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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Grief

For Students Pre-K - K
These resources help kids deal with grief. Remembering happy times by making a memory chain, and writing or drawing about their feelings are a few coping strategies to help comfort kids during difficult times.
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Curated OER

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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Amby Duncan-Carr

Amby: The Job Loss Grief Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you down in the dumps because you have lost your job? Explore the grief process and see how it relates to job loss.
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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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Kidsource OnLine

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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Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: 'Tis Good the Looking Back on Grief

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "'Tis Good--The Looking Back on Grief--", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Gary Bodwin and can access a printable version of this piece.
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PBS

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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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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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Grief by Anton Chekhov

For Students 7th - 8th
Read the full text of the short story "Grief" by Anton Chekhov.
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ReachOut USA

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

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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Kidsource OnLine

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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit: American Romanticism: Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne and his short story "The Minister's Black Veil." It features background information about Hawthorne and the short story, reading questions, the five stages of grief, a link to the text, and a...
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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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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: "Walk Two Moons" Study Guide

For Students 4th - 7th
Download the 40 page study guide for "Walk Two Moons" at this site. Share with your class this intricately plotted and wryly narrated novel with its subtle and moving portrayal of grief. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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9/11 Memorial & Museum

National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Lesson Plans for K 2

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A selection of lesson plans suitable for early elementary students about topics related to 9/11 and/or the memorial built in New York City. Some lessons cover dealing with grief or fear, others with thinking of ways to serve your community.
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Wbj Press: How to Help a Friend in Grief

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a list of helpful tips for individuals hoping to help a friend in mourning. Supportive comments and gestures are suggested in this excerpt to educate friends as to the most appropriate course of action.
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Able Media

Ctc: Gods, Grief and Freedom in Aeschylus' Oresteia

For Students 9th - 10th
Refers to the underlying theme of Greek tragedies as mere mortals worrying about their actions.
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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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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website from contains a chapter from "The Oxford Book of English Verse" that contains several poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poetry includes, "River-spirits," "A softer voice," "Bird-spirit," "Grief," "A Musical...
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Angel of Grief

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Angel of Grief", created by Auguste Clesinger in 1850 (Stone).
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Center for Young Women's Health: Coping With Loss: A Guide for Teens

For Students 9th - 10th
Losing someone close to you isn't easy. Anytime a familiar situation changes one must develop the ability to cope with what's been altered. This site looks at different types of loss and how to approach these difficult times. Additional...
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Grief of Andromache

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Grief of Andromache", created by Jacques-Louis David in 1782 (Black chalk, pen and ink with gray wash, 290 x 246 mm).

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