Scholastic
Scholastic: Building Bridges of Friendship
Learn how to build better friendships when you explore this resource. This site provides detailed games, activities, and other resources to help young scholars learn about the importance of building relationships.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Making the Connection
Graph theory is a visual way to represent relationships between objects. One of the simplest uses of graph theory is a family tree that shows how different people are related. Another application is social networks like Facebook, where a...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Being Friends
There are certain things you must do in order to be a good friend. Find a list of these things at this website as well as questions and activity ideas that will help you discuss friendship with classmates and family.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Friendship
[Free Registration/Login Required] Kindergarten - Character Education Integration
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Go Luna: Around the World
Travel around the world with this collection of activities from Let's Go Luna! From making postcards and present tags to dressing up your favorite characters in winter outfits, your child will be introduced to social-emotional and social...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Arts and Craft
Join Daniel Tiger and his friends in this collection of fun, printable activities! From creating puppets and Kindness Loops (just like in the show!) to making thoughtful cards for friends, these worksheets will encourage your child's...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Clifford the Big Red Dog: Buried Treasures
In "Red Beard the Pirate," Tucker loses his beloved Lil' Squeakie after the friends spend the day burying treasures in the sand. Clifford and Emily Elizabeth make it their mission to find Tucker's treasured toy before bedtime, however,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on topic,...
Other
I*earn (International Education and Resource Network)
This nonprofit organization creates structured projects that facilitate engaged learning and youth making a difference on an International scale. Project areas include interdisciplinary topics such as the environment/science,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet
Students explore how patterns and contrasts in language (diction, imagery, figurative language) reveal central ideas in texts and develop various motifs (light vs. dark, dreams vs. reality, high vs. low, etc.) in Romeo and Juliet. They...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 9-11) to pair with the novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie are two migrant workers trying to stay employed and out of trouble. Their dream of having their own farm may be...
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Lion and the Mouse"
Read this traditional fable of "The Lion and the Mouse" to learn that even little friends can do great things. Two illustrated versions are provided. Both include the same text, but one has traditional illustrations while the other has...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Sahara Special" by Esme Raji Codell
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "Sahara Special" by Esme Raji Codell. Sahara Special is the story of Sahara Jones's 5th grade school year and the struggles she overcomes to make friends and reach her potential as...
Other
Goodnight Stories: The Walk
A combination of words and pictures creates a story about a little girl who takes a walk and ends up making friends with a little bird.
Other
Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web
This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Book Files: Bridge to Terabithia [Pdf]
"Bridge to Terabithia", a Newbery Award winner by Katherine Paterson is a contemporary novel of friendship, accepting differences, giving, imagination, and caring for others. Friends, Jess and Leslie live in rural Virginia community....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Discussion Guide: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by James Boyne
Bruno is only nine years old when his father, a commandant in Hitler's army, is transferred from Berlin to Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The house at "Out-With," as Bruno calls it, is small, dark, and strange. He spends long days...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Falwell v Flynt Trial (1984)
Asked about his first sexual experience by an interviewer, Reverend Jerry Falwell said, "I never really expected to make it with Mom, but then after she showed all the other guys in town such a good time, I thought 'What the hell!'"...