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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ad Busting

For Students 9th - 10th
Debunk advertising myths by creating an opposing image. First, find an ad with a persuasive and emotional pull. Once you have identified the message, create a counter-advertisement that shows the opposite message. For example, if an ad...
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Lesson Plan
HealthTeacher

Get More Sleep

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Help learners identify habits that interfere with sleep and to understand the importance of adequate rest and its impact on not only physical health, but also emotional wellbeing.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

How To Demystify Mythology for Your Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use visual aids and live performances to help connect ancient myths to human emotions.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Exploring the Theme of Forgiveness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help teens explore complex emotions through the true stories of historic and contemporary people.
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Lesson Plan
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Curated OER

Advertising in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Persuasive Texts

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Beginning a persuasive writing unit with your middle schoolers? Approach it through something that persuades us all: advertising! Through studying video and print advertisement, your class will practice Common Core skills for reading...
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Unit Plan
Santa Ana Unified School District

Getting to the Core: Early American Poets

For Teachers 11th Standards
How do poets convey emotion and represent their views of life? Pupils learn more about Whitman and Dickinson through the unit and analyze their bold reinvention of craft and style for poets to come. Looking at classic pieces such as...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

8th Grade Writing - Motivation, Organization and Emotion

For Teachers 8th
Using relevant, current events with historic literature makes for great writing.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Jack-O-Happy

For Students K - 3rd
For this showing feelings worksheet, students read a poem about emotions and draw happy, sad, scared, mad, silly, and glad faces on the pumpkins. Students draw 6 pictures.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Books that Make You Think, Books that Make You Feel

For Students 8th - 12th
In this book analysis worksheet, students discover how challenging novels affected other students by reading those student's letters to the specific authors. Students are to read the excerpts and then discuss the emotions triggered...
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Writing Letters of Gratitude

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson begins with a discussion on gratitude—what does it mean, and for who are learners thankful? Scholars share their thoughts and feelings then choose a community worker to which they wish to share their gratitude. Writers compose a...
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Lesson Plan
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Health Smart Virginia

Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 5th
Peers discuss the importance of conflict resolution and share their thoughts with the rest of the class. The same partners then role-play a Peace Talk using a script. Finally, an exhilarating game of Sharks and Minnows allows scholars to...
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Lesson Plan
Health Smart Virginia

Keeping the Peace

For Teachers 3rd
A lesson examines ways young learners can keep the peace with conflict resolution. Scholars share a conflict then discuss the difference between conflicts and bullying. Pupils read scenarios and practice their negation skills.  
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Lesson Plan
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Health Smart Virginia

Communication

For Teachers 3rd
In preparation for a game in which they guess the type of communication used in a scenario, scholars examine and discuss the four types of communication: passive, aggressive, assertive, and passive-aggressive. Learners identify "I"...
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Unit Plan
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Equality and Human Rights Commission

Learning area 2: Challenging Stereotypes and Discrimination

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Six powerful and eyeopening lessons provide scholars with activities designed to challenge stereotypes and discrimination. The unit provides reading material with which pupils read and discuss. Grand conversations lead to physically...
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Activity
Amani Project

Harmony Break! Mood Shifting

For Parents 3rd - 8th
The fifth activity in the Amani Project series, another Harmony Break, has participants demonstrate a mood shift. They begin by drumming in a way that indicates their current feelings. They then model a change in mood by transitioning...
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Worksheet
Kids' Pages

Feelings Matching 1

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Even subtle differences in facial expressions can give us a glimpse into how others are feeling. Through this visual matching activity, youngsters work to correctly connect 16 feelings to their appropriate facial expressions.
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Activity
Thoughtful Learning

Using 5-5-5 Breathing to Calm Down

For Students K - 12th
Scholars calm their minds and bodies with a 5-5-5 breathing exercise. Learners breathe in for five seconds, out for five seconds, then wait five seconds to start again. The exercise takes one minute to complete. 
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Activity
Committee for Children

Students Learn to Stop Rumors Before They Start

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Two activities look at how rumors are spread and ways class members can stop them. The first activity brings forth an in-depth conversation about how reporters gather information to write articles and how students can implement the same...
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Activity
Committee for Children

Create a Positive Classroom Climate and Help Stop Bullying

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Encourage kindness and respect with an activity that challenges scholars to create a poster that details three ways to exhibit the desired character traits.
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Lesson Plan
Nemours KidsHealth

Peer Pressure: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Peer pressure is the focus of a lesson that challenges scholars to respond to several scenarios using responsible-decision making skills. Lesson one begins with a live-action example set by class members, followed by a discussion that...
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Worksheet
Teachers Pay Teachers

What Kind of Smart Are You

For Teachers K - 5th
Gain insight into the type of learners that fill your classroom. An eight-question survey asks scholars questions about themselves. Using their color-coded answers, they conclude their degree of intelligence in multiple areas—music,...
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Lesson Plan
Health Smart Virginia

Rule Development

For Teachers 3rd
A class discussion defines what it means to make the classroom a safe environment. To make their classroom safe, small groups work collaboratively to create a list of characteristics that make up successful learners. Groups share their...
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Lesson Plan
Health Smart Virginia

Self Image

For Teachers 2nd
A 14-slide presentation walks a class through a lesson on self-image. While responding to scenarios and answering questions thoughtfully, scholars use pictures to complete a worksheet that offers describing words, emphasizes their inner...
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Lesson Plan
California Department of Education

I Have “M.I.” Strengths!

For Teachers 6th Standards
Scholars complete an interest survey to discover their learning style. Based on their newfound knowledge, learners examine and discuss a list of careers that work best with their learning style.

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