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Activity
Teaching Tolerance

Identity Artifacts Museum

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Who are you? It's a simple question, but younger learners have the opportunity to express their complex identities by making artifacts that represent parts of their identities. After engaging in the activity, they share who they are with...
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

Keep Finding the Positive

For Teachers 5th Standards
Group members take on roles to create a positive classroom community. Learners perform their role—leader, recorder, presenter, timekeeper, encourager, and collector—in preparation for a formal presentation of their positive thinking...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I Like Me and I Like You

For Teachers K - 4th
Students use the book "I Like Me!" to create a context for investigating self-concept (how one feels about self). They have the objective of realizing their rights and responsibilities. Students work in small groups conducting interviews...
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Unit Plan
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Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment

Morals, Values and Beliefs

For Teachers 8th
Your personality is based on the things you believe in, the morals you abide by, and the values upon which you make your decisions. Delve into a set of lessons about values and moral framework with your eighth graders as they explore and...
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Facing History and Ourselves

The Costs and Benefits of Belonging

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Peer pressure and the desire for acceptance are powerful things. A thought-provoking lesson looks at the positive and negative effects of wanting to belong to a group. Class members examine the roles of the perpetrator, the victim, the...
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Lesson Plan
Anti-Defamation League

Dolls Are Us

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Representation matters! A lesson examines the looks of dolls and discusses whether the design is inclusive or not. Scholars create a paper doll representing a characteristic about themselves or highlights another diverse quality....
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

Juggling New Opportunities

For Teachers 9th
Life is like trying to juggle three tennis balls! That's the big idea in a lesson that asks freshmen to consider that sometimes juggling the areas of their lives (social/emotion, academic, and career) runs smoothly and sometimes not so...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Personal/Social Development: My Interests

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils examine the influence of a positive self-concept. They identify and assess their own personal interests on an Internet Interest Profiler, and match occupations that fit their profile.
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Unit Plan
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Florida Department of Health

Exploring Healthy Relationships Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A four-lesson unit on healthy relationships begins by helping individuals develop a positive sense of self-worth by identifying their own positive characteristics. Participants also examine data from the YRBS Online Tool about the...
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Health Smart Virginia

Compliment a Character

For Teachers 6th
Compliments are true, specific, and positive. Crafting those compliments can be a challenge. Graciously accepting a compliment can also be a challenge. The first lesson in the Health Smart series designed for sixth graders provides them...
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Lesson Plan
Project B.A.S.I.C. Child Development Specialist and Child Care Consultation

Better Attitudes and Skills in Children

For Teachers K - 3rd
Little kids often have very big feelings, and need help expressing them. A set of social emotional lessons provide tangible ways for young elementary learners to visualize their emotions, focus on clear communication, and channel their...
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Lesson Plan
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Health Smart Virginia

Mental and Emotional Health

For Teachers 6th
Working in groups, sixth-graders identify internal factors that negatively impact them. Then, explain how they could change that factor into a positive influence. Finally, individuals create personal mind maps that identify their...
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Activity
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Facing History and Ourselves

Dual Identities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Many of us have multiple identities. There's who we are at home, school, friends, and strangers. And often these identities come with different names. The third activity in the First Days of School series examines how names reflect...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Character Development Through Song

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use songs to analyze their sense of identity and self-worth. In groups, they discuss and explore their own character development and discover how far they have come in recent years. They also identify the positive and...
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

Life … Bring It On!

For Teachers 8th
To conclude the study of coping skills, class members create a collage that identifies and celebrates their strengths that support their ability to make good decisions.
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

Lean Mean Coping Machine!

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are asked to choose and rank five scenarios from a list of ten that are most important to them. After explaining the reasons for the choices, they then identify the coping skills they used to make their decisions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Three Wishes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make three wishes in order to help them decide what is important to them and compare it to what is important to others.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore bullying and positive self concept with Molly Lou Melon. In this Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon lesson, students determines the main idea and essential message from text.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I Am Unique

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars list their unique characteristics. They interact in a positive manner in a group setting by determining and discussing each individual's uniqueness.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Parenting Readiness

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students identify parenting styles, including positive guidance techniques that help children develop positive self-concepts, self-management, and responsibility. They emphasize the differences between and the importance of motherhood...
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Unit Plan
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Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment

Managing Change

For Teachers 8th
Adolescence and teenage years are very difficult in terms of emotions, primarily due to the amount of change going on in growing teens' lives. Guide middle schoolers through disruptive changes and transitions with a set of activities...
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Lesson Plan
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Facebook

Respect and Boundaries

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Respect is a must-have in healthy relationships! Pupils explore their boundaries and identify the elements of respect during a lesson from a library of digital citizenship activities. The teacher's resource section contains a printable...
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Lesson Plan
Little Stones

How Can Poetry Make People Think and Care?

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Can beautiful words change the world? Literary scholars discover how to paint their visions of change using poetry in a series of three workshops. Each independent topic gives participants a chance to examine their feelings about...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Take a Look in the Mirror: What Do You See?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine their perceptions of themselves. In this personal health lesson, students participate in a classroom activity that requires them to describe themselves and share those descriptions with their classmates. Learners also...