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Be a Good Egg

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use an eggshell decay to represent what happens when a person loses someone's trust. In this trust lesson, students discuss decay and complete an eggshell decay activity. Students use the experiment to represent what happens...
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Independence Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discuss and complete activities associated with Independence Day. In this Independence Day instructional activity, students brainstorm about holidays and their symbols. Young scholars complete organization charts and work...
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Making Your Local Ethical Shopping Guide

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students write a research action plan on how to buy products that are environmentally friendly even in tough world conditions. In this ethical business lesson plan, students learn that the economy, food prices, natural disasters, and...
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Picture (More) Perfect

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students help their community. In this character counts activity, students discuss problems facing the world and their community. They come up with solutions to some of these problems. 
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Positive Mistakes

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars discuss the role of mistakes and how they could turn it into a learned opportunity. In this mistakes lesson plan, students discuss perseverance on how to use a mistake as something valuable.
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Pulling-Together Web

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students roll a ball to each other that is attached to a string to form a web. In this web lesson plan, students learn how one person's actions affect a whole by making the class web. They discuss citizenship and how they are all...
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Pumpkin Fallacies

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars complete circumference activities using a pumpkin and explore treating people fairly in regards to their physical characteristics. In this math and character lesson, students view images of pumpkins and describe them....
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Putting the 'pi' in Pumpkin Pie

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use geometric formulas to divide a pumpkin pie. In this geometric formulas lesson, students review equations for area and circumference of a circle and divide a pumpkin pie to practice the formulas. Students use the Pythagorean...
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Summer Activities

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students practice saying no to their friends in a role play situation. In this friends lesson plan, students discuss what valuable friendship is, and that it is ok to say no to a friend.
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Valentine's Day

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a gardening activity to learn about the growth process and how to show care. In this garden care lesson, students discuss Valentine's Day poems for words of kindness. Students read a poem about a garden of love...
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VA Statute for Religious Freedom, III

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedoms and consider its implications. In this governing principles lesson, students explore primary and secondary sources regarding the document penned by Thomas Jefferson.
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Enlightened Arguments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this Enlightenment study guide worksheet, high schoolers read a brief overviews pertaining to the time period in world history. Students then comment on the 2 sides of the of the arguments in the 6 topics presented.
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I Feel Angry or Sad When...

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify inclusive procedures for activities. In this social skills lesson plan, students perform skits that illustrate inappropriate as well as appropriate classroom behavior.
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The Arrival

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students construct classroom rules. In this philanthropy lesson, students investigate The Mayflower Compact made by the Pilgrims and use it as a guide to form their own classroom rules. Students work in small groups.
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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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What is Sacrifice?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the Aztec culture. In this world cultures lesson, students examine the concept of sacrifice and discuss when sacrifice is justified versus unnecessary. Students come up with a personal way to make a justified sacrifice.
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Promoting the Common Good

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a service learning activity regarding universal human rights. For this service learning lesson, students craft posters that illustrate guaranteed rights that all people should possess.
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The Finish Line

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate the philanthropy of various cultural traditions. In this cultural education instructional activity, students read a handout about Native American, European American, and African American traditions and identify the...
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Art for the Common Good: Junkanoo!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore characteristics of effective group work. In this multi-cultural social studies instructional activity, students work in teams to design and construct a headdress similar to what would be worn during the Bahamian festival...
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Sharing Our Past

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners study and write about local history. In this local history lesson, students learn about their local history before visiting a group of senior citizens to discuss what they know. They practice the questions they will ask the...
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Act of Honesty

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze examples of honesty. In this character education lesson, students role play various situations and decide if they should engage in honest or dishonest behaviors.
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Playing By The Rules

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the meaning of honesty. In this character education lesson, students brainstorm school experiences where they have the choice of being honest. Students illustrate and describe actions related to honesty in a journal.
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The Mayflower Compact: Freedom Contract

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read historical documents. In this freedom lesson, students discuss the freedoms they have, such as whom to play with at recess, and how the pilgrims must have felt when they landed in America. Students read The Mayflower...
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We the Community

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. For this service learning lesson, students design and create informational books regarding nonprofit agencies and philanthropists in their community.

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