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Let's All Help (The Little Red Hen)
Students explore ways that children can help during mealtime preparation. In this adult health lesson, students discuss the benefits of letting children help. They view a cooking demo and implement what they learned at home.
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Tickling the Brain
Learners improvise scenes which relate to the plot of Much Ado About Nothing.
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Personality Assessment
Students participate in an activity about personality perceptions. They take a personality survey for themselves. Then students take the same survey with their impressions about their partner, and discuss their findings.
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Look at Philanthropy in Children's Literature
Pupils listen to stories about different philanthropic acts. They work together in groups to create a list of the needs of their community. They chose a service project which could be completed by their class.
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The Model of Fitness
Young scholars measure their physical abilities. In this lesson plan on staying active, students record their physical abilities and try to improve upon their own results.
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Positive Comment Walk-A-Long
Learners find a partner, take a walk, and tell their partner something nice they had done or seen during the day or the week.
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I Can Read With Expression
Students practice reading fluently and expressively through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking, decoding, and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. They create a deck of expression cards to...
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First Graders, Fluency and FUN!
First graders develop their reading fluency during the school year. In this language arts lesson, 1st graders discover what skilled readers do when they are reading, such as chunking text or thinking about the meaning of the...
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Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Citizenship
How can you be a good citizen? Discuss this questions and others with the help of writing prompts and activity ideas at this website. The material provided teaches children that "Good citizens do their part to make their community a good...
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Five Steps to Teaching Solid Character in Students
The author of this article argues that character development must be taught in schools and that teachers must take steps to make sure students understand what perseverance, determination, empathy, responsibility, respect, and caring are....
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Good Character: Teaching Guides for K 5
Guides for teaching life skills that range from trustworthiness to conflict resolution. These guides were created for use with a set of videos, "The Six Pillars of Character," but most of the information and ideas can be used without...
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Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
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Good Character: Teaching Guides for High School
The pages in this website were created to accompany two video series, "In Search of Character" and "Not for Sale - Ethics in the Workplace, but most of the material can easily be used without the videos. Character topics include traits...
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Good Character: Ethical Dilemmas for Classroom Discussion Archive
An archive of challenging ethical dilemmas relevant to the experiences of high-school students. Use this solid set of resources as the foundation for lessons that teach about ethical choices and values based on real-life contexts and...
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Good Character: Being Responsible
Teaching young learners about responsibility just got a little easier. Use this resource to find discussion questions, activities, and writing prompts about being responsible.
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Good Character: Saying No
A collection of strategies and activities to teach students good refusal skills and skills for standing up to peer pressure when it comes to drug and alcohol use.
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Good Character: Prejudice & Respect
A collection of activities and discussion questions teaching students to treat people the way they would want to be treated. Includes strategies on for standing up for people who are being treated with prejudice.
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Good Character: Prejudice & Respect
A collection of Spanish language activities and discussion questions teaching students to treat people the way they would want to be treated. Includes strategies on for standing up for people who are being treated with prejudice.
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Good Character: Trustworthiness
A collection of writing prompts, activities, and discussion questions which teach pupils the importance of trust.
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Good Character: Respect
A collection of student activities, discussion questions, and writing assignments that teach students about being respectful.
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Good Character: Responsibility
Through writing activities, discussion questions, and student activities, teach young learners about responsibility.
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Good Character: Caring
Teach students skills and strategies for showing more care and concern for others.
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Good Character: Dealing With Feelings
Learn how to cope with unpleasant feelings, and to teach young students how to deal with their emotions.
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Good Character: Appreciating Yourself
Learn how to teach children to appreciate themselves through activities, writing prompts, and discussion questions about self worth.