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Stick Your Neck Out
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning instructional activity, students investigate the "Giraffe Heroes Project" and read about service works that teens have completed.
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Living Integrity
Students analyze scenarios regarding integrity. In this character education instructional activity, students participate in group discussions. Students analyze various scenarios regarding integrity and construct a written response in...
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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Learners research the exploration of Antarctica by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton. In this Antarctic exploration lesson, students watch a movie about Sir Ernest Shackelton and his ship the Endurance. Learners study a map of...
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A Straightforward Approach
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this character education lesson, students discuss the value of honesty and consider honesty towards self, family, friends, and the community as they write a reflection.
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Courageous Heroes
Students investigate the concept of a hero. In this character education lesson, students define courage and discuss heroes they know. Students brainstorm ways to describe a hero and create an acrostic poem.
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Project Assessing the Need
Students determine ways to serve the community. In this service learning lesson, students list human wants and human needs and repeat the activity for community wants and community needs. Students contact local agencies to conduct a...
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Feed Just One
Learners explore the concept of philanthropy. In this Mother Teresa instructional activity, students read a biography of Mother Teresa and discuss her attitude and contributions. Learners then respond to questions regarding the materials...
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Oprah Winfrey
Young scholars explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students read about the philanthropic works of Oprah Winfrey and her Angel Network. Young scholars discuss issues that are important to them.
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Honest Communication
Middle schoolers explore the concept of honest communication. In this character education instructional activity, students discover eschew obfuscation and role play sincere communication exchanges with other middle schoolers.
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Group Alignment
Learners discuss proper ways to work in a group. In this character education instructional activity, students identify the vocabulary words "inclusion" and "exclusion" and create a list of ways to respect others in a group setting.
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Public Trust
Students discover public trust. In this civics lesson, students explore how to promote public trust as they use their resources to support worthy politicians, athletes, celebrities, and corporations.
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Persuasive Drawing
Students read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien to then complete a persuasive art project for the novel. In this literature and art instructional activity, students read the book and determine their preference for the story giving facts to...
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Give One - Get One
In this give one - get one worksheet, students fill out this graphic organizer with giving and getting about a topic. Students complete 12 boxes.
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Facing Obstacles with Creativity and Humor
Students explore how to overcome obstacles. In this perseverance instructional activity, students discuss effective strategies that could be used when faced with an obstacle. Students discuss why having a plan, teamwork and perseverance...
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Anthropomorphic Writing
For this writing worksheet, students discover anthropomorphic writing-- giving human characteristics to an inanimate object. Students write a short passage and draw a picture of a laughing leaf.
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An Amusing Speech
Practice public speaking by telling an amusing story in this speech preparation lesson. Young speakers use note cards to plan out a speech of an interesting story in their lives. They practice their speech at home, ultimately delivering...
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Much Ado About Nothing: Fun Trivia Quiz
Check to see if your pupils can identify characters and basic plot points from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing with this online interactive quiz. While the content is not innovative, this basic quiz could be helpful as a sponge or...
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My Opinion Template
Fourth and fifth graders identify opinions and supporting details with this graphic organizer. Consider giving your class different categories to create opinions around. There is space to identify four different opinions.
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Points of View Worksheet
Put your learners' skills in identifying point of view to the test (or just practice) with an activity that has them identify the point of view in a story by giving three textual examples. The directions are clear and examples of first...
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Suffixes
Many words have suffixes, and knowing them can help scholars with vocabulary and spelling. They read a brief introduction explaining suffixes and giving two examples: -ly and -ful. Then, learners add these suffix examples to...
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Unwind: Anticipation Guide
After responding to a series of prompts on an anticipation guide, readers of Unwind craft five predictions about what will happen in Neal Shusterman's young adult science fiction novel.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Biopoem
Explore characters in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer through biopoems. Pupils follow the specific formatting presented here to write 11-line poems about characters in the novel.
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The Metamorphosis: Request Strategy
Round out your unit on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis with a series of reading comprehension questions. As kids read, they challenge each other to answer specific connection questions from the text.
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Tuck Everlasting: Titles for Chapters
High schoolers synthesize the information they've learned from each chapter of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting with a creative summarizing activity. With a graphic organizer for all of the book's chapters, readers title...