Live Wire Media
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memoirs About Telling Lies That Hurt
Book reviews about Walter Dean Myers' Bad Boy and Madonna's Mr. Peabody's Apples are given on this site. The author suggests that using these books to help illustrate the concept that it better to tell the truth than to suffer the...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Cheating
Consider the opinions and viewpoints of several pre-teens as they discuss cheating--which behaviors qualify as cheating and which don't, why cheating is wrong, whether they would report a cheater and if they would let a friend cheat.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Character Education
This site is loaded with resources for developing and maintaining a character education program in your school, class or team. It includes information on service learning, ethics in the workplace and leading class discussions as well as...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Honesty
What is honesty? How can you be an honest person? Find the answers to these questions as well as discussion questions, essay prompts, a self-evaluation quiz, and activity ideas.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness
Learn how to be a fair person. This website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young students can think critically about what it means to be fair.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Honest Abe [Pdf]
"Honest Abe" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about Abraham Lincoln's honesty; it tells stories of him walking miles to correct an accidental mistake. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from...
Other
Us Rice Producers: One Grain of Rice Study Guide
Study Guide explores the lessons to be learned from the folktale, One Grain of Rice. Although this story is from India, it has been passed from culture to culture. Students can identify the universal qualities of kindness, generosity,...
Other
In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues
In Character is an online journal that examines a single virtue--compassion, creativity, purpose, modesty, loyalty, or thrift, for example--from different perspectives. Articles are written by noted scholars, journalists, and critics,...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Exercising Character: Trustworthiness [Pdf]
Help students understand the work ethic, and character trait of trustworthiness. Includes material for young students, lesson ideas for teachers of young children complete with hands-on exercises.
Other
Connie Brummel Crook: 'The Perilous Year' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
"The Perilous Year", an historical novel by Connie Brummel Crook, begins in 1793 and is set in what is now Ontario. It follows the life of two brothers into adulthood. This teacher's guide has a book summary, chapter discussion guides...
Read Works
Read Works: George Washington's Cherry Tree
[Free Registration/Login Required] The story about George Washington chopping down a cherry tree. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Finders Keepers?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is the story of a lost wallet and the returning of it to the owner who lost it. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Significance of Ethics in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on the importance of ethics in public speaking including being honest, free from plagiarized content, no falsehoods or conflict of interest, and free from abusive language. It also discusses the qualities of an active...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Integrity in Work Teams
In this learning module, user will learn to identify the qualities of a person with integrity and the importance of integrity within a work team.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Aim Buddy Project: Educator's Guide
The complete AIM Buddy Project educator's guide to the social-emotional program complete with planning guides for the classroom.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dr. Seuss on the Loose
In Dr. Seuss' first published children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Marco, inspired by the passing of a horse and wagon, imagines a series of increasingly incredible sights on his way home from school. This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: President's Day for Early Elementary
Lesson for early elementary and special education students using graphic organizers/thinksheets to learn about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and honesty. Students finish by creating pop-up or pocket books about honesty with teacher...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Trustworthiness
A collection of writing prompts, activities, and discussion questions which teach students the importance of trust.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Integrity
In addition to providing a definition of "integrity," this article has information on the various ways in which integrity manifests in popular culture, law, and science. Contains several links to articles on related topics.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Turtle Trouble [Pdf]
This ebook shares the story of a little boy who hid a turtle in his bathtub. When the turtle is discovered, the boy tells a lie about how the turtle landed there. Will the boy get to keep the turtle?
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyrone the Cheater [Pdf]
This ebook shares the story of a small dinosaur named Boland who keeps being the victim of a bully named Tyrone the T-Rex. In this story, Tyrone keeps cheating in games. Can Boland and his friends devise a plan to stop the cheating?...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Be a Good Citizen
This lesson guides students to learning about the qualities of a good citizen.
Character Lab
Character Lab: The Wallet Test: How Honest Are You?
How honest are you? Read about the honesty test and ask yourself and kids questions from the Honesty Playbook.