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Pbs: This Emotional Life: Grief and Loss

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource on the human experience of grief, whether it is from losing a loved one, or from another type of loss. Explains the physical symptoms one feels, misconceptions about the grieving process, gives examples of different kinds of...
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Kids Health: Death and Grief

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Family Doctor.org gives information on the topic of death and grief.
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Helping After Neonatal Death

For Students 9th - 10th
H.A.N.D., a support group for those affected by neonatal death, offers information to parents, professionals, family, and friends.
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Pbs Teachers: Dealing With Death Discussion Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine experiences and thoughts about death, specifically about the death of a loved one, terminal illness and bereavement support groups. Explore poetry or songs about death and dying and discuss the writer's intent and students' own...
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Pbs Teachers: Understanding Different Views on Death

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine how people come to understand and deal with death in their own ways, and examine the importance of expressing emotions and values surrounding the issue. Analyze how death is portrayed in the media and popular culture.
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Pbs Teachers: Defining and Discussing Death

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Develop an awareness of the kinds of losses that one may experience as a human being and the different ways people deal with them. Discuss experiences with dying and the emotions involved, and participate in an imaginary scenario dealing...
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Pbs Teachers: A Death in the Family

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Created in association with the Masterpiece Theatre film version of "A Death in the Family," this teacher's guide provides materials for the study of the film or the book. Students will study the life and work of James Agee, determine...
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Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: My Love, Don't Cross That River: Lesson Plan: Facing Aging, Loss and Grief

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Jin Mo-young's film My Love, Don't Cross that River documents the final years of a South Korean couple, 89-year-old Kang Gye-Yeol and 98-year-old Jo Byeong-Man, who have been married for 76 years. The film, which follows the couple over...
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Kid Source on Line: Developmental Considerations Concerning Children's Grief

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a chart that explains children's perceptions of death and their responses at different ages in their development.
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Grief: Getting Over the Death of Someone Close to You

For Students 9th - 10th
Getting over the loss of someone close to you if a difficult process. This site provides resources for adolescents who have recently experienced such a loss and helps to lead them through this process in the healthiest manner possible.
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Pov Engage: Lesson Plan Addressing Trauma Using Affective and Cognitive Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this lesson, students will learn how trauma impacts the brain via streaming clips. Students will learn about how a family stays interconnected with the community to help its members deal with grief connected to their son's shooting.
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Love After Death

For Students 9th - 10th
Valuable articles and practical information on how grief affects our relationships.
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Kid Source on Line: The Grief of Children

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the grief process that children go through and their concept of death, plus helpful and not so helpful adult responses.
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Reach Out Usa: Communicating About Grief With Your Family and Friends

For Students 9th - 10th
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page offers suggestions for how to talk about a recent death with family and friends.
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Pbs Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: If Your Child Asks About Fred Rogers' Death

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
PBS provides helpful tips for parents and teachers in talking with children about Fred Rogers' death, and death in general.
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Beyond Indigo: Dealing With Grief and Loss

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers information on dying and aspects of death affecting surviving family members
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Dougy: How to Help a Grieving Teen

For Students 9th - 10th
There is no method for helping someone grieve that will always prove effective. This site does, however, offer tips for those who want to help a teen manage their grief in an emotionally supportive manner.
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Hospice Net

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to educating individuals how to help adolescents and children cope with difficult situations involving feelings of depression. These articles offer good advice for helping children in need.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Some Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem is about how one person deals with a loved one's death.
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Nancy Polette: "Missing May" Literature Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site features a literature guide for the book "Missing May," by Cynthia Rylant.
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Elisabeth Kubler Ross Foundation

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official site for Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004 CE), author of the groundbreaking "Death and Dying." Includes much information on her life, works, and related organizations.
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Kids Health: Somebody in My Friend's Family Died

For Students 3rd - 5th
Death is a very difficult thing to deal with for all of us. If you have a friend who has recently 0lost someone, you may be wondering how you can help. Chances are, that friend is not acting the way she/he normally does and you want to...
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Kids Health: La Muerte Y El Duelo

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains the grief process that people go through when there is a death of a loved one. It also shows how to cope with it and also contains links to similar sites.
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Tes: Book Review Poster: Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This TES poster shares a book review of a young adult novel, Ostrich Boys, a story written by Keith Gray. The topics of death and the bereavement process are issues handled in the novel.

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