American Psychological Association
A Silent National Crisis: Violence Against Teachers
School violence is becoming an epidemic in America. How can schools protect their teachers—and teach them how to protect their students? Read an important brochure about how violence affects teachers personally, emotionally, financially,...
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Grade 10 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)
Tenth graders propose strategies for enhancing and maintaining emotional health and well-being encourage respect for others.
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Grade 11 and 12 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)
Young scholars relate emotional health and well-being to personal productivity and to the workplace design, implement, assess, and evaluate a plan to promote personal, school, and community well-being
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Feelings
In this ESL feelings vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict emotions or feelings. Students match the pictures to the name of the emotion shown.
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Feelings
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict feelings or emotions. Students match these with the words that describe them.
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Communicating Feelings
Students demonstrate ways to communicate feelings. In this character education lesson, students talk about communication and are shown examples of faces showing different emotions. Students identify the emotion and practice communicating...
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Puberty and Growing Up - a workshop for youth
Students examine the changes that happen to the body during puberty. In this puberty and growing up lesson plan, students describe the basic physical changes that occur to the body during puberty. Students identify the physical changes...
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Using Words to Work Things Out
Young scholars study conflict resolution. In this conflict resolution lesson, students read a book about anger and watch a puppet skit about how to handle conflicts. Young scholars create their own puppet skit about conflict resolution.
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Sometimes I Feel Love
In this love emotion worksheet, students represent when they feel love by drawing a picture of something the love. Students then check the box for the feeling they like best of all. Their choices are happy, sad, anger, love, laughing,...
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Health: Emotional Effects of Segregation
Students examine the emotional effects that African Americans experienced in the 1960's and make a connection between segregation and racism. In this segregation lesson students divide into groups, discuss the movie then complete and...
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Using Words to Work Things Out
Students explore appropriate ways to communicate feelings. In this character development lesson, students listen to Hands are not for Hitting and several other books about expressing emotions appropriately. Students observe puppet...
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Summer Planning
Pupils benefit from teachers planning. In this teacher development activity, teachers use the CC! program during the summer to help with classroom management, student assessment and evaluations. Summer Planning Worksheet included.
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Eating Disorders: Grades 6-8
Raise awareness of eating disorders with a two-activity lesson with middle schoolers reading articles to gather background information and then create audio messages and advertisements that promote healthy self-esteem and body image.
Social Skills Central
Ready, Set, Respond!
When faced with a difficult situation, do you respond selfishly, face it head on, or ignore the problem? This game encourages learners to evaluate the wide range of reactions we can have to problematic situations, and how our responses...
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Fix the Problem!
People won't let me finish talking!...I hate the lunch room...Leave my name alone! Explore a variety of problems learners can face on a daily basis, and use this game to have pupils determine the best ways to answer those situations.
US Institute of Peace
Identifying Conflict Styles
Are you a peace-keeper or a problem-solver? Explore conflict management styles through a lesson, fourth in a 15-part series, that combines individual assessment and collaborative work. Groups learn the basic tendencies of each style,...
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Definition Poems
“Hope is a tissue, wiping away your problems and fears.” Use a Definition Poem Web worksheet to model for your class how to craft a free verse poem based on an emotion. After brainstorming topics, groups use the sheet to make comparisons...
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Response to War: How Do You Feel? What Do You Think?
The class discusses how they feel about war. They brainstorm emotions that teens have toward the war in Iraq, and then discuss their opinions of the war in small groups. The discussion is then opened up to the entire class. What do you...
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Intro to 9/11
Learners brainstorm facts that they can recall about 9/11 using a word web of the 5w's/ They create a book in pairs of 9/11 making a page for one fact they comprehend and one thing that they wonder about. Students listen to songs about...
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Figuring Solutions
Students discuss their attitudes and feelings to discover possible ways to constructive respond to their resistance to learning academic concepts.
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Language Arts: Lewin Project
Fourth graders read and respond to the poem, "When I Am Angry." They complete surveys by analyzing the most common feeling and draw a bar graph of their behavior, using different colors to identify the duration of various feelings. ...
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Conflict Resolution - Dealing With Anger
Students summarize the types of conflictual relationships associated with important health related outcomes. They deduce typical conflict resolving methods. They select a preferred conflict resolving style. They role-play a situation and...
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Football Manager 2011 - Use of English
For this computer games worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences and write an essay about advantages and disadvantages of computer games. Students complete 2 tasks.
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Feelings: Grades K-2
Students explore how to appropriately deal with their feelings. In this personal health activity on feelings, students participate in a group discussion about feelings, and complete two activities writing about their feelings and...