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Learning to give: freedom songs

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn freedom songs and discuss how the famous leaders of the Civil Rights Movement used them to motivate people to overcome adversity during this time. In this freedom songs lesson, students learn the songs and discuss their...
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Dear Young Philanthropist

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the lives of philanthropists from history and role-play as them. They write letters to students explaining their motivations for helping others. They prepare visual presentations of their chosen philanthropists.
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Volunteers in the Community

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss volunteerism and identify volunteer positions in their community. They choose and carry out a volunteer project in the school or local community.
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Bridges for All Lesson 1: Fighting Chance (1850-1877)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study how a Quaker woman, Laura Smith Haviland, served as a lifeline for fugitive and freedmen during the American Civil War era. They research other philanthropic organizations and the associate vocabulary of this era.
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Tell Me a Story -- Consequences

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify different feelings. They develop a list of the types of consequences they face when doing a certain task. They discuss what they gained from the different events.
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Animal Shelters - Sharing Our Knowledge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students arrange a service project for a local animal shelter. In this animal shelter lesson, students collect items to be given to a local shelter. They learn how to estimate the monetary value of the donated items. They can do optional...
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Heathly Foods Makes Heathly Body

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and identify foods on the food pyramid. They catergorize food and place them on the correct level. They discover why they should eat foods in moderation.
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line style....
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Teaching Elementary Social Studies: Lesson Presentations

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students demonstrate the cumulative knowledge while practicing the skills of lesson plan delivery for Elementary Social Studies. They set up for the lesson plan and then teach it to professional peers. They are assessed by the professor...
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Character Education: Integrity

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders write about a quote given to them to reflect on the concept of integrity. In this integrity lesson plan, 8th graders connect personal experiences to the concept of integrity and write about it.
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Trivia Time

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners participate in a trivia game and follow directions during a down time.
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Does It Look All Right to Me?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners identify different viewpoints in society. They describe the characteristics of some of the individuals involved in the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. They listen to a historical narrative and identify issues of...
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Good Will - Three Chinese Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to The Seven Chinese Brothers and identify tall tale elements in it. They brainstorm ways they could help each other in school. They create a banner reflecting the style and art of Chinese decorations and clothing in the...
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Different! Diverse! Dynamic! Lesson 1: Late Bloomers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine how people grow and mature at different rates. They create a graph and a timeline to organize the data they collect.
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What Are Our Talents?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars describe how a talent can be used to help others. They read a story about a Native American boy who shares his talent with others. They illustrate their special talent and shares them with the group.
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Sojourner Truth, African American Woman of the 19th Century

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils examine Sojourner Truth's philanthropist acts during her life. They discover that everyone has the right to be heard by their government. They compare and contrast the woman's movement and the anti-slavery movement.
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Compassion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss respect, responsibility, and honesty, and participate in a project that reaches beyond the classroom.
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LESSON 4: Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like (K-2)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students show competency in Art objectives by designing and creating props (glasses-looks, ears-headband, and [feel] texture board) for each of the given senses.
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LESSON 3: The Many Shades of Our World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize that people have many different types of skin color.
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Tree Friends

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are introduced to tree structure and use. They identify their special tree using all senses except sight. Students identify six different internal parts within a cross section of tree trunk (bark, phloem, xylem, cambium,...
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What is a Community?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the characteristics of their community. In this communities lesson, students read Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story and discuss how the community came together to solve a problem. Students identify services within...
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Water Resources and the Role of the Independent Sector

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore how water conservation is influenced by the four sectors of economy. In this social studies economics lesson, students brainstorm problems and solutions related to water conservation. Collages are created to represent...
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Celebration of Living History

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a living history book about themselves and read it to a senior friend. In this living history lesson plan, students complete a project about the living history of their lives by filling out venn diagrams and sharing it...
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Showtime! Profit or Non

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students perform a production. In this job lesson, students perform the production they created about jobs in the profit and nonprofit sectors. Students write an essay describing the advantages and disadvantages of working in these sectors.

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