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PBS

Pbs: This Emotional Life: Resilience

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explaining what resilience is, its relation to personal happiness, misconceptions about it, and how to increase your resilience when facing traumatic events. Includes a collection of videos of well-known figures discussing...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kindness, Empathy, and Resilience Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module includes several lessons that help promote kindness, empathy, and resilience among students.
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Resilience Cafe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBLU offers an example of project-based learning where students parallel tales of resilience out of historical context to those exhibiting resilience within their communities or even their own homes. This idea developed out of...
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Article
Other

Kids Helpline: Helping Kids Identify and Express Feelings

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Learning to identify and express feelings in a positive way helps kids develop the skills they need to manage them effectively. Here are some tips on how to encourage your child to express their feelings.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Donkey Hodie: Collection

For Students Pre-K - K
Donkey Hodie online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce social emotional curriculum. In every episode of this puppet series for 3-5-year-olds, Donkey Hodie and her pals, Purple Panda, Duck Duck...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Invention Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a number of articles, stories and research we learn about the invention process, including communicating your ideas, staying resilient when things go wrong.
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Website
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Learn About Green Infrastructure

For Students 9th - 10th
The EPA provides many ideas for integrating green infrastructures into communities. This site also discusses how this can build climate resilience and offers resources for doing a cost-benefit analysis, for addressing government...
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Unit Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: My Doll From the Memories of Yael Rosner

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
How do you teach the Holocaust to young children? The story "The Doll" is adapted for young children to help them understand the struggle and resilience of the Jewish children. The story omits all gruesome events. Use these teaching...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The August Wilson Education Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The WQED August Wilson Education Project offers resources to educators including a teaching guide, video clips from the documentary, interactive maps, a biographical timeline, webinars, contests for students, and much more. The goal of...