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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tea Moloby: Simplifying and Strengthening Emotional Wellness for Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
TEAMology's mission is to understand and improve emotional health to enhance every child's ability to succeed in school, career, and life. This a social-emotional learning curriculum with character-driven activities and videos brought to...
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PBS

Pbs: This Emotional Life: Resilience

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explaining what resilience is, its relation to personal happiness, misconceptions about it, and how to increase your resilience when facing traumatic events. Includes a collection of videos of well-known figures discussing...
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Digital Well Being

For Students 9th - 10th
Going online and using technology can impact our emotions and mental health. Digital well-being is about recognizing the way going online makes us feel and knowing how to manage this. It includes questions and answers and tips for...
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PBS

Pbs: This Emotional Life: Attachment

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS explores information on forming attachments including the types of attachments and the importance of each.
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Other

Playground Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site hosts a series of descriptions for playground activities from around the world. The author wants to contribute to the social and emotional well-being of pupils through its resources on teaching children how to play.
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PBS

Pbs: This Emotional Life: Forgiveness

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what forgiveness is and the benefits it offers. Includes anecdotal stories of forgiveness and reconciliation, strategies for forgiving others, and articles.
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Other

Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A comprehensive guide written in response to violence in schools and the efforts by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop early warning signs of violence in schools. This guide is designed to provide...
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Other

Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A comprehensive guide written in response to violence in schools and the efforts by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop early warning signs of violence in schools. This guide is designed to provide...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mister Chris and Friends

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Mister Chris and Friends is a show for young children produced by Vermont PBS. Each gently-paced episode begins with a wish made to a magical Wishing Well. This wish propels Mister Chris and his friends on an adventure to discover more...
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
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Other

Helpguide: Understand, Prevent and Resolve Life's Challenges

For Students 9th - 10th
Professional and unbiased information for those seeking knowledge regarding a particular area of health and wellness. Modules are broken down into aging, children and family, healthy lifestyles and mental health. Comprehensive and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Resilience Background Information

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help children learn to cope with their feelings as well as build more resilience and maturity, in this guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Other

Sage Publishing: Play and the Learning Environment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Play is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence. This chapter discusses the definition of the physical environment and play, the defining characteristics of...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Show Don't Tell

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
This lesson provides students with examples of Show, Don't Tell and connected emotions including an emotions and feelings chart. It gives them an opportunity to practice the concept as well.
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US Department of Agriculture

Choose My Plate: Why Is Physical Activity Important?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes a simple list of reasons why getting exercise is important for your physical and emotional well-being. Also, learn definitions and examples of aerobic activities, resistance activities, and stretching activities.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Dealing With Disappointment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children learn ways of dealing with feelings after being disappointed through simple exercises and tips, as well as questions for discussion and writing prompts. Includes ideas for home assignments and notes for parents.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Appreciating Yourself

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Meant to accompany a video "Appreciating Youself," this website provides teachers and students with prompts for class discussion, small-group work, and writing assignments on self-esteem and self-appreciation. Includes notes for parents...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: What Skin Are You In?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using two songs by India Arie as well as an excerpt out of Sharon Flake's The Skin I'm In, students will explore their own self image. After analyzing the qualities that each student feels that they embody, they will compare these to the...
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BBC

Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
At the companion website for the BBC series "Simon Schama's Power of Art," hosted by Columbia University professor Simon Schama, find insightful analysis of eight artistic masterworks, each of which represents a turning point in history....
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Stuck in the Middle: Strategies to Engage Middle Level Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about three strategies that can help create a meaningful curriculum to engage middle-level learners. The strategies draw from effective classroom practices across grade levels, as well as from research about the social, emotional,...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 20: The 1960s Through Music

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By listening to and analyzing the lyrics of selected examples of popular music from the 1960s era, students will develop a greater understanding of the historical and political forces as well as the emotional climate of the decade. This...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: What Should I Do if My Family Fights

For Students 9th - 10th
When the people in your family are fighting, it's hard to figure out what to do. You may be feeling sad, ashamed, or even angry when it happens. Whatever your feelings are, what you probably want most is for the fighting to stop....