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Healing Art: Health and Illness
Students examine African artifacts relating to health and illness
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Conflict Resolution: Grades 3-5
Learners analyze concepts related to health promotion and conflict resolution. For this character education lesson, students answer discussion questions about resolving conflicts. Learners complete a conflict resolution activity using a...
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The Three Dimensions: Health, Wealth, and Wisdom
Students examine seven lifestyle factors. In this personal health lesson, students will examine healthy lifestyles and create a personal health, wealth, and wisdom calendar.
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Character and Citizenship Education
Students analyze the importance of being a socially healthy citizen. In this character education instructional activity, students brainstorm personal traits that they think make the world a better place. Students compile their ideas as a...
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Using Facebook with Literature
Students use online social networking to learn about characters in literature. For this literature and technology lesson, students visit Facebook website and set up character profiles for a piece of literature they've read.
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What Are Friends For?
Students develop an awareness of the behaviors signaling that a friend may be in trouble with alcohol or drugs of abuse. They practice ways to encourage a friend to seek out adult help by viewing a video, role-playing situations, writing...
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Back to School (Secondary)
Welcome your class back to school! They will participate in a character education lesson plan in order to build community at the school. First they identify needs of new students by putting themselves in their shoes and create welcome...
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How We Feel
Students examine how their feelings make them unique. They read and discuss a poem, develop a list of feelings, and create a drawing of them feeling happy and healthy.
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Courage in the Movies
Students examine the decisions and behaviors of movie characters to encourage awareness of their own ethical decision making. In this character education lesson, students discuss integrity and watch one of the listed movies to focus on...
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Remembering Veterans
Learners discuss the importance of remembrance and memorials. Students explore different war and memorials throughout the world. They examine the purpose of Remembrance/Memorial Day. They examine how emotions can be expressed through...
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Activity Plan 5-6: All About You And Me
Students explore their unique qualities as they create "me" puppets. In this early childhood instructional activity, students play a category game, discuss uniqueness, and create their very own "me" puppets.
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Empathy
Students complete activities to develop empathy. In this empathy lesson plan, students complete discussion activities and all the related worksheets in order to build their understanding of the concepts to empathy. Students identify a...
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When People Steal From Me
Learners identify the effects of theft to learn that stealing is wrong. In this stealing lesson, students discuss what it feels like to have something stolen. Learners make a list of their six favorite things and list why they are...
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Brush Up On Respect
Students define respectful behavior and complete related activities. In this respectful behavior lesson, students use toothpaste to illustrate the cleansing power of speaking good words and having good manners. Students discuss rudeness...
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My Life 24-7 Video
Students utilize the short film genre to illustrate ethical themes and identify good character. In this ethics and technology lesson, students discuss their favorite viral videos and select an ethically themed topic to create their own...
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Back to School (Elementary)
Students discover the vocabulary of the Six Pillars of Character and their relation to the school environment. In this character education lesson plan, students discuss the character pillars and brainstorm about their use in the...
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Pumpkin Fallacies
Students complete circumference activities using a pumpkin and explore treating people fairly in regards to their physical characteristics. In this math and character lesson, students view images of pumpkins and describe them. Students...
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Valentine's Day
Students participate in a gardening activity to learn about the growth process and how to show care. In this garden care instructional activity, students discuss Valentine's Day poems for words of kindness. Students read a poem about a...
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Media Coverage
Young scholars research news coverage to examine how a local issue does not receive fair attention in the news. In this new coverage lesson, students discuss where they get their information and why some issues are ignored. Young...
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Financial Plans
Students create an economic system based on responsibility and caring. In this economics and character lesson, students receive Character Currency and practice using the money for a good cause. Students brainstorm charities they would...
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Student-Led Parent Conference
Students prepare for student-led parent conferences. In this communication lesson, students collect data to build portfolios for use during parent conferences. Students practice their presentations in preparation for the actual conferences.
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My Life 24-7
Analyze the "My Life 24-7" project as a part of community involvement. Students discuss the pros and cons of being community involved. They will also write a proposal to increase community involvement and submit a blog entry about the...
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Growing in Communities, Kids on the Grow
Students participate in an after school program that promotes concern for others, recognizing differences, accepting differences, leadership roles, mentoring, self-responsibility and personal safety. They explore the diversity of their...
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Grow Your Character Bookmarks
Students make bookmarks out of seed paper to study the growth of seeds and complete an activity for the Six Pillars of Character. In this science and character lesson plan, students describe the stages of growth of plants and determine...