International Acts of Kindness Day

Develop a world-wide, email chain on which class members can showcase their acts of kindness. After defining the meaning of random acts of kindness through discussion and through a reading of Random Acts of Kindness,...

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

What does a philanthropist do? Help your class explore philanthropy using character development and literacy ideas. Learners will define and give examples of philanthropy, listen to The Lion and the Mouse, discuss how the characters help...

Students complete acts of kindness. In this kindness and compassion lesson plan, students read books about acts of kindness and complete various activities each month to show kindness.

As part of a study of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack on the World Trade Center, class members reflect on how events can change the course of lives. Individuals then create a presentation that features a historical image, the...

Middle and high schoolers take part in the International Acts of Kindness Day. In a simple lesson plan, some ideas are presented which your charges can choose from. For example: donating to charity, sending notes of thanks, or developing...

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 explore philanthropy by completing a worksheet. In this kind act lesson plan, students discuss ways they have been helped in the past by kind people and how they can have a positive impact on someone who is sick or dying in...

Walk in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark as they discover the wonders, beauty, and dangers of the American frontier. After gaining background knowledge about Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase, young explorers use primary...

Middle schoolers visit Japanese internment camps. In this World War II lesson, students examine photographs from the internment camps and use them to imagine what it must have been like to live in the camps. Middle schoolers write poems,...