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Lesson 2:

How Can YOU Make a Difference With Your 3Ts?

Learning Targets

Students will analyze how to use their 3Ts to help nonprofit organizations, choose organizations to support, and identify the purpose of those organizations' efforts.
Duration 20–30 MINS
Downloads Lesson Plan, Presentation & How Can YOU Make a Difference - Student Worksheet
Materials Student Worksheet, Electronic Devices (one per group of 3), Presentation Slides

Downloadable Materials

Lesson Plan: How Can YOU Make a Difference with Your 3Ts?

Lesson Plan: How Can YOU Make a Difference with Your 3Ts?

Empathy-driven lesson where students explore helping someone in need using their 3Ts through a picture prompt and pair-share. Students define nonprofit organizations, then research one of six assigned categories (Kids, Animals, Medical, Environmental, Food, Housing) and identify how their 3Ts could support the cause.

Presentation: How Can YOU Make a Difference with Your 3Ts?

Presentation: How Can YOU Make a Difference with Your 3Ts?

Guides students through giving their 3Ts to those in need. Features picture prompt, definitions of nonprofits and local resources (shelters, food banks, clothing donations), and research activity across six cause categories. Closes with a reflection on personal giving.

Activity: How Can YOU Make a Difference? - Student Worksheet

Activity: How Can YOU Make a Difference? - Student Worksheet

Research worksheet where students respond to a warm-up about donating 3Ts, define a nonprofit organization, then record key information about an assigned nonprofit: organization name, who they serve, mission statement, need addressed, and how they meet it.

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