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Curated OER

War Poetry, Journals and Letters: Viet Nam

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Examine letters written during war-time. In this cross curricular history and English instructional activity, middle and high school scholars read letters and poems written by soldiers in the Vietnam war. They will examine the...
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Organizer
School District No. 71

Adding Written Detail: Using Jane Yolen’s Owl Moon as a Mentor Text

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Access your senses with a worksheet on sensory language. Based on Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, the worksheet prompts kids to find examples of each of the five senses, as well as phrases for inner emotion. 
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Lesson Plan
Bully Free Systems

Bully Free Lesson Plans—Eighth Grade

For Teachers 8th Standards
Middle schoolers are likely very familiar with the concept of bullying and cliques. Discuss their experiences and brainstorm ways to handle peer conflict and feelings of exclusion with a poem that focuses on bullying, and a second lesson...
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Lesson Plan
National WWII Museum

“My Dear Little Boys…” Interpreting a letter home from the war

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Letters have long been prized by historians as primary sources for what they reveal not only about events but also about the emotional responses of the writers to these events. "My Dear Little Boys," a letter written by Leonard Isacks on...
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Unit Plan
Kenan Fellows

Unit 4: The Brain

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Drugs interact with the brain to alter moods, emotions, and behaviors by changing the brain's chemistry, perceptions, and interactions. The final lesson in the Pharmacology unit shows scholars experiments, has them complete four labs,...
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Lesson Plan
Ken Taylor

The Stones: Guilty or Not Guilty?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young drama pupils will perform a number of expressive speaking exercises as they consider the themes of responsibility, consequences, and justice in the very modern Australian play The Stones. With a lot of role playing and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

On 'Punched Out': Looking at Brain Trauma and Other Risks of Violent Sports

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The tragic story of Derek Boogard, a hockey star whose sports-related brain injuries eventually lead to his death, is told through a series of videos. There are also articles that can be read. This poignant lesson gets participants to...
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Curated OER

Preparing for High School and Beyond

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders might be intimidated about going to high school and they may not think they'll ever go to college. Ease those fears while making college readiness an eighth grade reality. In teams, pupils fill out several worksheets while...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Close Reading of Nasreen's Secret School: How Do People Access Books in Afghanistan?

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders continue to practice the close reading skills of capturing the gist and reading again for important details in the sixth instructional activity in a larger unit. This is a great beginning-of-the-year unit for establishing...
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Activity
Novelinks

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Writing Response

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Prior to reading chapter 15 of the book, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, examine the painting, Shipwrecked by Edward Moran, and respond to the feelings that arise within and how it relates to the characters of the novel. 
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Unit Plan
Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Educational Service District

4th Grade Personal Narrative

For Students 4th Standards
Throughout 10 lessons, fourth graders learn how to plan, organize, write, and edit their own personal narratives. In the beginning, young writers come up with ideas of personal experiences and the emotions linked with those experiences....
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Elegy for Lincoln: Walt Whitman’s Poem

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" is one of the most famous and emotional tributes to Abraham Lincoln. Guide readers through the evocative elegy with a reading comprehension instructional activity, complete with the poem's text and...
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PPT
Pearson

Non-Action Verbs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A verb is something you do — but can you always see the action? Use a slideshow presentation to clarify the differences between verbs that describe actions, and verbs that describe senses, preferences, and emotions.
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Printables
PACER Center

Kids Against Bullying Classroom Activity Book

For Students K - 5th
Have class members take the pledge against bullying! Use the eight-page packet during a bullying unit to reinforce the importance of sticking up for others, thinking about what might hurt others' feelings, and ways to prevent bullying.
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Unit Plan
Massachusetts Department of Education

Nostalgia

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
To prepare for crafting their own memoir, class members examine poetry by Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Robert Hayden, and Claude McKay, stories by Richard Rodriquez and Willa Cather, and Barry Levinson's film Avalon. They examine how...
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Professional Doc
American Psychological Association

Teaching Is Fundamental

For Teachers K - 12th
It's important for teachers to have a strong support system—especially in the first few years of their career. Help teachers' partners, spouses, and friends understand the most compassionate ways to provide emotional support with a...
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Activity
Novelinks

Words by Heart: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Sad, depressed, miserable, inconsolable, forlorn: so many synonyms have a lot of variety with their connotations. Through the guided imagery activity, writers explore the use of connotation and its influence on imagery and description by...
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Activity
Novelinks

Zach’s Lie: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Close your eyes and picture a time where you decided to tell the truth to someone. What were you wearing? How did you feel? Such prompts begin a guided imagery activity for Zach's Lie. Directions for creating an environment conducive to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Friendship Masks

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the concept of friendship and how it is developed and based upon some different emotions. They examine samples of masks that display emotional responses. Then students have class discussion about emotions and the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Kid's Worksheet on Fear

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this emotions and feelings worksheet, students define the emotion of fear. Students then complete several activities to help them understand fear.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Poetry Archive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover how to express their feeling poetically. In this poetry instructional activity, students discuss their feelings, descriptive language to describe these feelings, and create poems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grade 10 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders propose strategies for enhancing and maintaining emotional health and well-being encourage respect for others.
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Curated OER

Hostages

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students create interpretive drawings and movements based upon the emotion in the poem.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes Show It

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students use art to express emotion.  In this visual arts lesson, students explore the use of various colors and shapes in an effort to express emotions displayed in the Twelve Labors of Hercules.  Students use the computer program...

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