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Recycling: Responsible Behaviors
Take the time to teach learners with moderate disabilities how to identify recyclable materials. They learn how to recycle as a mode of social responsibility and community involvement. They practice identifying and sorting recyclable...
Curated OER
Electricity and Food: From Glowing Pickles in Citrus Batteries
Fifth graders explore electrical concepts and host a guest speaker. This lesson sets up guidelines for students to follow when they have a guest speaker. Students are primed to become actively involved in a lecture or discussion, while...
Curated OER
Visual Arts: Art in Public Places
Students create 3 dimensional art. In this sculpture lesson, students collect objects that represent their community's values to include in a 3 dimensional sculpture. Students write a paragraph explaining the chosen theme of their...
Curated OER
Let's Walk That Talk
Students present persuasive speeches about philanthropy. In this persuasive speech lesson, students create speeches to encourage younger children to become involved in their communities. Students use video recorders and digital cameras...
Curated OER
Exploring Our Legacy of Giving
Middle schoolers analyze and interpret the meaning of a famous quote to their own lives. In this philanthropic responsibility lesson, students generate a list of positive traits shared by the local community. Middle schoolers discuss...
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Dance: Cultural Dance Festival
Students participate in a folk dance presentation. In this multi-cultural lesson, students and their families work together to learn and perform folk dances at a school sponsored festival. The teacher acts as facilitator, working with...
Curated OER
Advise And Consent Lesson 1: Limits of Power
Students examine the importance of citizens being involved in their community government for the common good. They look at the importance of limiting government and the concepts of philanthropy.
Other
One Hen, Inc: Learn, Play, Make a Difference
This site is based on the book, One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, by Katie Smith Milway. Learn how small loans, called microfinance, can make an impact on people's lives. There are lesson plans, games, and interviews...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Serving Immigrant Students Through School Community Partnerships
How do district and school partnerships with community-based organizations help schools better meet the needs of recent immigrant students? This article provides some examples of promising strategies in which community-based...
iCivics
I Civics: Counties Work
Do you want to make your community a better place to live? In Counties Work, you decide about the programs and services that affect everyone! Your choices shape the community, and your citizens' satisfaction determines whether you'll get...
Learning to Give
Learning to Give: Active Citizenship Through Spectacles of Ben Franklin
This detailed lesson plan has learners investigating and participating in their communities.
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Multicultural History Society: Seeing Our Surroundings (Sos)
This is a secondary project that was undertaken at a Toronto High school. Students interviewed people in their neighbourhood to explore the meaning of community. They also learned about what it means to be Canadian.
EL Education
El Education: Munjoy Hill Businesses
Students interview local business owners and create a brochure with digital photographs and information about each business in the neighborhood.
EL Education
El Education: Radon Study
Students work together with local scientists and undergraduates students at a local college to learn about radon and test radon levels in their area. Students collected information through interviews and prepared individual reports for...
EL Education
El Education: Reshaping Rochester
After learning about the effects of re-watering a dry water way in their city, students realize that public support would be needed for such an undertaking. In order to determine public support, students design and implement a survey,...
EL Education
El Education: Reshaping Rochester: Spreading the Word Brochure
After learning about the effects of re-watering a dry water way in their city, students create a brochure to highlight the information they gathered and boost public support for this project in their community.
EL Education
El Education: Revitalize Rochester
Students research the effects of a city restoring water to a dry waterway and then create a report designed to inform and persuade voters to reconsider their views after voting down such a restoration in Rochester, New York.
EL Education
El Education: Revitalize Rochester Poster
After writing a report on the effects of restoring water ways in various cities, students create a poster advertising the presentation of the report to city officials and asking the public to attend in order to learn more about this...
EL Education
El Education: Stream Water Quality Report
Middle school students partner with undergraduate students at a local college to test the quality of the surface water in their town. Students gather data and research to write a final report for each of the eight areas tested, and then...
EL Education
El Education: Recycling
Students find out how many bags of garbage their school produces and work through math processes to create graphs and make projections. Then they share this information with the school and make suggestions about how to decrease the...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Do Something: What Is Civic Action
This impressive lesson plan incorporates listening to music, critical thinking, collaboration and community participation for pupils to understand good citizenship.