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Signs of Spring Door Hanging

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners create their own original design for a spring door decoration. As a class, they follow specific instructions to make the decorate the door piece. They also practice using art supplies and materials correctly and complete a...
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Aquanaut: Webelos Activity Badge Workbook

For Students 6th - 8th
This worksheet includes a checklist of swimming-related accomplishments to achieve in order to earn the Aquanaut Webelos badge. If you are a P.E. or swim instructor, this may be useful to you too.
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4-H Dairy Activity Page; Ethical Decision Making

For Students 5th - 9th
Get your 4-H farmers ready for their dairy project with this activity page, which focuses on helping students form ethical decisions. A variety of activities, including a scavenger hunt, a word search and viewing the anatomy of a dairy...
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Photography Merit Badge Workbook

For Students 7th - 12th
Engage your class in photography with this series of activities! Beginning photographers research and explain elements of photography, camera equipment, and careers in photography. After the research portion, learners complete one of two...
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Communications: Merit Badge Workbook

For Students 5th - 12th
If you have a boy scout troop, consider this merit badge workbook to help keep track of communication activities. Boy scouts work with counselors to record communicative interactions. They also complete a series of activities that...
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Swimming

For Students 8th - 12th
This merit badge workbook for swimming provides a checklist of achievements necessary to secure this Boy Scout badge. It includes 10 potential health concerns related to swimming and asks about their prevention and treatment. This is a...
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“Self Reliance” Questions

For Students 9th - 12th
Is consistency foolish? Or is “foolish consistency . . . the hobgoblin of little minds”? Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self Reliance” provides readers with an opportunity to reflect on their own musing about being self-reliant and about...
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What Is A Community?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners engage in a lesson which introduces the definition of a community and challenges them to explore the characteristics of their own community. This lesson uses the true story of Humphrey the Lost Whale as an illustration of how...
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Active Citizens 101

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore and investigate multiple aspects of citizenship and democracy in a sequence of lessons that involve thoughtful discussin and participation to assist in gaining a better perspective of what citizenship and domocracy is,...
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A Web Of Workers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate different occupations and how they rely on each other.  In this community lesson, students create a job web, linking occupations to other occupations that rely on each other.  Students create their own perfect job...
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Making a Connection

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars research why government community workers are important to us. They work in teams to identify and illustrate the jobs and services provided by these community workers. Assessment comes from their Student Concept Maps.
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Tackling Hunger on "Souper Bowl" Sunday

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students envelop basic plans, in small groups, for fundraising projects that they could actually organize and execute.
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Closer to the Ground

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students understand the idea of a nonprofit organization, the service donated by others, and how it helps a community. In this philanthropic lesson, students explore the types of nonprofits that would be beneficial to a school and what...
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Exporing Our Community

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore attributes of the community in which they live. They compare rural, urban and suburban communities and attempt to classify their own community. Each group illustrates their assigned area by drawing buildings, trees,...
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Community Table-Community Ties: The Drive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students consider the issues of hunger and homelessness. Students explore literature dealing with the topics and brainstorm ways they may be able to help others.
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Read 'n' Give-Planning Our Book Drive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a book drive. In this communities lesson, students brainstorm ways of collecting books for donation and design a book drive for children in the community.
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Philanthropy And Children Who Are Homeless Lesson 1: Traveling on the Orphan Train

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research how the Orphan Train was an example of philanthropy that was aimed at aiding homeless children. They determine how this philanthropic effort continues now by researching contemporary relief agencies. They participate in...
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Comparing Apples and Oranges

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand that many organizations in the community have needs. In this philanthropy lesson, students research pros and cons of a philanthropic organization. Students create a multimedia presentation to show why their...
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Marine Environmental Geology

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students take this course as an introduction to the aspects of marine geology and oceanography that affect the environment and marine resources. Topics include estuarine oceanography and sediments, eutrophication of coastal waters,...
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Alternative Energy Sources

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize that people have various opinions on the use of renewable energy.In this renewable energy lesson, students research to find the best uses of renewable energy. Students create an original design for a group...
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Doing the Right Thing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students consider the payoffs of doing the right thing. In this philanthropy lesson, students examine the virtue of courage in Jackie Robinson's life and in their own.
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What Is a Foundation?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of grants. In this philanthropy lesson, students meet a grant-writer and then collaborate to prepare a grant request.
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How do they care?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand that some famous people are generous donors to others. In this philanthropy lesson, students relate famous people to the charities they are involved with. Students evaluate why specific people are best for their...
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Classic Hero

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss hero tales. For this character education lesson, students identify heroes from the movie Star Wars and explain how the hero showed courage. Middle schoolers reflect upon their own definition of courage and...

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