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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Gain and Risk: Playing to Win vs. Playing Not to Lose: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that in a conflict or decision-making situation, parties may evaluate potential gains and risks of loss in different ways. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Gain and Risk: Playing...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Accommodating: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how the accommodating conflict style presents itself in various situations. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Accommodating."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compromising: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how the compromising conflict style presents itself in various situations. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Compromising."
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fable Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a PDF Fable Chart designed for students to complete as they read a fable; it includes the title and author, the animal character, human characteristics, the individual elements of a short story, and the moral or lesson.
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Article
US Department of State

U.s. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Gulf of Tonkin and Escalation, 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1964 and subsequent escalation in that conflict through the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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Website
Other

The Vietnam War

For Students 9th - 10th
The Vietnam War is a series of articles that discusses the origins, battles, and outcome of this conflict that involved much of Southeast Asia during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. This introduction gives the background for U.S. involvement.
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Website
Other

Project Ploughshares

For Students 9th - 10th
Website for an ecumenical peace center of the Canadian Council of Churches. Organization formed to work towards control of weapons trade, reducing reliance on military force, abolishing nuclear weapons and building peace in the world.
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Other

Classroom Connections: Cultivating Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here you will find free teaching resources for secondary teachers on cultivating peace and teaching students how to take an active role in promoting peace in the world around them.
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Other

The Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to Feathers and Fools [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Feathers and Fools by Mem Fox is an animal story about tolerance of differences and learning to accept one another. The activities in the guide help students explore the concept of tolerance and how to stand up for others when they are...
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Professional Doc
Other

Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A comprehensive guide written in response to violence in schools and the efforts by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop early warning signs of violence in schools. This guide is designed to provide...
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Professional Doc
Other

Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A comprehensive guide written in response to violence in schools and the efforts by the US Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop early warning signs of violence in schools. This guide is designed to provide...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Ideas in Science: Scientific Controversy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to find out why controversy in science can actually be productive and help science progress.
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Other

Heart Mind Online: 5 Step Problem Solving for Young Children

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Even young children can be taught to solve their problems peacefully with this 5 step process. A lesson plan is included that allows learners to practice this skill.
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Professional Doc
Other

Brandeis University: How Planning and Reflection Develop Young Children's Thinking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young children ages three to six are capable of making thoughtful decisions about their behavior and keen observations about their environment. We can promote the development of thinking and reasoning in young children in the early years...
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Article
Other

Work 911: Cooperative Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site defines "Cooperative Communication" and provides examples and information as to how to apply it. Although the article is geared toward the workplace, it applies to all forms of communication, especially when negotiating....
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits of Working Together

For Teachers K - 1st
Article discusses how cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group.
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Activity
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Plot 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to teach students to predict problems and solutions in fiction text and to identify the relationship between problems and character conflicts within a story....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Learn how the central characters' qualities influence theme and resolution of the central conflict.
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Website
Other

Raising Children Network: Family Rules

For Students K - 1st
Tips for developing family rules. Household rules let everyone in the family know how to behave. They help family members achieve a balance between getting what they want and respecting the needs of others. They can also help children...
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Other

In Time: Tenets of Democracy: Critical Thinking and Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th
This critical thinking exercise and checklist is designed for teachers and students. A lesson plan can be developed here that illustrates decision-making skills and a teacher can use examples of common problems that get in the way when...
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Professional Doc
Other

Teacher Vision: Problem Solving

For Teachers K - 1st
Help your students learn how to overcome issues independently by integrating problem-solving skills into your lesson plans. This article will help you teach your students how to understand, identify, and resolve issues that they are...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Restorative Justice: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that restorative justice is one of many conflict resolution methods, and is specifically an application of conflict resolution techniques to criminal activity and its aftermath. It...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Different Styles of Mediation

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that mediation is one of many conflict resolution methods, with a number of variants.

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