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Achieving Belonging for All
Learners explore ways of belonging. In this social science lesson, students discover non-violent ways for belonging similar to Mohandas Gandhi.
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Confidence
Students explore communication and confidence issues. For this communication and confidence lesson, students discuss fear, stage fright, phobia's in relation to the planks of confidence. Students view a related film. Students explore...
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Feelings about Current Events
Students explore feelings about negative events. In this health and social studies instructional activity, students discuss and write about personal feelings about events that have had an impact on their life, such as hurricanes,...
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Giving Advice
In this peer advice worksheet, students choose a problem card and their peers give advice using the pattern provided on the worksheet.
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Mystery World
For this personal decision making worksheet, students read 8 controversial statements. Students rate each according to how believable they think they are-- from 1 ("are you mad?!") to 5 ("of course it is possible"). Example: Some people...
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It's on the Cards!
In this idioms instructional activity, students, with a partner complete a variety of activities associated with idioms about cards and their many meanings in life.
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Missing
For this missing worksheet, students, with a partner, complete a variety of activities associated with terms and phrases having to do with the term missing.
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Do You Have a GSOH?
In this humor worksheet, students, with a partner, read and discuss thirteen questions associated with having a good sense of humor and making fun of others.
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Animals and Animosity
In this pet responsibility learning exercise, students examine, discuss, and complete a variety of different activities associated with people's responsibility regarding their pets. Students access a website to gather responses to a...
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All Change!
In this language arts instructional activity, students examine, discuss, and complete a variety of different activities associated with the word "change." Students consider the meaning of many phrases that contain the word "change," such...
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Communication--Conversation
In this communication and conversation worksheet, students web out the skills they think people need to have to be able to have successful conversations.
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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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COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE
Students explore the feeling of having self confidence in a world that attempts to take it from you daily. They brainstorm and discuss the quote "Courage begets strength by struggle with hardships: Develop the courage to act accordingly...
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INTEGRITY
Students explore the concept of acting with integrity and fairness and about the consequences of our actions including moral issues and attitudes. They inquire how to look beyond surface impressions and prejudice in oneself and others....
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Are School Trips Too Risky?
Young scholars analyze and chart what risks are involved on school field trips. Students devise a study trip to take and dissect at the end of their findings. Young scholars scale the conditions of what a risk is and we can manage them...
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Boys' Attitudes To Work
Students examine the notion of what are students' images of manliness. Students test what represents success for students through a survey. Students ponder the issue can doing school work help you be manly.
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Challenging Yourself
Students design a one-day challenge, try to do it, and then write about it. It could be giving up sweets, going for a three-mile run or being nicer to a sibling. They compose a writing piece describing their experience from taking on...
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Effective Parent/Student/Teacher Communication
Sixth graders engage in a lesson which address the concerns and issues around new 6th grade students arriving at middle school. They, parents and teachers use this strategy to effectuate good communication.
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Looking at the World Through Different Eyes
Young scholars engage in a lesson which uses metaphor to depict an incident that evokes the destruction of 9/11. They realize that even terrible situations can be seen through a different point of view.
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Building Strength Through Knowledge
Students identify and confront fear in a positive manner. They critically analyze media information and build skills to enhance resiliency.
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The Politics of Water
Students investigate the Governor's Kansas Water Initiative. Students study rivers, cities and reservoirs and how their location effects the importance of their water quality issues.
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CHARTING A COURSE
Students model how a gyroscope works with string, an old phonograph record and crayon.
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Archaeological "Dig"
Students examine a mummy covered in volcanic ash and deduce facts about the mummy. They deduce how archaeologists are able to learn so much from the remains of those from earlier civilizations.
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Students complete a population pyramid for a city they are studying. They may complete a population pyramid for their city and another one for the country in which the city is located. They compare and contrast the results of the two...