PBS
Pbs: Host a Pretend Dinner Party (Good Manners)
Dress up in party clothes and practice manners and conversation skills at a make-believe dinner party.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Caring
Teach students skills and strategies for showing more care and concern for others.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Be Polite
Manners can get us a long way! This brief e-book teaches us to be polite.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: A Kindness Tree
Create a "Kindness Tree" and make it bloom by adding flowers each time you perform an act of kindness and good will. Related episode: Meek for a Week
Character Lab
Character Lab: Lemons and Lemonade: Whatever Life Give You, Give Back
As the Dalai Lama once said, "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." This article explains what happened to one man when he had an epiphany that changed the trajectory of his life.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Making Kindness Common: How to Raise Kind Kids
Kindness is contagious and kindness spreads. If we want our kids to be kind, not only should we model kindness ourselves, we should go out of our way to expose them to examples within their own age group. Read an example in this blog.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Kindness
This article discusses the importance of kindness and ways to foster it in young people.