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Steps to Responsibility
Sixth graders explore the steps in decision making and responsibility. In this lesson, 6th graders analyze a scenario and decide what actions should be taken. Students write in their journals.
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Perfect Manners/Roles of Citizens
Students discuss manners and citizenship. In this roles of citizens lesson, students read D.W.'s Guide to Perfect Manners and create a Venn Diagram with examples from the story. Students take a quiz.
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Developing a Life-Managment Plan
Students investigate values and goals to develop a life-management plan. In this life goals instructional activity, students identify life choices and factors affecting the choices. Students establish short and long term personal goals...
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Responsible Pet Ownership
Students understand the concepts of responsibility and dependency. Students are paired up, one student is blind folded and the other leads on a trust walk which illustrates the concepts of responsibility and dependency.
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Day Four: Environmental Responsibility
Learners discuss environmental responsibility. In this environment lesson plan, students create a story with the teacher with four made up characters. They have these characters do environmentally responsible and irresponsible behaviors...
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My Perfect Pet
Students explore pet ownership. In this my perfect pet lesson plan, students research common animals used as pets and complete a variety of activities based on this data.
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True Champions Practice Points-Responsibility
Learners explore personal responsibility. In this character development lesson, students discuss and analyze a quote from Mia Hamm, a U.S. soccer player. Learners brainstorm short and long term personal and team member responsibilities...
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Stakeholders Lesson
Students discover stakeholders in life situations. In this personal responsibility lesson, students ask and answer questions about real life scenarios, discussing who is at stake if things aren't handled correctly.
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Financial Plans
Students create an economic system based on responsibility and caring. In this economics and character lesson, students receive Character Currency and practice using the money for a good cause. Students brainstorm charities they would...
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Back to School (Elementary)
Students discover the vocabulary of the Six Pillars of Character and their relation to the school environment. In this character education instructional activity, students discuss the character pillars and brainstorm about their use in...
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Preventing Forest Fires (Elementary)
Students complete activities to learn about the importance of fire prevention and protecting the diversity of the forest. In this forest protection lesson, students discuss forest fires and work in groups to research the species count in...
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Fabulous Felines
Students create a list of pet needs. In this personal responsibility lesson, students discover which items a cat needs in order to survive. Students complete worksheets based on cat ownership.
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Good Citizens
Students differentiate responsible from irresponsible behavior in their community. In this citizenship lesson, students use technology to organize lists of responsible and irresponsible behaviors, write about the effects these behaviors...
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Dodging Responsibility
Students examine what makes people be responsible. In this responsibility activity, students chart the good and bad things that happen if you take responsibility and if you don't.
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Take Responsibility
Students examine the importance of responsibility. In this character education lesson, students participate in a group discussion to explore and define responsibility.
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Assuming Responsibility
Sixth graders examine the meaning of responsibility for sixth graders. For this responsibility lesson, 6th graders use a list of brainstormed ideas to create a definition of responsibility. They look at their own responsibility to...
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Personal Responsibility
Learners write in their journals. In this writing and responsibility lesson plan, students write about personal responsibility. They have three writing choices to choose from that all deal with this central theme.
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Rolling in Dough
Students make play dough. In this cooperation lesson, students practice working together in a group. Students work in small groups to make play dough. They discuss how they cooperated and how it was beneficial to completing the project.
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How Can We Help?
Students explore ocean animals and their environments. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students read a story and discuss the environmental needs of animals. Students think of ways to help clean up the environment and to make...
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Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
First graders identify jobs in the environment. In this social justice lesson, 1st graders describe rules to protect the environment and the roles specific jobs play. Students construct environmental rules for an imaginary town.
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Responsibilities
Students identify different responsibilities they have at home and at school. In this responsibilities lesson plan, students identify the responsibilities they need to follow through on and what happens when they don't. They put...
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4-H Leadership & Personal Development Activity Page
In order to create a classroom full of active participants, students need to feel that they are part of the decision-making process. Using this 15 question activity, learners can explore the importance of developing leadership skills.
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Be Responsible at School - Secondary
In this secondary responsibility poster, students read about the need for responsibility in older students. They read questions and answers about responsibility that are shown on the poster. They read about and give examples of times...
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Social Studies: Class Citizenship Tree
Third graders discuss citizenship and the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. On poster board, the teacher draws a tree and students draw their citizenship ideas on paper or clip pictures from magazines and glue them to the tree.