Young scholars compile a list of 10 desirable traits for working with others. They evaluate the traits that are necessary for specific jobs and describe them in work settings.

Students explore the social change during the nineteenth sand early twentieth centuries. The founding of the American Red Cross by Clara Barton and the role it played in organizing help for those in need is examined in this lesson plan.

Students engage in a lesson that focuses on the character trait of being grateful. Its connections to becoming a peaceful person are emphasized by reading a story that helps students to make cognitive connections to the subject.

Students keep "Mindwatch" diaries to chart their own prejudices and stereotypes. In this social justice lesson, students monitor their own reactions to people who are different from themselves. Students identify and discuss patterns of...

Pupils engage in a lesson that teaches about respect for self and others. They read a story that illustrates the concept of respect. The story follows with questions and a song to help increase comprehension through repetition.

Students engage in a instructional activity that uses guided questions in order to help create cultural awareness among students. The use of gender is considered and the students reflect upon the answers of questions to learn social skills.

Young scholars discover details about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. In this natural disaster lesson, students visit selected websites to analyze primary sources related to the personal accounts of the earthquake. Young scholars...

Students practice positive social skills and manners in this short lesson plan that is used to start each session of P.E. class. They identify a positive behavior, such as be on time, written on a bee cutout pasted among others on the...

Learners determine that history is a field of study that can help them understand themselves and the people around them. By reading sources by and about people with many of the same interests and concerns that they have and learning to...

Students explore the effects of massive flooding in Pakistan. In this global issues lesson, students read an article about  monsoons and flooding in Pakistan. Students respond to discussion questions based on the article.

Students role play giving advice. In this social skills activity, students work in teams to offer advice and suggestions. Students give each other advice and the class attempts to determine the problem. Resources are provided.

Students practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.

Students learn the idea of drama in their own lives; and then transfer that idea to the works of others in this series of lessons. They discuss the question of identity.

Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with developing the social skills of loving others in constructive ways. They participate in the reading of a story that illustrates the concept of love and its application. Then...

Students investigate the concept of friendship with the help of two different quotations. The quotations are used to compare and contrast two facets of friendship and what is needed to encourage fruitful relationships. They read "The...

Young scholars engage in a lesson that focuses on the principal of tolerance. They are given examples of what a school should be like. The goal of the lesson is to get the students to treat others fairly even if differences exist.

Students examine the concept of justice. In this fairness instructional activity, students explore just and unjust activities they have observed in the world. Students attempt to look at both sides of stories.

Learners understand the idea of a nonprofit organization, the service donated by others, and how it helps a community. For this philanthropic lesson, students explore the types of nonprofits that would be beneficial to a school and what...

Eighth graders explore the American West. In this Westward Expansion instructional activity, 8th graders examine primary sources to investigate the dangers travelling to and settling in the American West. Students design brochures that...

Middle schoolers explore the concept of core democratic values. After completing a survey of student populations regarding bullying, small groups analyze their findings and present their findings to the Student Council, principal,...

Students read The House of Dies Drear and understand how he filled a need and helped people. In this philanthropy lesson plan students understand how the people who helped on the "Underground Railroad" filled a need and helped others....

Designed to thoroughly reinforce your classrooms' rules with young learners, this lesson makes several suggestions for instructional procedures to accomplish this goal. For example, repeated questioning and procedures as well as...

Students study their own culture, traditions and ways of life. They compare and contrast their culture with other cultures.