April Moments of Service
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SIGNATURE EVENT: National Volunteer Week (April 15-21)
A time to celebrate people doing extraordinary things through service. Focus student attention on the importance of volunteers and end the week with volunteering for Earth Day.
Earth Day (April 22)
Encourage environmental stewardship (preserving, conserving, repairing, and enhancing the environment) through awareness, problem identification, problem solving, and team building, focused around an environmental service project.
See the April Moments of Service Toolkit for service project ideas and resources.
generationOn Lessons & Resources
An Early Childhood Service-Learning Curriculum for the Environment and Earth Day (PDF)
This guide will lead you through how to plan and manage a service-learning project with your students in Nursery School, Pre-K, and Kindergarten. The projects in this guide were developed by generationOn and by the teachers at the Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House. They have been tested by children there and in other classrooms in local communities. Each project is a lot of fun and provides ample opportunities for service-learning!
Kids Care Clubs develop compassion and the spirit of service in elementary and middle school children. Service projects and resources are posted monthly on the site. Registration is free.
The project for April is “Earth Day -- Everyday.” Since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated to educate people about the problems our planet is facing. Kids Care Clubs Earth Day – Everyday! contains many projects and resources that will teach you how to promote and create a more ecologically and environmentally friendly community.
To register as a club go to the Home page http://www.kidscare.org/ and click on Register Now. Any questions, call toll free 1-866-269-0510.
Learning to Give Lessons
A single class-period lesson that focuses on making a difference in the community.
- Air Pollution and Asthma (11th Grade)
- Civic Environmentalist: Rachel Carson (12th Grade)
- Climate Change Challenge (12th Grade)
- Dreaming of Gardens (5th Grade)
- Earth Day for a Small World (2nd Grade)
- Flowers and a Beautiful World (1st Grade)
- Great Debate (The)--Do Americans Today Have
Civic Virtue? (10th Grade) - Johnny Be Good (1st Grade)
- Litter and Environmental Stewardship (8th Grade)
- Looking at Our Community (11th Grade)
- Making the World a More Beautiful Place (Kindergarten)
- Mother Earth Connections (3rd)
- Our Class, Our Earth (Kindergarten)
- Out on a Limb (6th Grade)
- Pick Up a Litter Bit (7th Grade)
- Pollution Is Not a Solution (5th Grade)
- Pollution Solutions (8th Grade)
- Responsible Energy Use (10th Grade)
- Stewardship and the Rain Forest (4th Grade)
- Talking Trees (2nd Grade)
- The Joy of a Garden (3rd Grade)
- Three Rs of Environmental Stewardship:
Earth Day (4th) - Water--Where Has It Gone? (6th Grade)
- Who Will Care for the Water? (7th Grade)
- Whose Responsibility Is It? (9th Grade)
- Why Eat Organic? (9th Grade)
Learning to Give Units
Multi-lesson service-learning units, correlated to state and national Common Core standards, to teach the importance of civic engagement for the common good.
Grades K-2
- Earth Keepers
- Environment: Sustaining Our World (K-2)
- Go, Johnny, Go!
- Growing Our Future
- Helping Others to Feed Themselves
- Pet Care and Safety
- Philanthropy in Bloom
- Watch Me Grow
Grades 3-5
- Animal Shelters
- Building a Mini-Park and Bird Sanctuary
- Cool Kids Compost
- Each One, Teach One
- Earth Connections
- Environment: Sustaining Our World (3-5)
- Keeping Our Pets Safe in an Emergency
- My Water, Your Water, Our Water
- Philanthropy in History
- Philanthropy—A Day at the Beach
- Real Heroes
- Rivers for the Common Good
- Roosevelt's Tree Army
- Sharing Our World
- This I Can Do!
- Working Animals
Grades 6-8
- Animals in Sports and Entertainment
- Are You a River Keeper?
- Around the World
- Environment: Sustaining Our World (6-8)
- Humane Heroes: Those Who Care Enough
- Make the Connection! Core Democratic Values and Philanthropy
- Role of Philanthropy in an Ever Changing World (The)
- Save a Drop For Me
- This Land Is Our Land - Flourish or Perish?
- Truth, Trash and Treasure
- Tulipmania – Growing Flowers to Share
- Water Resources and the Role of the Independent Sector
Grades 9-12
- Advocacy-Getting the Job Done
- Careers: Living and Working with Animals
- Concepts of Leadership
- Dear Philanthropist
- Environment: Sustaining Our World (9-12)
- Environmental Groups and the Three Economic Sectors
- For the Well-Being of Our Citizens
- Philanthropy at Home and Abroad
- Philanthropy, Volunteering and Service: The Historical Connections
- Sports Legends and Philanthropy—Jackie Robinson, Arthur Ashe, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Using the Carter Center as an Example of Philanthropy Today—Local and Global Volunteerism
Quotations
View quotations about environmental stewardship.
Profiles in Philanthropy
Informational Papers related to concepts of civil society and service
- Animal Ethics
- Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
- Biodiversity
- Civic Environmentalism
- Conservation International Foundation
- Environmentalism
- Keep America Beautiful
- Natural Resources
- Youth Philanthropy
School Year Calendar
generationOn and Learning to Give are excited to offer a menu of resources to help you implement service-learning and philanthropy education into your school! View the generationOn School Year Calendar to discover more service opportunities.
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