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The Changing Times of The Future
First graders share their wishes for the future and discuss changes that have taken place. They observe a puppet who describes life in the future and identifies positive and difficult challenges he may face. Individual students draw a...
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Setting Life Goals
By filling in this chart, participants identify in what ways they are successful, where they need to improve, and what their goals are in 6 areas of life ranging from family and friends to body and spirituality.
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Building Challenges
Students work together to complete different building challenges. They use prior knowledge to build tunnels and different types of bridges. They share their creations with the group.
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Beat the Ball
Students play a cooperative game. In this health and fitness instructional activity, students organize a ball game and keep score. Students get into groups and try to make it to around all bases.
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Parenting Challenges
For this career worksheet, students identify and describe what challenges are the most difficult for parents to deal with today. Then they identify and describe what they think the most difficult challenges will be when they become parents.
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What If It Happened To Me? A Look At The Disabled in Society
Students examine what it would be like to be disabled. They read literature with characters who have disabilities and discuss how society treats people with disabilities. They write an essay explaining why they are "normal."
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Large & In Charge
In this career instructional activity, students create a checklist of skills or traits that they want each of their new employees to have. Then they identify which traits are the most important and if they have those particular skills or...
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Challenges Faced by the New Nation's Presidents
Sixth graders, while in the computer lab utilizing the internet, locate primary sources to interpret and analyze the struggle of the new nation to gain the respect of European countries. They interact with a worksheet that organizes...
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Challenges in Changing the Face of a City
Learners examine a video in which people want to change the city of Oakland, California. They decide on the best course of action.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Adolescent and School Health
Information for students, parents, health professionals, and educators about health programs and services available in schools and communities to support adolescent health. Includes fact sheets, articles, data, etc.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Are You a Working Teen? Safety and Health on the Job
This site is a pamphlet about teen job safety. It gives specific examples of dangerous situations as well as laws for teen workers.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Veterans
In every adventure, some things change, but others stay the same. Use this page as a way to talk about the things that are the same, things that are different, and things that you'd like to keep the same, perhaps family traditions or...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Resilience
Giving new things a try helps children learn, grow, and take on challenges! These resources teach kids and parents that they are always growing and learning!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Alma's Way: Think It Through
As Alma learns about families, friendships, and communities, she discovers that sometimes challenges and conflicts arise. In those moments, Alma stops and "thinks through" the situation. Then, she knows what to do! Support critical...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Youth Health Risk Behaviors
This site from the CDC provides research results on health risk behaviors in the United States compared by race and ethnicity. Covers over twenty risk behaviors. Gives information in summaries, table sand charts.
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Kids Health: Teens Health: Dealing With Bullying
Site provides an article on bullying explaining what it is, why some teens are bullies, and how to handle the situation if one is being bullied. Easy to read and filled with good information.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Yrbss Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity & Health: Adolescents & Young Adults
The finding on whether or not today's teens get enough exercise - they don't. Give suggestions to correct this situation and tells the benefits to daily physical activity.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Dead End Job Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Frances works nights at a convenience store. After becoming friendly with Devin, she comes to realize he is stalking her. Then he breaks into the store and threatens her. This teacher's guide to 'Dead-End Job' by Vicki Grant includes a...
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association: Controlling Anger Before It Controls You
What is anger and why does it affect people differently? Here's a brochure from the American Psychological Association to answer some basic questions on anger.
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association: Violence and Youth
Looking at school shootings, this article posts questions regarding whether some kids are prone to violence and how soon we need to do something about it.
Other
Big Life Journal: How to Teach Problem Solving Skills to Kids (Ages 3 14)
How you teach problem-solving to kids depends on their age. Read on to learn key strategies for teaching problem-solving to kids, as well as some age-by-age ideas and activities.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Connect: The Truth About Your Brain
At the end of this activity, students will be able to understand how your brain changes and grows when you challenge yourself to learn new things. There are 3 parts to this LearnStorm growth mindset activity.
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Khan Academy: Connect: Supercharge Your Goals
Trying challenging things is the best way to grow your brain. At the end of this activity, students will be able to make SMART goals that can help guide growth.