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Big Life Journal: How to Teach Problem Solving Skills to Kids (Ages 3 14)
How you teach problem-solving to kids depends on their age. Read on to learn key strategies for teaching problem-solving to kids, as well as some age-by-age ideas and activities.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Trouble With Friends
It can be hard learning how to get along with one another. Here are some tips of how to handle challenges with friends.
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Healthy Humor
Students will enjoy these activities that promote a "Pro-Laughter" campaign using their creativity while exploring the physical and emotional effects of laughing.
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Scientific Parenting Tips: Teaching Children to Take Initiative
Some children seek challenges and take initiative, whereas other kids can have difficulties to set goals and take action. This post will discuss a scientific article about differences in children's personal initiative. Research-based...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Why Am I in Such a Bad Mood?
This article from KidsHealth.org is written to help you understand feelings such as anxiety, sadness, and irritability and gives some ideas for ways to overcome the blues.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze a Poem (English Iii Reading)
This lesson focuses on strategies for reading and analyzing a poetry. Reading poetry creates some interesting challenges because a poem uses lines and stanzas rather than paragraphs in order to create emotions and experiences. Figurative...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Overcoming Obstacles
When faced with a bump in the road, sometimes we forget we have a choice: overcome the obstacle or let it overcome you. Steven Claunch, who was born without fingers on his right hand and with one leg shorter than the other and has...
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Childline: Asking an Adult for Help
Here is some advice to help children feel comfortable asking an adult for help.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Children's Book Author Eric Carle Was Born on This Day in 1929
Eric Carle's illustrations feature paper collages, so after reading some of Carle's books you might create your own word collage for an added challenge. Students will choose a scene, an emotion, an animal, or a person. Then students...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Safer Internet Day
Safer Internet Day 2021 will be celebrated in the UK with the theme: An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world. The campaign focuses on how we can decide what to trust online, supporting young people to question,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ohero:kon Under the Husk: Viewer Discussion Guide
Ohero:kon - Under the Husk follows the journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women. Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are childhood friends from traditional families living in...
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Conflict Resolution
Use role-play to set up and resolve conflicts, in this activity from Arthur.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Culture Commotion
Providing daily exposure to various cultures will enrich children's experiences. Enable them to appreciate and share their own heritage.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Appreciating Talents
Boost children's self-esteem by helping them to create awards recognizing their personal strengths and abilities.
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Do2learn.com: The Feelings Game
For this game, you are presented with several photographs and must choose the facial expression that matches the feeling you are given.
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association: Controlling Anger Before It Controls You
What is anger and why does it affect people differently? Here's a brochure from the American Psychological Association to answer some basic questions on anger.
Understood For All
Understood.org: Trouble With Self Regulation: What You Need to Know
Self-regulation skills develop gradually, and there are ways to help your child improve. This article discusses working on self-awareness, impulse control, and goal-setting to help your child learn to self-regulate.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exercising My Brain
This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Connect: Serendipity
At the end of this activity, students will understand that life is full of opportunities-sometimes unplanned-that we should embrace as part of the learning process.