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Quebec Ministry of Educ.: Functional Situations for Immigrant Literacy Stu [Pdf]
Adult immigrants to Canada often have no English and little or no education. This guide provides lesson units on basic life skills they need such as how to send money to another country, how to take public transit and how to plan a group...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Parent Blog
A resource filled with advice about all kinds of media for parents of children from preschoolers to teens. You can navigate the site by age, entertainment type, and topic.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Parent Blog
A resource filled with advice about all kinds of media for parents of children from preschoolers to teens. You can navigate the site by age, entertainment type, and topic.
University of California
Greater Good Science Center
Greater Good conducts research into the science of goodness, concerning itself with what makes us happy and compassionate human beings strongly bonded to our society. Find blogs on different topics, access to "Greater Good" magazine,...
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Keys to Success
Examines the lives of famous people who have achieved their life's goals by highlighting seven core principles that helped them to succeed. These include passion, vision, preparation, courage, perseverance, integrity, and pursuit of an...
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Foundation for a Better Life: Values: Personal and Family Values
A range of media and resources--billboards, televised public service announcements, first-person accounts, quotations--that communicate ideas about the meanings of a wide range of essential values, such as ambition, gratitude, respect,...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Life: Kabam! Comic Creator
Students learn about making choices when dealing with bullies, peer pressure, and conflict, then create their own comics, using speech bubbles to write dialogue, in response to what they have learned. Requires Adobe Flash.
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Partnership for 21st Century Learning
The Partnership website is an excellent place to learn what 21st century skills are, why they are important and who is supporting their development. Be sure to check out the Learning Hub.
4-H
National 4 H Council
Learn about local volunteering opportunities for kids of all ages at the National 4-H Council website.
Other
Next Step U: Helping Students Find the Right Path
The Next Step Magazine offers comprehensive resources on life after High School. Individuals can explore articles, college/university planning, career exploration, and life skills.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Doing Chores
In this story, a young girl does chores at home before going out to play. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Make Your Bed!
In this story, a boy uses his imagination to make his bed into different things before actually tidying up as his mother asked him to. Includes audio narration in 13 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Helping My Mom
In this story, a young girl helps out with chores at home. Includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Two Decisions Led Me to Olympic Glory
A brief video in which Steve Mesler explains how deciding to switch sports and to take responsibility for his actions helped lead to success at the Olympics. [4:02] Followed by a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching With Tunes
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Boston Public Schools Capstone Project
The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom Workshop: Making Family and Community Connections
Creating partnerships among schools, parents and local communities can lead to increased learning for students, strengthening their decision making skills, collaboration skills, and overall learning.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: The Work Ethic Site
Author provides lessons about work ethic which, as he defines it, consists of interpersonal skills, initiative, and dependability. The history of the work ethic describes this characteristic over time and assignments help students to...
Virginia Tech
Journal of Career and Technical Education: Teaching Vocational Work Ethics
This article discusses teaching vocational work ethics using various methods. Author includes notes on key concepts, the background, design, setting, subjects, findings, reflections, and conclusions of the study.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: School to Work: Ethics in the Workplace
Students can become involved in "thorny scenarios" that showcase the need for various workplace ethics such as honesty, personal responsibility, positive attitude, teamwork, and professionalism. The site offers a video-based learning...
Live Wire Media
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...
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Adults Can Learn From Kids
Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs childish thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity, and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Write Your Story, Change History
In this inspirational TEDYouth Talk, Brad Meltzer encourages us to dream big, work hard, and stay humble. [8:58]