CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Beauty & Happiness: How Can We Achieve Happiness?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How can we achieve happiness?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Buddhism and Pessimism
Practice your critical analysis skills for the MCAT with this passage and follow-up questions about Buddhism and pessimism.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Animals
This poet reflects on the happiness that animals bring to life.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: What Is Affluenza? (Lesson in Materialism and Overconsumption)
A lesson plan developed for in-class screenings of the PBS documentary "Affluenza," but which could easily be adapted to support any instructional activity on understanding personal consumption choices. Students will compare and contrast...
PBS
Pbs: This Emotional Life: Altruism
PBS explores information on altruism and happiness including how it relates to positive emotions and improved social connections.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: The Sun Who Lost His Way [Pdf]
This illustrated ebook shares the story of the sun's son named Shiny that gets lost in the mountainous areas of Greece. Will the citizens of Greece ever see Shiny again and experience the happiness that comes with seeing it?
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
A lesson plan in which younger students draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...