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You And I

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this icebreaker worksheet, students use this Venn diagram to compare and contrast themselves with a friend. The diagram is labeled "I like, We like, You like."
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K
Students participate in tactile and visual exploration. For this tactile and visual exploration lesson, students listen to John Archambault's, Grandmother's Garden, and sing the song, "Friends Are Like Flowers." They participate in ice...
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Friendship

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore human psychology by reading a book in class. In this friendship lesson, 1st graders identify the benefit of friends and strong relationships while reading the book The Rainbow Fish. Students analyze the images from...
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Wonder Wheels

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover ways that they all are alkie as well as different from each other. They write down three ways that students who cannot walk might be able to move around. Students complete a graphic organizer to analyze the immediate...
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New Year's Resolutions

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students write about New Year's Resolutions made about personal improvement, family and friends, and school and the outside world. They write a first draft and a final draft of a five-paragraph essay about their resolutions.
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The Posse in Austrailia

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore the use of commas and periods. They compose a friendly letter without commas or periods to give to a partner to revise. In addition, they discuss how these punctuation marks helped readers better understand the meanings...
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On the Other Hand

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students discover how to write compare and contrast paragraphs. Students read the instructions and information, then write paragraphs comparing and contrasting 2 friends or family members.
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Teen Life Counts Suicide Prevention

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students participate in a four-day program designed to help themselves and/or their friends who may be contemplating suicide. They take part in role-playing activities, discussions, etc.
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Dying to be Thin

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students role-play scenarios in which they encounter a friend or acquaintance who may have an eating disorder and brainstorm ways to help the friend. They create informational brochures with information about eating disorder prevention.
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Linking Kwanzaa to Technology and History

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use the Internet to research the holiday of Kwanzaa. Using the information, they create a brochure to promote the holiday to others. They email the information to a friend to end the instructional activity.
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Mean, Median, and Mode

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students find the mean, median, and mode for a set of data. They define terms and find examples, as well as complete practice exercises. They work cooperatively to analyze real data from a variety of websites provided. To...
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Trumpet of the Swan

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Trumpet of the Swan worksheet, students think about a friend of theirs and answer six questions. Students are encouraged to make a connection to the friendship that develops in the book between Sam and Louis.
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Interpreting a Pictogram

For Students 4th - 5th
In this pictogram worksheet, students read and analyze a pictogram about dogs, hedgehogs, birds and butterflies and then answer 6 short answer questions. Students conduct a similar survey on pets owned by their friends and put their...
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Soccer Game Meeting

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this letter writing worksheet, students write a note to a friend explaining when and where to meet for an upcoming soccer game.
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A note about Dinner

For Students 5th - 6th
In this note writing activity, students write a note to a friend explaining why they can't come to their house for dinner. An example of a note is provided for the students.
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Holiday Tally

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this tally chart worksheet, students ask ten friends which of 3 holidays they like best. Students create a tally chart with their results and answer 6 questions.
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Tally and Graph

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this survey and graphing worksheet, students take a survey of 10 friends by asking them to vote for their favorite musical instrument. They fill in a tally chart, track the tally marks, and develop a bar graph with the information.
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Like Me or Not Like Me?

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this getting acquainted at the beginning of the year activity, students fill in the blanks about themselves and another classmate regarding school subjects and friends and then compare them. Students fill in 12 blanks.
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Welcome to Our School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students build a friendly environment for future students by creating a PowerPoint presentation.  In this middle school introduction lesson, students utilize a camera to record important moments throughout the school year....
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Earth Day

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners complete a variety of Earth Day activities. In this recycling and the environment lesson, students listen to Earth friendly music, create a car out of juice boxes, use soda cans and bottle caps to create a Halloween...
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Cracking Cassius

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the argument between Cassius and Brutus to define the importance of friendship and study a Shakespearean play. In this Julius Caesar analysis lesson, students list qualities of a best friend and read scenes from the...
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Land Use and Lawmaking in California

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design a plan for a housing development in their city. In this house development lesson plan, students observe pictures of land use, research lawmaking, and develop a plan for an environmentally friendly housing development in...
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Priceless Gifts

For Teachers Pre-K
Students explore the concepts of friendship. In this character education lesson, students read the book Priceless Gifts and discuss friendship. Students illustrate a picture of them doing something nice for a friend and connect the...
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Designing "Green" to Save Our Green Planet

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design an environmentally friendly home.  In this middle school math/science lesson, students watch videos on creating green design.  Students work in collaborative groups to determine what makes a house green and to...

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