Deliberate Acts of Kindness

Students understand how their words and acts affect others. For this acts of kindness lesson, students were rewarded for kind acts by getting to have pizza with the Principal. Students also participated in a Principal's kindness day so...

Students make a book about kindness.  In this character instructional activity, students read a story about kindness and discuss how it applies to life.  Students complete a kindness counts page and then assemble them into a...

Students perform acts of kindness.  In this character lesson, students cut out seed shapes and write down their acts of kindness on them.  Students place the seeds on a bulletin board where they "plant" them below the grass line.

Inspire kindness in and out of school with a lesson that challenges scholars to perform 100 acts of kindness during the time between Martin Luther King Jr. Day to Valentine's day. Leading up to a celebration of friendship, learners...

Students decide what it means to be kind to others and draw pictures of ways they have been kind. They place kind kids pictures in a book for the classroom library. Students receive certificates for post lesson kind acts.

Students analyze an African folktale. In this literature instructional activity, students read the story "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" by John Steptoe and analyze the acts of kindness in the story. Students identify the setting of the...

Students create a poster that represents how to care and give kindness. In this caring and kindness lesson plan, students demonstrate character development by creating a poster in groups on how they can care and be kind at home, school,...

Students examine the different types of adversity African-Americans face. As a class, they role-play different roles in scenerios in which they discover the importance of facing their fears and taking responsibility for their actions. ...

Learners discover service learning and how it can help them build character.  In this community lesson, students brainstorm ways they can assist their classmates with problems, and write about it in their journal.  Learners...

Students view a picture of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. In this caring and kindness lesson students read Camille and the Sunflower and explore the feelings of the characters. Students complete worksheets related to Camille's feelings in the book.