Kompany
Students explore philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students determine ways to earn money and consider how to use money for the common good.
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Souper Philanthropists: The Drive
Students understand how good- hearted people can make a difference to others. In this philanthropy lesson, students hear the story of a child who eats in a soup kitchen (Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen) and answer questions. Students...
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I'm a Philanthropist!
Students study the meaning of philanthropy. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students are introduced to the concept of philanthropy and name and illustrate a philanthropic act they could perform.
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Who Are You?
Pupils complete self projects such as a collage, an acrostic poem, a mural, and more, to show their similarities and differences. For this similarities and differences lesson plan, students can do these projects individually or in groups.
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Where Does It All Come From?
Students analyze a reading selection. In this community lesson, students read a story about how community helps a family in need. Students discuss their community organizations and how they help those in need.
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Plant, Point and Record the Life Cycles of Plants
Students examine the life cycle of plants. Individually, they are given a digital camera in which they take pictures of plants in the various stages of the life cycle. To end the lesson, they plant their own flower bed in the classroom...
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The Wants and Needs of Making a Difference
Students analyze a reading selection. In this wants and needs lesson, students read a story to facilitate a discussion about wants and needs. Students discuss how communities help each other in difficult times.
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Name Plaque
Learners create name plaques that are decorated in colors and designs that reveal aspects of their individual personalities.
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Homelessness
Students explore the importance of soup kitchens. In this philanthropy lesson, students brainstorm ways they can be philanthropists. Students watch a puppet show about a young girl who doesn't have enough to eat at home and has to go...
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The Hello Goodbye Window: Visual Art
Students create a portrait of themselves with a grandparent. In this visual art lesson plan, students read the book entitled The Hello Goodbye Window and discuss the events. Students then draw a portrait of themselves and...
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Kindness Certificate
Students demonstrate that gifts don't need to be bought. In this philanthropy lesson, students list types of gifts and create homemade gifts for family and friends from various materials.
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Tony Bennett VH1 Storytellers for VH1 Save the Music
Young scholars explore what messages lyrics give to their listeners. They use music from Tony Bennett and the Backstreet Boys.
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Giggle Poetry: "The Teachers' Show" Poetry Theater
In "The Teachers' Show," young scholars will participate in a poem in eight voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a zany talent show for teachers.