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Huddle up with a Character based Economic Plan to help Community Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars complete Perseverance, Courage, and Caring lessons from Get into the Game: Beyond Winning to properly prepare students for cooperative group learning and create a class climate conducive for a successful unit. They create...
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A Thousand Words

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students demonstrate compassion for others. In this character education lesson, students view photos from magazines and interpret what they see. Students discuss the feelings they get when viewing the photos.
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Teach Peace Now

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Help your learners discover empathy and understanding by investigating two sides of a situation. In this humanities lesson, pupils examine different pairs of shoes and hypothesize about who may have worn them. Discuss real life...
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Character Education Read Alouds

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to the story Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon and discuss the way each character interacts with the others. They role play pares of the story to practice showing compassion, and how to positively interact with their peers.
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Ornaments for Nursing Home Tree

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars participate in an activity that will allow them to create a gift for a nursing home patient and give their gift to someone who needs a caring hand. In this community service activity, students learn compassion, and also...
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Back to School (Secondary)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Welcome your class back to school! They will participate in a character education lesson plan in order to build community at the school. First they identify needs of new students by putting themselves in their shoes and create welcome...
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Happy Faces

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students demonstrate empathy. In this character education lesson plan, students read the book Alexander and the Horrible No Good Very Bad Day and discuss examples of bad days they have experienced. Students are given happy face cut-outs...
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Wringer: Novel Study

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Some traditions should be broken—or at least Palmer thinks so. Palmer, a character in Wringer, dreads the tradition that goes along with turning 10 so much that he even dreads his birthday. Scholars learn how Palmer solves his troubles...
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Heroes, Kindness, and "To Kill a Mockingbird"

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the concept of heroism. In this character education instructional activity, students reflect on the actions of the characters in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird as they create mission statements for Atticus Finch and...
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Defining Caring

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students define the word care and discover the importance of caring for others. In this character education lesson, students work as a class to brainstorm synonyms for care. Learners write a list of 5 things or people that they care about.
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Compassion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss respect, responsibility, and honesty, and participate in a project that reaches beyond the classroom.
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Using Words to Work Things Out

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore appropriate ways to communicate feelings.  In this character development lesson, students listen to Hands are not for Hitting and several other books about expressing emotions appropriately.  Students observe puppet...
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Self-Control Starts With You

For Teachers 6th - 10th
How can negative thoughts affect your life? Learn about the ways you think about yourself can define your personality, and how self control can be the answer to higher self esteem.
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Generation​ of Respect

For Students K - 12th
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Learners find out what it means to them. Scholars write sentences, do a word sort, and list what makes them grateful. Additionally, pupils learn how to be more respectful by completing worksheets that would make Aretha...
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Moving West!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore, explain and experience the importance of good character traits in everyday life by assessing the challenging journeys traveled on the Oregon Trail. They study the daily accounts of perseverance and courage along the trail.
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Defining Caring

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars demonstrate the philanthropic act of caring. In this character education activity, students brainstorm synonyms for care or caring and think of ways to demonstrate caring qualities.
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Caring

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students experience and discuss the concept of caring for others. They cover the term exclusion as it is related to caring for others and the many factors that are involved when you care for someone else. Looking for the good in others...
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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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Service Learning

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the value in helping others.  In this ethics lesson, students use videos, worksheets, Internet articles and group discussion to develop a personal perspective on what it means to help others.
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Before Rosa Parks: Early Grades Activity

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils read excerpts from an autobiographical work and retell scenes from the book. They consider the ways Susie King Taylor's autobiography displays character traits including courage, creativity, compassion and determination.
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An Introduction to The Outsiders

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Introduce S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders with a bell work journal that asks class members to define loyalty. Key words (patience, unity, honesty, caring, etc.), drawn from their musings, are posted around the room, and groups search for...
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Characteristics of Anne Frank

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read selected passages from The Diary of Anne Frank. Working in pairs, 8th graders determine what qualities and characteristics they would assign to her from their selected diary entry.
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The Bones of a Story

For Teachers K - 1st
For this Language Arts worksheet, students read a Clifford book and describe 5 story elements. These include title, setting, characters, problem, events, and resolution.
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Where in the World is Mrs. Waffenschmidt? #1

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this reading clues to discover the location of a famous tourist place and country worksheet, learners read to find out "Where in the World Is Mrs. Waffenschmidt?". Students write 1 answer.

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