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Feeling Flashbacks

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate feelings with their class.  In this feelings lesson, students mingle with their class and share a specific personal feeling with a random student.  Students record their experience in their journal.
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"All About Me" Posters

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover themselves by creating a poster to present the class.  In this personal habits lesson, 3rd graders identify characteristics that make them unique and explore goals they wish to accomplish.  Students create...
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Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet: How To Deal With Bullies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore human behavior by reading a children's story in class. In this bullying lesson, students read the story Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet by Catherine Depino. Students answer study questions about the story and...
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Sexual Exploitation: Assault Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate personal health by answering a list of study questions. In this sexual assault lesson, students identify the types of situations which may lead to exploitation, assault or rape and discuss ways to limit their contact...
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Stories That Grow on Trees

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students write their own choose-a-plot book. They develop skills in creating plot structure and think through a logical line of story action. They invent characters with striking physical and psychological attributes.
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The Story of Magic: Centuries of Deception

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners examine the history of magic and the men and women who practice the art. The Story of Magic would be useful for classes on Religion, Culture, Mythology, Physics and Psychology. It is appropriate for middle school and high school.
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Confusing Colors!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders collect data, graph their data, and then make predictions based upon their findings. They's interest is maintained by the interesting way the data is collected. The data collection experiment is from the psychology work of...
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Moral Development and Gender

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students participate in a class discussion about moral development based on Kohlberg's and Gilligan's moral orientations.
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Effective Parent/Student/Teacher Communication

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders engage in a instructional activity which address the concerns and issues around new 6th grade students arriving at middle school. They, parents and teachers use this strategy to effectuate good communication.
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Human Factors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the psychological effects of living in space. They esign the houses and interior of a space settlement, make decisions about the running of a space settlement, and explore the human factors involved in space colonization.
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Spirituals

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the significance in the Negro spirituals concerning the Underground Railroad. They explore the cultural, geographical, historical, physical, and Psychological aspects involved in the Underground Railroad
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Communication: Saying No

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read about psychology by identifying uncomfortable teenage situations. In this sexual awareness lesson, students read assigned text which discusses the importance of saying "no" when you are in a hostile or uncomfortable...
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Challenging Yourself

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars design a one-day challenge, try to do it, and then write about it. It could be giving up sweets, going for a three-mile run or being nicer to a sibling. They compose a writing piece describing their experience from taking...
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Boundaries

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify and analyze the boundaries which exist between urban and rural, wildness and country and among rural areas, country, town, and city. Students actively participate in planning, obtaining materials, setting goals and...
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Science: The Purloined Letter

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine Edgar Allan Poe's "the Purloined Letter" from the perspective of a profiler. To sharpen search procedures, they examine the text and make lists of items and places in the house that were searched. Then students discuss...
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Coping With Divorce

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about what causes stress for students when their parents divorce, how students of different ages respond differently to divorce, and strategies that can help all family members cope.
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Watershed Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to the concepts of a watershed, stream flow and water quality. This five-day plan is an excellent way to introduce students to the concepts involved. They create their own watershed using a paper bag, water and...
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Everybody Is Unique: A Lesson in Respect for Others' Differences

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners of all ages talk about the meaning of the word "unique," and draw a truly unique person, one part at a time. They create a totally unique person, with a head drawn by one student, a torso drawn by another student, and lower body...
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The Exploration of the Writer, His Louisiana History And the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman By Ernest J. Faines

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students identify the significance of the author's experiences on his written work; describe the hardships faced by slaves and plantation owners once the caves were set free; explain the role of the Seceses and why they were a threat to...
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Keep Your Eye On the Prize

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers learn about citizens who were actively involved in the civil rights movement, and the strategies they used to overcome the Jim Crow laws that were so prevalent in the 1960s. They investigate the voting amendments of the US...
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Survival: The Human Body in Extreme Environments

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students name and describe the major systems that work together as a unity to monitor and regulate the human body as it goes about its business of securing the essential requirements for life. They identify specific human features and/or...
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POWs

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Why did Vietnam POWs and their families receive more media attention than POWs in previous wars?  To answer this question, class members view artifacts, read articles, and engage in class discussion. Individuals then assume the voice of...
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Empowered Barbie

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners access prior knowledge of vocabulary on feminism and psychoanalytic theory, and gender schema.  In this Empowered Barbie lesson, students recreate a Barbie doll.  Learners write a reflection on how they changed Barbie's body and...
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Investigating the Harlem Renaissance

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The work of Langston Hughes opens the door to research into the origin and legacy of the Harlem Renaissance and how the literature of the period can be viewed as a commentary on race relations in America. In addition, groups are assigned...

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