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Helpfulness / First Aid

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students stimulate thought about equipping ourselves to be ready for life's challenges. They recognize the needs and concerns of others and reconsider existing views. They evaluate consideration for others' religious teaching and...
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The Party: Friend or Enemy of Democracy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students recognize and appreciate the paradox between an MP being able to vote according to the wishes of their constituents and / or their conscience versus voting according to party line. The class conducts a simulated vote.
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Special Interests: How Would A Legislator Vote?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils act as elected officials who must make decisions that will make someone unhappy. They consider five bills that are up for vote in light of the contributions that many special-interest groups made to their campaigns. Students...
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Self Esteem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students consider the innate goodness of all people and the role self esteem plays in making decisions. They participate in a group role play about drug use and self esteem and answer discussion questions about the characters.
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Theatre Lesson Plan- Tableau (part 2)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore tableaux.  In this social studies and fine arts cross curriculum instructional activity, students work in groups of four to create "frozen" stage pictures (tableaux) representing vocabulary and concepts from a "From Farm...
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King Midas Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students perform Reader's Theater of the story of King Midas as they investigate how greed effects people. They look at a contemporary famous person who gave into greed what the effect was. They chose a creative activity from a list...
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Discernment- Choosing The Best

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of truth and how it is to be used in life. The lesson includes a story that illustrates the kind of life one should live. The story has a light and dark side to it. Then students role play an interview...
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Honesty

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm what it means to be honest and responsible. In groups, they share experiences from their own lives when they knew something was happening that was wrong. To end the lesson, they participate in a variety of role...
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Respect

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students brainstorm what they believe having respect for someone else means. Individually, they share their own experiences about a time they felt respected and a time they did not. To end the instructional activity, they participate...
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Appreciateion of Other's Religions and Cultures

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils brainstorm a list of items to be gathered by knowing about someone else's culture and religion. As a class, they share something related to their culture and discuss. To end the lesson, they participate in a role-playing activity.
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Actively Organizing Passive Resistance

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars explore organizing to resist oppressive authority without the use of violence.  In this philosophy lesson, students research Gandhi's approach to organizing people around a positive cause without the need to be aggressive...
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Decision -Making by Parliamentarians: Issues and Decision-Making

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students, using what they know about what influences a representative's decision-making, solve current issues/problems provided by the teacher.
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Paul Robeson: The Renaissance Man

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the life of athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist, Paul Robeson. They answer the question, "Which was most important to American culture -Robeson's work as a scholar, a performer, an...
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Acting With Honesty

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners analyze stories to study the value of honesty. Songs and role playing are included in this instructional activity of character education. Activities include: brainstorming situations that would be easy to be dishonest, drawing...
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Satyagraha: The Soul Force of Nonvilence

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discuss what satyagraha is understanding that it is the driving force which enables social reform. In this social science lesson plan, students try to internalize the principles of nonviolence on an individual level and then a...

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