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Service learning Common Core CCRA.W.10 resources
Veterans Day Thank You Cards
A meaningful Veterans Day activity, these foldable thank you cards are an easy way for your students to get involved in honoring the men and women who served or are currently serving our country. Deliver cards to your local Veterans Center, or have students mail cards to loved ones in the military as a gesture of kindness.Looking for additional ways to make Veterans Day meaningful? Check out this resource: Veterans Day Activities: Branches of Military & MoreThank you! Michelle McDonald, B.A.
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Fall Service Learning Project (Food Drive-Walking Field Trip)
Connect Real-Life, Authentic Experiences to Academic Content with Service Learning Projects (SLP)In this SLP, students will go on a walking field trip to drop-off, and pick-up food bags from their neighbors' homes. Students will deliver the bags to a local food donation center, work with community volunteers to sort the goods, and then return to school to reflect on the experience. This SLP is intended for the Pre-K through 2nd grade classrooms. Use it as a culminating activity to your ‘Communit
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PreK - 2nd
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Privilege, Inequality, Social Justice Writing, Game & Community Service Project
Teach privilege, inequality, social justice and meritocracy through no prep mini-lesson, writing activities, card game analogy activity and discussion and bonus community service project. Students analyze how the saying, “play the hand your dealt” is an analogy for privilege and inequality. Pick and choose from 5+ activities for a one day lesson on privilege, inequality and social justice or a multi-day social justice unit or community service project.Product Includes (Printable & Digital):L
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Community Service for Teenagers
Community service for teenagers is the perfect opportunity to teach about civic responsibility as envisioned by the Founders as a cornerstone of constitutional democracy. This community service for teenagers project and scaffolded reflection essay provides middle and high school students the opportunity to be at the center of their own learning by putting theory to action: students will develop their own informed opinions on the role of citizens in a democracy through active civic engagement and
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8th - 10th
Senior Project: Research, Writing, and Service Learning
This multi-step, inquiry-based project, appropriate for both face-to-face or virtual distance learning, is based on a student-selected social issue, and is broken down into multiple, smaller projects building to the final project - an oral presentation on their chosen topic. Ideas for topics are included. Additionally, rubrics are provided for each individual project.The purpose of this Senior Project is to empower all seniors to identify an area of personal interest, and produce both physical a
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11th - 12th
Kids & Community: A Student Led Service Project (grades 6-8)
Students research and created a service project in their communities. This is an updated version of our free resource, created for middle school students.
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6th - 8th
Back to School Printable Morning Meeting Activities with Acts of Kindness Wheel
5 Activities for your Morning Meeting routine that promote a positive classroom community. Use this at the beginning of the year as part of your Back to School procedures or bring it up to help with classroom management.5 Activities includeActs of Kindness Wheel - Students spin the wheel to see what Acts of Kindness they can perform during the day.Acts of Kindness BINGO - students walk around the room to see who has completed different acts of kindnessSnowball Encouragement - Students writing e
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3rd - 6th
Random Acts of Kindness for Fast Finishers
These fast finisher activities are wonderful for upper elementary and work for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. As a 3rd grade teacher, I chose to make this, because I feel like character education is so important, and this is a great way to spend more time with character education, plus practice writing skills, and provide engaging activities for your fast finishers. Use these with my YouTube video Kindness-Character Education. They will make great character education and writing activities for your
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3rd
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A Long Walk to Water EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
Taught in the LA Classroom in 2021 - and with such a BEAUTIFUL book! These Google-Classroom™ Ready English Language Arts AFTER READING EXTENSION digital resources include individual and collaborative activities, critical thinking reflections, active student engagement, linked videos to watch when students are finished with the book, differentiated reflection poetry with group share activity, and a student-driven community service project with real-life applications. Detailed Teacher Notes includ
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6th - 8th
Also included in: A Long Walk to Water FULL NOVEL BUNDLE
GOTV Get Out The Vote Postcard Campaign Project! Full Bundle!
Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Project!In this Postcard Campaign Project, we create GOTV postcards! We create and splatter alcohol inks to paint 4x6 index cards, learn the legal guidelines for GOTV efforts, discuss the importance of our campaign, and send the cards to actual voters! The Project is very Flexible and Customizable: You can trim out any part of the project you wish, or simply offer it as an optional extension project students can do on their own or as an after school club activity! Th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Christmas Opinion Essay CCSS Grades 3-6 Print and Digital Learning
Be sure to look at the preview to see the holiday essay guide. Christmas is a time for sharing. This scaffolded essay is perfect for the holidays. "Imagine you've been given $50,000.00 to act as a philanthropist – someone who spends their money to help others. (Kind of like a “Santa.”) How would you choose to spend your money? Here's the catch. (There’s always a catch.) You can support only one $50,000.00 cause. Bummer. How will you decide what to do? Tough decision. Maybe writing an essay will
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3rd - 6th
Philanthropy Persuasive Opinion Essay CCSS Grades 4-7 Print and Teach
Be sure to look at the preview to see the philanthropy persuasive/opinion essay unit. This essay provides students with an important topic - philanthropy - and gives them the tools they need to work independently and successfully."Great news. You have been given $100,000.00. But you must act as a philanthropist – someone who spends money to help others. How would you spend the money? Here’s the catch. (There’s always a catch.) You can support only one $100,000.00 cause. Bummer. How will you deci
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4th - 7th
Service Cares Kindness Lesson Plan
We always stress to our students to get involved and serving in our community, but how can they do that if they do not give service to those people right around them? If they don’t serve their families,friends, and those in their classroom, there is a high chance they won’t serve complete strangers!
This lesson is necessary when you notice many of your students not getting along, when there is a feeling of frustration or contention that is persistent. Who doesn't feel better towards a person the
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3rd - 5th
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Winter Holiday Writing Prompts Countdown to Winter Break with Acts of Kindness
Use these letter writing prompts to help students reflect on acts of kindness and get suggestions as they count down to Winter Break. Includes Acts of Kindness activities - suggestions from the North Pole.Students can also write a letter to the North Pole sharing what they did that day and how it made them feel. This resource not only encourages kindness among your students but is a great writing exercise to help your students write each day on a different topic.What's Included in this Resource?
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2nd - 4th
Shout Outs for Fast Finishers-Primary and Intermediate
These Shout Outs for Fast Finishers are a much better alternative to all the typical things I've had kids do. I have a Random Acts of Kindness for Fast Finishers product. This is one of my student's favorite things to do when they complete their work. They don't even realize they're writing. Since it's so popular, I decided to make a leveled option, so this "shout out" activity was more accessible to every student. This will get your kids writing in their off time, plus it will add to any charac
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2nd - 5th
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Kids & Communityt: A Student Led Service Project
Students learn to develop their own service learning projects. The framework lets student work in groups to express voice and choice, while the youth leader acts as more of a facilitator. Great for first time projects.
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3rd - 6th
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