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True Friends

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine qualities of friendship. In this friendship lesson, 4th graders investigate responsible decisions and healthy relationships.  Students will role-play relationship situations.
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How to Be a Good Friend

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students brainstorm and illustrate the dos and don'ts of friendship as a book or classroom display. They discuss how friendships work and the rules people follow to make them work.
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Fr ie n d s h ip, Self-esteem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners brainstorm examples of activities that show friendship and illustrate them and explain below each picture what is happening. They hear a poem about friendship, watch a commercial about it, write a book about it and now they are...
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Small Group Counseling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students are introduced to the concept of self-esteem and discuss how it is important in friendships. In groups, they counsel one another to determine how one's personal behavior affects the others in their group. They discover the...
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All About Me, My Family and Friends

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use general skills and strategies of the writing process to show their role in their family, school, friendships, the community and the world. They demonstrate their self-motivation and increasing responsibility for their own...
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When Randolph Turned Rotten

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils explore friendship by reading a book with their classmates. In this human relationship lesson, students read the story When Randolph Turned Rotten, and discuss the main character's relationships as well as the overall arc of the...
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Friends Mural

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover the art of Keith Haring by creating their own artwork.  In this art analysis lesson plan, students identify the artist Keith Haring and discuss his artistic works.  Students create their own murals similar to Haring's...
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Author's Corner

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read a picture book at a Web site about a bunny who solves a problem and becomes friends with a squirrel. Students then discuss story with classmates, brainstorm ideas for their own stories about friendship, and read the...
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Pee Wee Scouts

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read books to discover the importance of friendship, teamwork, and community service. After reading the book, they discuss conflict resolution strategies. Students discuss healthy eating food pyramids. They write an essay...
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Smiles Change the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss and write about groups that need friends. In this friendship lesson, students create a banner for someone who needs a friend. students pair share to chose a recipient for the banner.
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Basic Writing Skills

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Learners listen to story A Mason-Dixon Memory, by Clifton Davis, and complete worksheets about the story. The worksheets are embedded in the plan. This activity provides good reading comprehension practice for young readers.
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The Faithful Friend

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students work in co-op groups to create a Reader's Theater production of the story. Students create a flow map that sequences the major events in the story. Students research the island of Martinique and create a travel brochure...
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Feeling Faces

For Teachers K
Students explore their feelings. They listen to poems for emotions and complete the basics feelings activity sheet.
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Whoever You Are

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine cultures, traditions, and feeling throughout cultures. In this cultural lesson, students use literature, maps, and cultural information to examine how people have universal feelings despite their different cultures and...
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Finding the Friendship Dolls, A True Story: How Children Can Create World Peace

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to the book Finding the Friendship Dolls, A True Story: How Children Can Help Create World Peace through Toys. In this world peace lesson, students choose events in the story to create a timeline of those events. Students...
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Native American Friendship Dance

For Teachers All
The performing arts offer artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context and aesthetic valuing. This dance helps students understand dance history and develops cultural awareness. Students are given the...
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Analyzing Relationships

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore relationships between story characters. In this story elements and reading comprehension lesson, students generate character traits of the characters in Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson. Students describe...
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Can I Be Your Friend?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read "Charlie, the Caterpillar" and discuss the qualities of a good friend. They write group and individual paragraphs about the topic of friendship.
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Building Relationships in a High School Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore building new friendships during the first week of school. They participate in a variety of getting to know each other activities. Students work cooperatively and develop collegial relationships with their classmates.
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The Joy of Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students begin to build friendships with people of all ages. They identify their misconceptions about people when they first meet them. They interview an elderly person and draw a picture of them. They develop a slideshow of the person...
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Intergenerational Friendships

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students interview senior citizens. In this communications lesson, students read the book Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and discuss how to be sensitive to people of a different generation. Students develop interview questions and...
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Friendship Poster

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use WordArt to create a friendship poster. In this friendship lesson, students use Microsoft Word to create a friendship poster. Students create phrases using the WordArt program and arrange the phrases on construction paper to...
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Longfellow and Dickens: The Story of a Trans-Atlantic Friendship

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils examine the relationship between Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Charles Dickens. They read and analyze a manuscript, answer discussion questions, conduct Internet research, and discuss societal and historical context of the...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this tier two vocabulary instructional activity, students read the book Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship and identify the use of specific...

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