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Anonymous Card Delivery
Young scholars brainstorm a list of people who would benefit from an anonymous card. They then make the card and deliver it. A journal will be created by them to record their feelings of how they felt doing this act and expecting...
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Growing a Lawn
Learners research plant growth. In this plant growth lesson, students explore the needs of plants. Learners compare and contrast grass and broadleaf plants and grow a miniature lawn in a cup of soil. Resources are provided.
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Philanthropic Behavior/ Cooperative Learning
Students increase listening comprehension and use critical thinking skills to make a picture. In this philanthropic behavior lesson plan, students draw pictures in three parts. Each part is drawn by another students. Students share their...
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Sharing is Caring
Students explore the concepts of sharing and good citizenship. They demonstrate reading comprehension skills including inference, literal meaning and critical analysis.
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What I Really Care About
Fourth graders explore the concept of values and apply it to what they think is important. Different situations are analyzed to see if their values are maintained.
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Courageous Voices that Shook the Nation to Action
Learners study Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. In this Martin Luther King, Jr. day lesson plan, students learn about the holiday for Dr. King through literature and music. Learners learn the lyrics to Stevie Wonder's 'Happy Birthday'...
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Mental Health 2: Bedlam
Young scholars are oriented to the kinds of treatment and care the mentally ill received prior to the 19th century-using the example of England's legendary Bedlam, the world's oldest mental health asylum.
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Valentine's Day
Students participate in a gardening activity to learn about the growth process and how to show care. In this garden care lesson, students discuss Valentine's Day poems for words of kindness. Students read a poem about a garden of love...
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Hatching Chickens
Students explain the importance of carefully observing and caring for eggs and chickens in the classroom.
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Human Rights
Students explore human rights, kindness and equality. Through a series of lesson plans included in this unit, students discover how to create a caring school climate. They read stories, write in journals, role play equality and kindness...
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Positively Paper
Learners discover that all paper is recycled the same way, and that some paper requires complex chemical treatments before it can be made into usable recycled paper. They see that we must choose what kinds of paper minimize environmental...
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth
In this animal safety lesson, students brain-storm ways to be kind and safe with animals throughout the year. Students create a Kind Calendar for Animals in art class and distribute copies to other classes in the school. grocery stores,...
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MLK Eggs
Students examine brown and white eggs to represent how people are all the same on the inside. In this character education instructional activity, students view two kinds of eggs and examine them closely to determine if one egg is the...
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Alphabody's ABC of Giving
Pupils brainstorm words about giving/kindness that begin with each letter of the alphabet. In this alphabet giving lesson, students bend into the shape of the letters and act out their giving words. Suggested words are included in the...
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Thiebaud Cake Math: Elementary
Learners explore the American artist Wayne Thiebaud. They practice addition, subtraction, fractions, money problems, and classification problems by carefully examining his painting entitled Cakes. They create a bold cake painting.
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Learning to Love
Students discuss the different kinds of love and the characteristics of a healthy relationship. They examine types of behaviors that could make a relationship unhealthy and name components of love. They evaluate their current...
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Growing Native Plants From Seed
Second graders plant seeds of native plants. They study the concepts of native plants, where they grow, how they grow, and why they are so special. They assess long term care monitoring the seedlings as they grow and write the name...
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Dogfighting Hurts Animals
Students discuss dogfights and relate caring for a baby to caring for their animal. In this dogfighting lesson, students view video about dogs forced to fight and relate to parenting skills. Students become familiar with ways to help...
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Dig It Up
Students participate in an archaeological excavation to determine how archeologists make inferences about various cultures. They reconstruct the site using layers of drawings. They discuss the kinds of information they learned.
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Halloween 2
Students listen carefully to songs and identify specific things. They demonstrate knowledge of songs by sing- along with class.
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Stream Watch
Students discuss why it is important to take care of streams, what is non-point source and point source pollution, what are some causes of pollution in streams, and what can we do to prevent some of these causes of pollution? They steam...
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John Muir Nature Journal
Students explain how John Muir carefully and quietly observed nature and record his observations in his journal with writings and drawings. Students create their own nature observation journal.
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Science in the News
Young scholars explore science in the news through articles, magazines, and internet news sites. They select articles, read them and summarize them to identify the audience that would care about their topics. As they present their...
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Help! There Are Too Many Dogs and Cats and Not Enough Homes!
Students discuss the importance of spaying and neutering pets. For this animal care lesson, students create a make believe animal shelter. They discuss what happens to animals in the shelter and if no one wants to take them home.