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Writing a Grant
Students explore grant writing. In this grant writing lesson, students brainstorm possible community service projects. Students complete a grant proposal form.
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Look into Your Future
Students take a examine Community Helpers and the jobs they perform in order to help students explain the responsibilities the job entails. They recognize the community helpers, describe the jobs each performs and how technology is used.
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Service Learning Project
Students plan a service project to contribute to their community and then reflect on their experience. In this service project lesson, students help in a food pantry or donation center in their community. Students then write statements...
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Cans Make a Difference
Learners design a service-learning project with pen pals. In this philanthropy lesson, students research various charitable organizations with a pen pal and collect cans in order to get money for a donation. Learners write to their pen...
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Helping Others
Learners explore community service. In this character development and community instructional activity, students sing a song based on the fable The Lion and the Mouse. Learners participate in a discussion about kindness, and generate...
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Pee Wee Scouts
Students read books to discover the importance of friendship, teamwork, and community service. After reading the book, they discuss conflict resolution strategies. Students discuss healthy eating food pyramids. They write an essay...
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Teamwork and Leadership
Students complete activities as an analysis of leadership, teamwork, and community service. For this teamwork and leadership lesson, students discuss teamwork and read an example of it. Students participate in a teamwork building...
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Working Animals
Pupils examine the need for the humane treatment of animals. In this animal welfare lesson, students realize the need for animal welfare, and decide on a service project that will promote it. The lesson culminates in the creation of a...
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Service Learning
Students explore the value in helping others. In this ethics lesson, students use videos, worksheets, Internet articles and group discussion to develop a personal perspective on what it means to help others.
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Community Table-Community Ties: The Drive
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. For 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...
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Home Away from Home
Second graders listen to stories about homeless people. In this public service lesson, 2nd graders recognize the problems of being homeless and the importance of community activities. Students listen to Fly Away Home and create home...
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Digital Video Interviews
Students explore the jobs in their community. In this career education instructional activity, students interview a community member about his or her job in the community. Students video the interview.
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The Kindness Company
Middle schoolers organize themselves into a simulated company complete with applications, interviews and training. They identify a community need they can fulfill related to cooking or sewing and work to make and deliver the designated...
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Color Your Community
Eighth graders identify the self as an individual and as a member of a diverse local and global community. They recognize roles and responsibilities of being a family, school, or community member and the interrelationship of roles and...
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Reflect & Celebrate
Learners complete activities to learn about service learning. For this community service lesson, students answer reflection questions about community service. Learners create thank you cards and letters to sponsors, government officials,...
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I've Been Working in the Neighborhood
Students explore community helpers. In this social studies lesson, students research a variety of community helpers. Students choose a community helper and explain why they would want to spend a day helping that worker.
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Resources and Trade Flow
Students plan for a service project. In this service lesson, students determine the materials they will need to complete their service project. Students discuss possible trade flows into the United States.
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Topic Books: People Who Help Us
In this ESL community helpers learning exercise, students assemble the booklet and read about 7 community helpers. Students then respond to 9 true or false questions and 4 matching questions regarding the information they read.
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Rain Garden
High schoolers build rain gardens. In this community service lesson, students study the effectiveness of rain gardens in allowing water to run off. High schoolers build a community rain garden at their school.
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Why Are People Hungry?
Pupils discuss why many people don't have a balanced diet with nutritious food in order to not be hungry. In this hungry lesson plan, students learn what it means to eat healthy and start a service project for their community to help...
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Introduction to Community Helpers
Students discover philosophy by viewing a PowerPoint presentation. For this community helper lesson, students identify the jobs and careers around the city which help to benefit residents and children who live in the area. Students view...
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Civil Rights: The Five Freedoms
After a close reading of the First Amendment and the five freedoms it guarantees, class members examine the civil rights timeline to see how civil rights groups applied these freedoms to create change. Using the issue the class chose in...
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Using Connecting Themes in First Grade Social Studies
Foster contributing members of society with a social studies unit focused on five aspects of community. First graders discuss themes of culture, groups, location, scarcity, and change with discussion questions and activities about...
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Two Moments in the Life of Rick Rescorla: Vietnam and 9/11
He saved a group of men under fire from the Viet Cong, and he urged those fleeing the burning Trade Center Towers on 9/11 to "be calm, be strong." Rick Rescorla was last seen going back into the twin towers to bring others to safety....