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Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students demonstrate the concept of friendship. In this character education lesson, students read the book Best Friends and discuss what friendship means. Students create a picture book about their likes and dislikes.
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Building Communities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the ADL's Pyramid of Hate and use it to identify bullying instances they are aware of. In this character education lesson, students discuss their findings and design activities or programs to combat bullying in their own...
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Sticking Together: Sharing Our Stories, Our Differences, and Our Similarities

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a classroom community. In this character education lesson, students discuss the functions of communities and then work in small groups to write stories to be shared with their classmates.
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Outsiders Unit Plan

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete novel analysis activities for the The Outsiders. In this novel analysis lesson, students complete three weeks of lessons that help them analyze the text and character education lessons within the novel.
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Poems of Respect

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write poems of respect. In this character education lesson, students use the words "please," "thank you," "excuse me," and "I'm sorry" in acrostic poems that define the polite words and phrases.
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Passing Notes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate how to give compliments. In this character education instructional activity, students are given an envelope with strips of paper to write compliments on. Students are asked to give one compliment to each classmate....
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Citizenship

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners discuss and define the term citizenship. In this character education lesson plan, students explore the responsibilities of citizenship in small groups. Additionally, learners compare events in history and discuss their personal...
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Honesty

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this honesty word search worksheet, students find 20 words pertaining to character education. The words include "fairness," "respect," and "truthfulness."
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How to Answer Moral Questions

For Students 7th - 9th
In this character education worksheet, learners respond to five short answer questions related to ideal moral judgment. First, they explain why it is important, which components is most difficult, and how one engages in rational and...
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Teamwork Poster

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this character education poster worksheet, students read the teamwork caption and examine the picture the exemplifies teamwork.
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In-Group Favoritism

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils discover how to cross social boundaries. In this character education lesson, students discuss the positive and negative impacts of  favortism they witness in their local community as well as the international community. Pupils...
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Challenging Discrimination

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore discrimination. In this character education instructional activity, students define discrimination and discuss instances of it. Students brainstorm methods of encouraging diversity.
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Role Playing for the Common Good

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore conflict resolution. In this character education activity, students role play simple conflict resolution situations at school and present the skits to other classes.
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You've Got to be Taught to Hate and Fear

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore themes of prejudice and acceptance. In this character education lesson, students listen and respond to several fiction books, poems, and lyrics with a similar theme. Students locate articles with the main idea of...
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I Am a Star

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the unique qualities of themselves and others. In this character education lesson, students read the book A Unicorn Named Beulah Mae and create a paper star displaying their unique personality traits.
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What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify feelings and learn how to handle conflict. In this character education lesson, discuss what to do when a friend is feeling sad and develop positive ways to handle negative feelings.
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The Beagle Brigade

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners brainstorm how to handle conflict scenario.  In this character education lesson, students read a story and respond as to how the characters should handle the conflict. Learners examines feelings of characters and the choices...
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Bullying-Role Play

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the effects of bullying. In this character education lesson, students role play various situations and discuss how to resolve them properly.
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Understanding Justice, Kindness and Tolerance

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders consider the implications of racism and prejudice. In this character education lesson, 9th graders participate in a classroom activity that requires them to consider how self-deception and self-betrayal contribute to racism.
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Sexism: From Identification to Activism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore sexism. In this character education lesson, students define sexism and discuss individual behaviors and institutional policies that promote sexism. Students determine how they can be advocates to end sexism.
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Meet Danitra Brown Lesson on Friendship

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover the qualities of friends. In this character education lesson, students read the poem "Coke-bottle Brown" by Nikki Grimes. Students then discuss the Golden Rule and how it applies to friendships. 
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The ABC’s of Kindness

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice random acts of kindness. In this character education instructional activity, 1st graders consider acts of kindness they can carry out and then identify them as they create ABC books of kindness.
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Words Will Break Your Heart

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice being kind. In this character education lesson, students identify hurtful words they have heard and then share kind words they have heard. Students discuss the impact of hurtful words.
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Bee Kind Hearts

For Teachers 1st - 10th
Students promote random acts of kindness. In this character education lesson, students record acts of kindness that they witness on paper hearts. Students create a chain of hearts to hang in the school.

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