Children's Miracle Network

Grade Level: 1st
Content: Supporting children with cancer
Service Need: Raising money for children with cancer at Children's Miracle Network Hospital
Service Idea: Have students earn money at home to give as a donation to this cause. Each first grade class will also create an activity book and cards to send to children who are in the hospital currently.
Preparation: Discuss with the students the importance of them earning the money on their own, prior to beginning the project. Either a guest speaker from CMN will come in and speak to the students about her personal experience with cancer or a video of her will be shown to help the students understand what they are raising the money for.
Action: Students will be provided with some type of container to take home and put their earnings in. The students will also have to record in a log what they did to earn this money. At the end of each week, each first grade class will dump their total earnings into an even bigger jar to be passed around to the entire grade level. Each first grade class will take time to create activity pages for the book and later the pages will all be put together to form several activity books to send to the hospital.
Reflection: Students will reflect after the project on what they learned about the importance of earning money and donating money to others who may need it more than they do.
Demonstration: Set goals for the students to try and reach by the end of each week.
Curriculum Connections:
English/ Language Arts: Letter writing to the children in the hospitals
Social Studies/history: History of cancer ( how long has it been around, will it ever be cured)
Mathematics: Earning, counting, and saving money
Science: Topic of Cancer ( how it develops and forms, how to treat cancer)
Skill Development: Organization, Responsibility
Community Contacts: Child with cancer who is a part of Children's Miracle Network