Fourth Grade Curriculum Resources
Standard of Learning
4.6 The student will evaluate his/her role in identifying solutions to community health problems. Key concepts/skills include:
- personal responsibility for exhibiting healthy practices within the school and community setting;
- the benefits of volunteerism.
Understanding the Standard
The student will understand the benefits of volunteering and taking personal responsibility for exhibiting health practices within the school and community setting.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
The student will:
- define community. (the group to which you belong)
- describe responsibility. (a job or a duty)
- define volunteer. (someone who helps without expecting a reward)
- analyze the benefits of volunteering to help solve community health problems.
- identify how to model good health practices within the school and community setting.
Sample Lessons
The Benefits of Volunteering
Grade(s) K-12
This lesson shows students that the community is not only benefiting from their volunteering but that they are too.
http://www.g-nation.co.uk/Thebenefitsofvolunteering1.pdf
Free
Natural Disaster Recovery
Grade(s) K-12
This lesson teaches students about disaster relief and recovery organizations that work to help the victims of disasters all over the world.
http://lesson-plan-help.suite101.com/article.cfm/natural_disaster_recovery
Free
Volunteering
Grade(s) K-12
In this activity pupils are asked to consider what the beneficial outcomes might be when people voluntarily give their time, expertise or money.
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/supportpack/module.aspx
Free
"Volunteerism"
Grade(s) K-12
To get students to reflect on the power of volunteerism and gain some perspective on the immense impact volunteers make on our economy and society. Students will discuss what they contribute to their own school communities.
http://www.gng.org/pulse/Volunteerism_2A.pdf
Free
Instructional Resources
- 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth, by The Earthworks Group (Andrews and McMeel, 1990)
- Promoting Positive Values for School and Everyday Life, by David W. Wilson, Ph.D., and Ruth Ann Wilson, Mark Twain Media/Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc. 1997
- Good Ideas to Help Young People Develop Good Character, by Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics, 4640 Admiralty Way Suite 101, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6610 -http://www.charactercounts.org
Assessment Ideas
The student will:
- explain the benefits of volunteering.
- keep a log of the volunteer opportunities that they participated in either at home or in school (i.e., help another student, collect the mail, etc.).
- create a page following the theme: What can I do to protect my community and environment?
