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Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Responsibility (Spanish)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to be responsible with simple tips, discussion questions, and activity ideas. The Spanish version of this website, meant to accompany a video on respect, is a good resource for young children who are learning about respect in...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Citizenship

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about good citizenship with simple tips, discussion questions, and activity ideas. This website, meant to accompany a video on respect, is a good resource for young children who are learning about respect in school and at home.
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Citizenship (Spanish)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about good citizenship with simple tips, discussion questions, and activity ideas. This Spanish version web page, meant to accompany a video on respect, is a good resource for young children who are learning about respect in school...
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness (Spanish)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to be a fair person. The Spanish version of this website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young students can think critically about what it...
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Caring (Spanish)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Do you know how to be a caring person? This Spanish version will help you find answers to this question, discussion prompts, writing ideas, and activities for children learning about what it means to care for other people.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Dealing With Feelings

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn how to cope with unpleasant feelings, and to teach young students how to deal with their emotions.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger (Spanish)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Spanish version of a collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young students in learning to control their anger.
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Working Out Conflicts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to work out conflicts with others "Fairly and peacefully." The Spanish version of this website includes simple tips to help you resolve problems, control your anger. Discuss conflict resolution with other students and your...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Appreciating Yourself

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn how to teach children to appreciate themselves through activities, writing prompts, and discussion questions about self worth.
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guide: Controlling Anger

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of activities and discussion questions to assist young students in learning to control their anger.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Character Education "Respect"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will be implemented as part of a character education unit on integrity. Students will apply research skills, open-ended discussions, and cooperative learning experiences to investigate the meaning of "respect." Practicing...
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Take a 2nd Look"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This strategy's focus is to promote higher-order thinking skills and cooperative learning. Good resource.
Article
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Socratic Approach to Character Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A how-to article that illustrates how teachers can educate students about making choices that are consistent with their ethical values. A comprehensive plan for using the venerable Socratic method to reinforce critical-thinking skills by...
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Caring

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Do you know how to be a caring person? Find answers to this question, discussion prompts, writing ideas, and activities for children learning about what it means to care for other people.
Lesson Plan
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to be a fair person. This website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young learners can think critically about what it means to be fair.
Activity
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Preventing Conflicts & Violence

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how conflicts arise, how to prevent conflicts, and how emotions and attitudes affect conflicts. Also, learn how to speak out against violence with the help of the discussion questions, activity ideas, and writing prompts provided...
Activity
Live Wire Media

Good Character: School to Work: Ethics in the Workplace

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can become involved in "thorny scenarios" that showcase the need for various workplace ethics such as honesty, personal responsibility, positive attitude, teamwork, and professionalism. The site offers a video-based learning...
Website
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Respecting Others

For Students 3rd - 8th
How can you treat others with respect, particularly those who are different from you? Discuss this question with the help of writing prompts, activity ideas, and more.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Hooray for Heroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find out what characteristics define a hero when you check out this resource. This site provides activities and lesson plans.
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Other

Creative Activities: Respect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find several simple lesson activities for young students learning about respect. Students not only discuss what it means to earn and give respect, but also participate in physical and artistic exercises.
Activity
Character Lab

Character Lab: Three Good Things: Gratitude

For Students 9th - 10th
In this daily reflection, you list three things that went well for you, and why they went well. A printable chart is included.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders learn that even in the most fantastical settings, literature can teach us real lessons about life. Students explore the opposition of good and evil; the value in courage, adventure, forgiveness, and honesty; and the...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Out of the Dust

For Teachers 6th Standards
Focused on the Dust Bowl and how families fought for a meaningful existence and survival, this unit will offer students different perspectives on how people respond to adversity, the lessons that can be learned from hardship and failure,...
Unit Plan
Middlebury College

Middlebury College: Study Guide for the Idiot

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by students at Middlebury College, this study guide is a good resource for anyone interested in learning about Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Provides plot summaries, character analyses, and information on the historical background of...