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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Sweet Memories of a Grandfather: Carly's Story

For Students 3rd - 8th
Carly found a sweet way to remember her grandfather, who died from cancer. Read the article and watch the slideshow to see what Carly and her sister did.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Cdc): Bam! Body and Mind

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Multiple teacher resources are provided to help students make healthier lifestyle choices.
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Article
Curated OER

Kidshealth: Teaching Your Child Self Control

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In order for a child to be successful some degree of self control is necessary. This site looks at how children can develop self control and how an adult should react if a child is demonstrates a lack of control.
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sandy Hook Promise: Start With Hello: Educator Guides

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Start With Hello asks students, educators, parents, and other community leaders who interact with children to take steps in class, the lunchroom and/or on the bus to be inclusive and connected. This easy-to-use guide is designed to...
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Article
Other

A Look at Stress Are There Positive Effects?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks about how stress in our lives can be positive and how we all experience stress at one time or another.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Makes a Good Life? Lessons From the Longest Study on Happiness

For Students 9th - 10th
As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical,...
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Website
Other

Eq Institute: Respect

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains that respect can be shown as a result of many different things. This site breaks down respect and explains everything from how it's caused to why it's important.
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Article
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Aaas: Self Control Comes in Limited Quantities, Must Be Replenished

For Students 9th - 10th
To deter addiction, some people are able to replenish the amount of self-control they possess. Theories are presented in this web-article that suggest that upon applying self control during a difficult situation, an individual is less...
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Website
Other

Children Now: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues: 10 Helpful Tips

For Students 9th - 10th
Parents are encouraged to talk with learners about challenging subjects like sex, violence, and alcohol. Topics included are the 10 tips for talking with kids about tough issues.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Summer at the Polka Dot Cafe

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Alice who finds help in dealing with her parent's divorce. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Can We Cultivate Our Own Happiness

For Students 7th - 8th
Martin Seligman coined the term "positive psychology" to describe his exploration of how people can improve their own happiness. In this report from 2002, ABC News explains Seligman's research and findings in the field of positive...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Ethics of Drug Induced Happiness

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a six-question quiz on the ethics of drug-induced happiness based on the passage "The Ethics of Drug-Induced Happiness."
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How Do I Deal With Frustration in a Positive Way?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Working through our frustration can help us grow our brains and it's also perfectly normal to get frustrated! This article explains four suggested steps for dealing with frustration.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Transform My Mistakes and Grow!

For Students 3rd - 8th
To come up with a plan on how to transform our mistakes into opportunities to grow our brains, this article explains three categories of mistakes and how you can overcome them.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Final Student Activity

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Growth Mindset Activities are designed to help your students build growth mindsets and develop learning strategies to start the school year strong. This is the final activity to help you remember what you learned and help your...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Exercising My Brain

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Harmful Too

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article explains three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, and how we react to them can be either harmful or helpful. Listen as kids discuss their experiences with mistakes.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Printable Thankful Time Notes

For Students Pre-K - K
These notes are a great way to show thanks and appreciation for the special people in your students' lives.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Learn: Mistakes Are Opportunities

For Students 9th - 10th
This article covers three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reflect: Mistakes Are Opportunities

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes three types of mistakes and some strategies for transforming them into opportunities to grow your brain. Reflection questions are included.
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Lesson Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Recognizing Propaganda: Loaded Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan designed for consumer health class, that is also useful for media literacy. Contains a link to an ad for an abdominal strengthening machine that provides the basis of the lesson. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources
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Website
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Diseases of the Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
A virtual exhibit to expose the early history of psychiatry in the United States through the year 1900.

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