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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Role Play How to "Make Up"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Develop conflict resolution skills as you role-play how to "make up" after a disagreement. Write an ending to a story about a conflict that demonstrates postive ways to show you're sorry and explore how conflicts make you feel.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Anger in Conflict: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand means of dealing with anger in conflict situations. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Anger in Conflict."
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Handout
Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch: Asia Overview 1999

For Students 9th - 10th
This site deals with the human rights issues of religious and ethnic conflict that have occurred in Indonesia and throughout Asia in the late 1990s, particularly in East Timor. Article also includes information about US-Taliban relations...
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Activity
FNO Press

Fno.org: Develop a Family Decision Making Council

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief article introduces PMI as a method of decision making. While the thrust of the article deals with building skills for the information age, the PMI model is an interesting way to go about family decisions.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guides for K 5

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Guides for teaching life skills that range from trustworthiness to conflict resolution. These guides were created for use with a set of videos, "The Six Pillars of Character," but most of the information and ideas can be used without...
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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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Article
Other

Talk, Trust and Feel Therapeutics: Anger Management: Parents Get Mad Too!

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Talk, Trust, and Feel Therapeutics provides tips for people and dealing with anger management. Want to scream and yell? The tips on this page are good for everyone. Learn how to express your anger in a good way.
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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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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: See and Hear Veterans' Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is the home of the Library of Congress Veterans' Project. Collected here are stories in multiple formats about specific topics dealing with a soldier's life in WWII, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam War. Pictures and other...
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Unit Plan
Other

Paul Yee: 'Breakaway' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This teaching guide provided by Paul Yee for his novel "Breakaway" provides a summary of the novel, discussion questions and classroom activities. The novel explores issues faced by Chinese Canadian immigrants as they deal with racism...
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PPT
Other

Schs: Fdr and the Court Packing Controversy

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated slideshow detailing the problems Franklin Roosevelt ran up against with putting his New Deal plans into effect. The conservative justices on the Supreme Court determined that many of the reforms were unconstitutional. Find out...
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Someone at School Has a Weapon

For Students 9th - 10th
Bringing a weapon to school usually results from feeling helpless or unable to deal with a threatening situation. Learn what you should do if you find that someone has brought a gun to school. Links to similar sites are available as well.
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Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Texas Navy: The Tabasco Incident

For Students 9th - 10th
Edwin Ward Moore resigned from the U.S. Navy to "accept an appointment as commodore of the new Texas fleet." This site offers information on his first jobs as commodore, which included recruiting new sailors and marines, dealing with a...
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Derek (Alton) Walcott

For Students 9th - 10th
This Calendar of Authors' Literature webpage has biographical sketch about of this West Indian poet and playwright who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott's works often deal with the conflict between his Caribbean...
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this lesson, students use photos that relate to a social studies concept (i.e., country of study, historical person, natural disaster, geographical landmark, religion, or governmental strife) as a springboard to write a first-person...
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Graphic
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Developmental Considerations Concerning Children's Grief

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a chart that explains children's perceptions of death and their responses at different ages in their development.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life: Make a Weekly Planner

For Students 4th - 8th
How-to's for using a weekly planner to keep track of homework, assignments, test dates, and other school priorities, with instructions for how to make a planner if you don't want to purchase one. Includes a downloadable blank weekly...
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Website
Curated OER

Kids Health: Como Puedo Lidiar Con Mi Enojo?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to handle situations and problems the right way without getting out of control, or even violent. Tips are given about how to control anger. In Spanish.