Curated OER
Parenting - Discipline and Guidance
High schoolers learn the meaning/purpose of discipline and the various parenting types leading to obedience or self-discipline.
Curated OER
Accentuate the Positive
Students analyze the attitudes, ideas and beliefs of characteristics that
assist humans in living a positive, proactive life that values self,
family, community, nation and world. Students identify their own strengths as individual....
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Social Studies: Positive Guidance
Students discover the meaning of discipline in this teacher preparation instructional activity. In addition, they investigate why children misbehave and evaluate solutions to the problem. Next, students explore discipline methods that...
Curated OER
Parenting - Discipline and Guidance
Students explain the role of discipline and guidance in their own lives and become better able to appropriately guide and discipline young Students.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Renaissance and Reformation Writing for the SAT
Responding to a question on the Machiavellian principle of a ruler's need for power and ruthlessness, young historians are given writing tips and a framework for constructing a well-developed essay in 25 minutes. The given structure of...
Curated OER
Positive and Negative Conflict
Young scholars explore the concepts of positive and negative conflict. They examine the ideas of cooperation and competition and apply the idea of win-win to global climate change. Students participate in a friendly competition.
Curated OER
Leadership: Leading Off
Students explore leadership skills. In this leadership lesson, students examine leadership styles as they reflect on controversies and celebrations in American baseball. Students discuss the attributes of positive and ethical leaders.
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Positive Guidance Techniques
Students study different guidance techniques for Students. They apply their knowledge by creating a roller-box story to share with the class.
Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
Learning About Learning
Successful people know that they never stop learning. Eighth graders explore their preferred ways to learn new information with a reflective lesson about learning styles, that features surveys, writing prompts, and...
Curated OER
Football at Carlisle Indian School: A Tool for Assimilation?
Middle schoolers become familiar with procedures for helping Indians assimilate in the 1800's. In this history lesson plan middle schoolers explore how football helped Indians to assimilate in a positive way. Middle schoolers...
Curated OER
Win-Win Discipline
Students investigate methods to get along. In this philosophy activity, students explore different methods to disarm an argument or confrontation they disagree with. They discuss aggression, rule breaking and disagreements.
Curated OER
Walking in Line Properly
Students discuss what would happen if there were no driving safety laws, orally state four behaviors for walking properly in line, identify why walking in hall properly is important to promote positive learning environment, and perform...
Curated OER
Rules and Consequences in the Classroom
Students study rules and consequences as well as learn positive, healthy behaviors in and out of the classroom. In this behavior lesson, students discuss behaviors that got them into trouble at home. Students name trouble behaviors at...
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Social Studies: Child Abuse
Students discuss the difference between child abuse and discipline. During a discussion, they identify the types of abuse and prevention methods. In groups, students examine various scenarios and determine whether or not the situations...
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VH1 All Access Spotlight: Josh Groban, Lesson 2: Standing Out Above the Rest
Students, through class discussion, identify the characteristics of musicians and their music that help make them successful. Josh Groban is used as an example. They list positive adjectives to describe themselves and then their peers.
Curated OER
The Use of a Piece of Land
Students study positive and negative aspects of land use laws and zoning ordinances. They participate in a land use planning exercise using a role play activity.
Curated OER
One Plus One Makes You and Me - Respect
Young pupils should benefit from this wonderful series of activities designed to teach them how to get along with, and respect each other. Learners recognize how to demonstrate both respectful and disrespectful behavior, and take part in...
Ahisma Summer Institute
The Power of One - Math in a Different Angle
In this 2-day lesson focused on exponents, middle schoolers will cross the curriculum by engaging in science, history and language arts activities. Exponential growth will be explored using grains of rice on a chess board. Exponential...
Curated OER
The Art and History of Japanese Calligraphy
Chinese and Japanese calligraphy is beautiful and significant in both culture and tradition. Engage your class in this expressive fine art form through a lesson on using, holding, and creating brush strokes common to Japanese writing...
Women in World History Curriculum
Women and Confucianism
Young historians consider the far-reaching effects of traditional teachings on the debates about the current attitudes toward women in society. The discussion begins with a list of New-Confucian sayings and expands to a global perspective.
Santa Ana Unified School District
Getting to the Core: Globalization
How have advances in technology and communication changed our world? That is the questions that world history students contemplate as they examine a series of primary and secondary source materials
Curated OER
Ancient Aztecs
Is it a calendar? A religious symbol? A political statement? One thing for certain is that Aztec sun stone designs remain an important symbol in Mexican cultural art. Young artists craft their own Aztec Sun design incorporating ideas...
American Psychological Association
Psychology Goes to Madison Avenue
As part of a study of well-known psychologists, class members create a name, a business logo, an advertisement for TV, online, radio, or print, and a pamphlet for the business run by one of the psychologists on a provided list. An...
Curated OER
Animal Rights Vs. Animal Welfare - Understanding the Issue
Learners explore the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. They take a field trip to a farm to explore the producing animals for human use. After researching and collecting information from animal welfare/rights...