Ms. Henning's Class: Philanthropy Project Based Learning Unit

The fifth grade has been working on creating dynamic Project Based Learning units this year, which each teacher will share with the other 5th grade classes during our Social Studies and Science rotations.

The unit that I have been working on with the students in on Philanthropy.

Overview:

Groups of students will find a charity that they want to help, present to the class and try to persuade the class to choose their charity as the charity their whole fifth grade class will be supporting through raising money, volunteering their time, and making donations.

Our Driving Question and What a Philanthropist Is

Our Need To Knows

Different Types of Charities

Once the class has selected a charity in which to support, they will figure out ways in which they want to help that charity. Students will then be grouped together based on similar interest then they will develop a project proposal for their group. The groups must clear their proposal with me before they begin working.

Students will have roughly one month to complete their philanthropic efforts. During the course of that month, they will blog about the progress they have made and post their blog assignments on the Schoology site for their class.

Example of Blog Post Assignment on Schoology

After they have finished their philanthropic efforts, they will return together as a class to develop a presentation to showcase the headway they have made and the many different ways their class has been a philanthropist.