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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dinosaur Train sparks children's interest in life science and natural history. As they explore a variety of animals, children develop the inquiry skills and knowledge needed to help them think, talk and act like paleontologists. Choose...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Learning

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learning does not take place only in the classroom. Learning occurs naturally, every day! This KET collection uses original animation and wonderful, visual images to introduce basic concepts of math, science, social studies, art, and...
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: R for Respect

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This section has been developed to help generate discussions about respect, friendship and online conflict including cyberbullying. Download R for Respect toolkit resources.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Hitler Is Homeless in Vienna

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Hitler's experiences during his years in Vienna after his mother's death, including his friendship with August Kubizek, his time living in a men's home where he supported himself by selling his art to Jewish shops, the...
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Other

Creating a Family History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What do you know about creating a family history? This site offers a complete lesson plan for developing a sense of how your own family history fits into the bigger picture of the world's history.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Friends & Neighbors Packet: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these friends & neighbors-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Getting Ready for School: Booklet Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Get ready to go back to school with this booklet activity from PBS Kids! Students will have an opportunity to reflect on their fun summers and think ahead to the new school year.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Being Friends

For Students Pre-K - 1st
There are certain things you must do in order to be a good friend. Find a list of these things at this website as well as questions and activity ideas that will help you discuss friendship with classmates and family.
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The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Take One Picture Pshe & Citizenship

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
These project ideas demonstrate how art can be a starting point for so many different learning opportunities. See example of art pieces that center around friendship and citizenship.
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Philosophy Pages

Philosophy Pages: Aristotle (384 322 Bce)

For Students 9th - 10th
The life, philosophy and metaphysics of Aristotle (384-322 BCE) are surveyed. The aim of Aristotle's logical treatises (known as the Organon) was to develop a universal method of reasoning by means of which it would be possible to learn...
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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Friends Theme

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
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University of Oxford (UK)

First World War Poetry Digital Archive: Wilfred Owen Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Wilfred Owen, truly a war poet, as he had written no poetry before the war. Read how his friendships with other famous poets led to the development of his own writing. Included are hyperlinks to his poems and...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Belle of Batoche Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 7th
This is a teacher's guide for the historical novel Belle of Batoche, written by Jacqueline Guest, which looks at the friendship between two girls during the 1885 Riel Rebellion. The guide includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: The Reunion Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 6th
The Reunion, a novel by Jacqueline Pearce, explores the friendship between two girls and interweaves it with a grandmother's story of her severed friendship with a Japanese Canadian girl during World War II. This teacher's guide includes...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Chat Room Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Chat Room by Canadian author Kristin Butcher deals with the important issue of online safety. Linda, a teenager, develops a friendship online with someone who begins to send her gifts. This teacher's guide includes a book summary and...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Discussion Guide: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by James Boyne

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Bruno is only nine years old when his father, a commandant in Hitler's army, is transferred from Berlin to Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The house at "Out-With," as Bruno calls it, is small, dark, and strange. He spends long days...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Bang Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this novel by Norah McClintock, two boys' long-time friendship is ended after they rob a canteen and the owner is killed. "Bang" provides a vehicle for discussing the serious issues of guns, gangs and gun control laws. This teacher's...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Chill Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two high school friends disagree on the motive behind a teacher's unkind behaviour and it tests their friendship. This teacher's guide for Chill by Colin Frizzell includes a book summary, discussion topics and teaching ideas.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Talking Safely Online (Grades 3 5)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During the course of this activity students learn that while people can develop rewarding friendships online, they should be cautious with online-only friends and never reveal private information without asking a parent or trusted adult...
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Other

Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'The Moon Children' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
"The Moon Children", a novel by Canadian author Beverley A. Brenna, is about the friendship between a Romanian immigrant girl and a boy with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This teaching guide has ideas for discussion and learning activities.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars explore how patterns and contrasts in language (diction, imagery, figurative language) reveal central ideas in texts and develop various motifs (light vs. dark, dreams vs. reality, high vs. low, etc.) in Romeo and Juliet....
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Other

The Literary Link: Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This is a teacher's guide to the novel Belle Prather's Boy which includes teaching ideas and related themes. In this vivid coming-of-age story, two cousins develop a real friendship while discovering the truths about their families and...