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Looking into Careers: Doing What I Like and Liking What I Do
Students explore careers. For this service learning lesson, students consider the value of job satisfaction and explore non-traditional jobs related to animal welfare.
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Kids Helping Kids
Students experience reading in a multi-age learning community. In this partner reading lesson, students plan and implement a "Reading Buddy" program. Students practice oral reading, select sight vocabulary to "teach" the younger student,...
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Money Smart Choices
High schoolers make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal...
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Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the Globe
Students discuss hunger around the world and come up with a service project. In this global hunger lesson plan, students define vocabulary words and discuss service projects. Students derive a plan, carry it out, and reflect on the...
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Running a Student Cooperative
Middle schoolers form a classroom cooperative. In this service learning lesson, students explore how to form and run a cooperative and decide as a class how to implement their cooperative plan. Middle schoolers use funds raised from the...
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What Can We Do to Help Others?
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students select local nonprofit organizations that may benefit from their service. Students welcome a spokesperson from a local organization speaking about...
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Living History Video Project
Fifth graders videotape an interview with a community member. In this service learning project, 5th graders are matched with a resident at a local retirement center. The students spend time corresponding with this person and ultimately...
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Use Your Melon
Young scholars explore bicycle safety. In this service learning lesson, students build a bicycle safety course to be used by children in their community.
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Sharing What is Ours
Students explore the concept of stewardship. In this service learning lesson, students discuss sharing and good manners. Students create sharing posters and learn a manners song.
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Funds for Fun and Safety
Students discuss helmet safety. In this service learning activity, students investigate the importance of bike helmets and compose a friendly letter in order to plan a fund-raising bake sale to purchase helmets for those in need.
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I'm in a Tizzy! How Can I Help?
Students examine acts of kindness. In this service learning lesson plan, students read Miss Tizzy and uncover the good deeds that take place in the story. Students participate in activities that enable them to reflect on the lesson plan.
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Helping Countries in Turmoil
Students discover the struggles of emerging democracies. In this service learning lesson, students research a non-profit agency that is assisting the people of an emerging democracy and create and advertisement.
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Helping Countries in Turmoil
Students create an advertisement that promotes a nonprofit. In this service learning lesson, students research emerging democracies and brainstorm ways to help local nonprofit organizations.
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Roll the Tape! Roll the Tape!
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students use iMovie to create a video highlighting their middle school in order to share with incoming students.
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Ornaments for Nursing Home Tree
Students participate in an activity that will allow them to create a gift for a nursing home patient and give their gift to someone who needs a caring hand. In this community service lesson, students learn compassion, and also understand...
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Writing Pattern Books
Have your older students assist young children with writing in this community service and literacy lesson. Middle schoolers become partners with a local elementary school. They assist the grade school children in writing a pattern book...
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Old Stone House Lesson Plan
From stagecoach to railroad tracks, your class will discover how advancements in travel in the United States during the nineteenth century played an integral role in the industrialization and development of American society. The main...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Putting on Armor
Peers can exert tremendous pressure that can lead to positive and negative consequences. To conclude the Risky Business unit, class members create a Personal Safety Plan. They list things or situations that cause stress, things they have...
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Wise Pockets
Using children's picture books and role-playing activities, youngsters begin to learn about personal finance management. These lesson plans are engaging and intend to endow pupils with skills for making wise decisions with money as they...
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Piecing Together the Puzzle
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning instructional activity, students reflect upon the instructional activity that everyone contributes to make a better world as they plan and execute a tikkun olam...
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Holiday Help for U.S. Sevicemen Overseas
Learners research what is possible locally and online to provide support for U.S. troops overseas during the holidays. Students also discuss what they would need to do to collect money or other items or launch a writing project.
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UN's Millennium Goals
Whose responsibility is it to improve schools in developing countries? How does quality education affect my neighborhood? Questions of responsibility, whether global or local, form the heart of this lesson. Using the UN’s Millennium...
Creative Visions Foundation
Video Interpretations of the UDHR
How can people better understand their rights? Scholars explore the question with the second of four installments in the Introduction to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights lesson plan series. Learners watch and write descriptions...
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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Conflict Resolution Strategies
Respond rather than react—that's the big idea behind a lesson on conflict resolution strategies. A richly detailed plan teaches high schoolers strategies for resolving conflicts. Pupils play charades, engage in verbal and non-verbal...