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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "I Am Me"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting students' understanding of themselves through self-expression, critical thinking skills, and creative writing and thinking skills...
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "I Would Invent"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to develop an interest in science, to promote critical thinking skills, and to enhance reading and writing skills.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Cause & Effect"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson plan includes promoting an interest in science for students, to use critical thinking skills, and to use graphic organizers.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Old Wisdom"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use inferential and critical thinking skills, and promoting an understanding and appreciation...
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Look in Mirror"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes making students aware of themselves, promoting appreciation of their individuality, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, and language arts skills.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What's in a Name"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students reflect on their value and self-worth, promoting appreciation of their individuality, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, and...
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Two Sides"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting the love of reading, helping students understand different points of view, different genres in literature, and critical thinking skills....
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Interpreting Maxims"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use critical thinking skills, cooperative learning and shared experiences, and appreciation...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "I Have a Story to Tell"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes acquainting students with the narrative writing process, emphasizing the importance of writing, encouraging students to use imagination,...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Beauty"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting cooperative learning, encouraging the integration of knowledge and creativity, the importance of looking beyond the physical, and the...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "If I Wasn't Me"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to use their knowledge and metacognition, as well as helping students implement reading, writing, and thinking connections...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Womanhood"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to become more aware of the role of women in society, and promoting appreciation for the contributions of women.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Not What It Seems"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes enhancing students understanding of metaphors, creative writing, and using life experiences to create poems and writing pieces.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What If?"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting student interest in history and helping students understand how the past influences the present.
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Handout
Other

Strategies for Differentiating Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Detailed article offers many suggestions for differentiating instruction in the classroom. Site also offers links to other resources on differentiation.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "History's Heroes"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students appreciate historical events, enhancing students' understanding of the difference between narrative and expository text, and...