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Beanbag Toss
Students explore physical education by participating in a class game. In this bean bag toss lesson, students utilize masking tape to create targets which they launch bean bags into from far away. Students collaborate in groups to compete...
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Clean Up Time
Students explore organization by participating in a cleaning activity. In this classroom rules instructional activity, students identify their responsibility to clean up messes they have made and define the consequences should they not...
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I Am...
In this personality activity, students complete 14 fill in the blank questions regarding personal reflection. Students analyze their answers in order to gain an understanding of who they are.
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Classroom Jobs
Students explore responsibility by participating in class exercises. In this classroom community lesson, students utilize flash cards which assign one of six jobs to every student in the class. Students perform their class...
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Native American Ceremonies
Second graders explore cultural rituals by researching Native American people. In this Native American ceremony lesson, 2nd graders read the story Indian Festivals by Keith Brand and identify the naturalistic attitude of the Native...
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The Segregated Pencil Sharpeners
Learners explore racism through pencil sharpeners. In this civil rights lesson, students utilize a pencil sharpener with one of two colored pencils and explain how some people were not allowed to use certain items because of the color...
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What Can I Do?
Students identify ways of handling a conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students identify things that make a person feel sad and ways to help people feel better. Students write a story about a situation when they felt sad and...
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All About Me Glyph
In this all about me instructional activity, students practice following the instructions to filling in a glyph with a variety of colors to create an all about me glyph.
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RESILENCE-"WINNIE THE POOH AND CHRISTMAS TOO"
First graders view a clip of Pooh and his friends encountering obstacles like losing their letter to Santa. They disucss the problem and ask students to predict what happen next, and they briefly summarize the story line.