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Disability Awareness Activity Packet

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
When you have an inclusive classroom it is important to help your general education students understand their peers with disabilities. This packet provides information and activities to assist elementary-aged children in building a...
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Justice for All - Educating Youth for Social Responsibility: Grades K-5

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
In grades kindergarten through fifth grade, scholars take part in a social-emotional learning unit designed to boost social responsibility. Three hundred pages provide lessons and activities related to everyday classroom practices, the...
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Character Education: Confessing Mistakes

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this character education worksheet, students read and analyze a short story and then write their reflections on Eric's admission of his mistakes.
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Character Education: Dealing with a Teaser

For Students 5th - 8th
In this character building worksheet, students read, analyze and discuss a short scenario about a boy being made fun of everyday. Students determine how the situation should have been handled and then summarize what they would have done...
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Civil War Personalities Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Caring, trustworthiness, and responsibility—these are only a few character traits in focus of a lesson based on stories from the Civil War era. Class members explore several influential lives while reading biographies that highlight...
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Reading Study Guide: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

For Students 8th - 11th
Meant for use with Maya Angelou's first autobiographical volume I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the materials here are designed for a homeschool setting, but they'd suit any classroom or text. Graphic organizers, chapter summary guides,...
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Boys Will Be Boys...Right?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Through this exercise, high schoolers identify character traits present in Romeo and Juliet. They listen to an excerpt from "The Office of Christian Parents: Showing How Children Are to be Governed" and participate in a Socratic...
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Quiet on the Set!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In pairs learners perform a silent skit portraying relationships between two known characters from a popular book or a play for their classmates. Next, the class will read and discuss a NYTimes article about a film school in the Bronx...
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What is a Philanthropist?

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
What does a philanthropist do? Help your class explore philanthropy using character development and literacy ideas. Learners will define and give examples of philanthropy, listen to The Lion and the Mouse, discuss how the characters help...
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Creative Writing - Research and Letters

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Here's a fresh approach that combines research, business and personal letter writing, and creative story telling. Student groups research different decades in the life of a famous Japanese astronomer. They then craft a decade fact sheet,...
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Character Education: Caring- Oprah Winfrey

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore celebrity philanthropy. In this character development lesson, students read an article and discuss Oprah Winfrey's involvement in several charitable organizations.
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Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Who is a champion to your class? Elementary and middle schoolers think of a role-model from their lives. Then, in their journals, they write evidence of that person's perseverance. They identify the character trait of perseverance with...
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Character Education: Integrity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers understand the definition of integrity and explain quotes about it. In this integrity lesson, students apply quotes about integrity to a personal experience and write about it.
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What a Character!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students look at the role of characters in a story. In this character activity, students discuss how different types of characters change the plot of the story. They see how storytellers use their body, face, and voice to tell stories. 
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Character Education - Kindness

For Teachers 1st - 6th
How to get students to always remember to be kind to one another.
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Education Reform

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify problems and potential improvements for U.S. public school education. They research and debate the pros and cons of the "No Child Left Behind Act".
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Solution-Hero

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze the decision-making skills. In this character education lesson, students read a comic book and identify the superhero. Students then analyze the types of decisions the character makes throughout the story and if the...
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Portraits That Capture Character

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Young scholars analyze two of Dorothea Lange's portraits and create their own portraits of classmates. In this portrait analysis instructional activity, students define portrait and discuss two images of Lange's. Young scholars interview...
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Wall of Respect

For Teachers K - 5th
Students demonstrate respect. In this character education lesson, students discuss how to be respectful to adults and to peers. Students draw a picture of being polite or showing respect to a peer. Students place their pictures on a...
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Character Profile

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students exemplify non-stereotypical behavior. In this character education lesson, students read Pink and Say and discuss the negative effects of judging people on superficial characteristics. Students fill in a chart how they felt about...
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Word Search: Personal Character Traits

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this character education word search worksheet, students locate 15 words. All are positive character traits. This puzzle is in the shape of a lock and key.
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Character Education - Self Respect, Respect for Others

For Teachers K
Students respond the story of Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes and discuss the ways in which she showed respect for herself and for others.
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Teaching Justice: Schooling and the Four Waves of U.S. Immigration

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
U.S. immigration is the focus of a unit on social justice. Over the course of a school year, young historians read a variety of texts to learn about four waves of immigration that have occurred over time in the U.S. An emphasis on...
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More of, Less of

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Have your class discuss behaviors they like from other people. They will then get into groups and list behaviors they want to see more of from people in their community, classroom, or school. This is a great Character Counts lesson!

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