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Managing Conflicts
Twelfth graders review "Managing Conflicts" worksheet. They role-play as a practice opportunity for solving conflicts and examine problems and proposed solutions from multiple perspectives. They assess costs, benefits and other...
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What Is Important to Me?
Students respond to prompt with awareness of personal value of possessions. They list the criteria used to determine worth and value. They listen and ask questions or add comments and check their own measures of value with those the...
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Team Players
Students examine a school to career website. They collect and collate data about careers from their own data collection. They determine which skills and abilities ensure successful teamwork. They research two careers that they come...
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Accentuate the Positive
Students analyze the attitudes, ideas and beliefs of characteristics that
assist humans in living a positive, proactive life that values self,
family, community, nation and world. Students identify their own strengths as individual....
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Create a Career Flyer
Students discuss as a class the many different careers and their positive and negative attributes. They create a tri-fold flyer which highlights positive aspects of the career in an artistic and visually interesting way. They highlight...
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Smoking: Grades K-2
Students navigate websites to discover the reasons not to smoke. In this smoking lesson plan, students research and answer questions about the bad effects of smoking.
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Sleep
Students examine sleeping habits. In this sleep lesson plan, students examine their sleeping patterns and create a log. Students illustrate their dreams and create a plan to improve sleep patterns.
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Bullying
First graders learn healthy ways to express their feelings, needs and wants. In this bullying lesson, 1st graders read A Bad Case of the Stripes, discuss why the main character is getting bullied, dicuss why it's okay to be different...
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Small Group Counseling
Students participate in small group counseling sessions to solve a common issue. As a class, they define anger and note the characteristics of the warning signs. They discuss different ways of dealing with their anger and how to use...
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Million Dollar Machine
Learners explore their self-awareness. They discuss the words unique, extraordinary and irreplaceable and their strengths and weaknesses. They write five things their bodies or Million Dollar Machines can do and investigate their blood...
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Suicide and Depression
Eighth graders research suicide and depression in teens. They are given an essential research question then create focus questions of their own before conducting their research. Using the Internet, they find answers to their questions...
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Conflict Resolution
Students demonstrate conflict resolution skills. In this character education lesson plan, students read the book Oh, Bother! Someone's Fighting! and sing a song which models a conflict resolution strategy.
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Sticks and Stones
Second graders discuss bullying and list ways on how they can help reduce bullying amongst their peers. In this bullying lesson plan, 2nd graders also reflect on their own experiences and write journal entries about them.
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Drugs
Young scholars investigate drugs by identifying which ones are illegal and potentially harmful. In this medicine lesson, students complete worksheets in which they role play situations where they have found or ingested drugs and decide...
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True Friends
Fourth graders examine qualities of friendship. In this friendship lesson, 4th graders investigate responsible decisions and healthy relationships. Students will role-play relationship situations.
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Youth Gambling Addiction
Students demonstrate how to say no to gambling. In this addiction prevention lesson, students define gambling and categories of gamblers, then practice saying no to gambling. Then, students work in small groups to role-play a gambling...
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Personal Development (Child Abuse Prevention)
Learners define several types of abuse, including sexual, physical, and emotional abuse or neglect. They recognize signs of abusive situations and describe the potential consequences of abuse
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Interview a Professional: Marine Mammal Rescue
Students choose a career featured on the school to career website. They research the career and email an expert in the field of their choice. They answer a series of questions and write a written report on their findings and present...
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Promoting Self-Esteem Through Positive Interaction
Use a strong student/teacher relationship to foster a trusting environment.
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Going to the Doctor
Fifth graders discuss reasons for going to the doctor. In this doctor's visit lesson, 5th graders read a chapter from the text and complete a checkup word search to match definitions and terms. Students answer questions at the end of the...
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Dances of Mexico and the U.S.
Fifth graders experience cultures of Mexico through music and dance while showing the ability to others and their boundaries. They research cultures through music and dance. They perform a dance from each country.
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Twisted Love: Dating Violence Exposed
Students watch and discuss a video that addresses the topic of dating violence. They view the video, answer discussion questions, take a quiz that evaluates their dating violence I.Q., and identify early warning signs of relationship abuse.
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Stay in School
Tenth graders explore the consequences of not taking responsibility for their own development.