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Kelly Bear: Teaching Children Refusal Skills
Children who are taught refusal skills are more likely to make positive choices and refrain from engaging in high-risk behaviors. This site lists various learning exercises to practice refusal skills in your classroom.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Why I Refuse to Say I "Fight" My Disability
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
One glance and students know that the new girl at Mica High School is not your ordinary high school student. Stargirl Caraway is a free spirit. She has a pet rat named Cinnamon, plays the ukulele in the cafeteria, and refuses to wear the...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years because of Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Saying No to Alcohol and Other Drugs
Discuss negative peer pressure and learn about the harmful ways that drugs and alcohol can affect your body and mind. This website provides several discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas through which you can talk and...
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Cooperative Communcation Skills: Emergency Kit [Pdf]
This site is provided for by Cooperative Communication Skills. Seven suggestions for resolving or refusing conflict before it gets out of hand. SL.9-10.1c Active Participation. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1, SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Saying No
A collection of strategies and activities to teach students good refusal skills and skills for standing up to peer pressure when it comes to drug and alcohol use.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Bright Is Your Glow Stick? Measure It!
Objects that glow in the dark hold a special place in the imagination of both children and adults. The lights go out at night, but these odd things refuse to disappear. Where does the light come from? Do they work in any climate? In this...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Understanding Character: The Life of Percy Julian
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations of Percy Julian's struggles with racism and how he refused to let it limit his possibilities in life.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin" by Margot Adler
Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Alabama. A famous bus boycott followed because of her act of protest. However, Parks was not the first person to refuse to give up her seat. In...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Drafting the Constitution
Essay covers from the Articles of Confederation and the problems of disunity of the new states after the Revolutionary War, internally as well as externally, to the Constitutional Convention, an attempt to address the Articles' problems....
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Bartleby the Scrivener, a Story of Wall Street" by H. Melville
This is the full text of the short story "Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street" by Herman Melville. A successful lawyer on Wall Street hires Bartleby, a scrivener, to relieve the load of work experienced by his law firm. For...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The American Red Squirrel an Outdoor Inquiry Lesson
For this activity, pupils are presented with red pine cones that have been partly eaten by the American Red Squirrel, a fact that is not divulged to them at this stage. After a discussion of the possibilities, the class takes a walk in...
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