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Expressing Anger

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students distinguish among the different styles of anger. In this psychology lesson, students evaluate their personal style of anger and its effectiveness. They brainstorm ways to control it.
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Conflict and Communication

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils brainstorm the common causes of conflict. For this psychology lesson, students discuss effective ways to respond to conflict situations. They evaluate how they communicate their wants and needs to others.
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Man's Search For Meaning: Concept Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Designed as a resource for teachers who use Man's Search for Meaning, this seven-page packet includes a list of related informational texts, research issues and project ideas, central questions, background information on World War II and...
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Solve a Problem: Build a Boat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners build a boat that float and hold as many pennies as possible, then discuss the process of building the boat and relate the experience to experiences they encounter in life.
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Survivor Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners discover competition and trickery by participating in a class game. They participate in a role-playing game called "Survivor" in which students utilize critical thinking skills to identify who is the "Bad Guy." Students win the...
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Dangers of Labeling and Stereotyping

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The content of this lesson is intended for a mature group. Participants imagine that they must decide which eight of fourteen people on a doomed cruise ship will be allowed to board the only life boat and survive. A list of passengers...
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Supporting Opinions: Handling the End of a Friendship

For Students 7th - 11th
Four thought-provoking questions encourage readers to develop and support their opinions about strategies to end a friendship after exploring excerpts from a New York Times article. The reading is brief so this could be a lead-in to...
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Writing
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Positive Experiences

For Students 5th - 12th
Ask your learners to reflect and write with this worksheet. This activity asks pupils to write about positive experiences - times when they have displayed positive qualities such as courage, kindness, wisdom, and determination. This...
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Writing
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Values Clarification

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
From 34 possibilities (and two blanks for other options), class members choose their top 10 values and rank them in ascending order to focus attention on what they want to prioritize in life. To the list, I'd add "service to others" and...
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Depression: Behavioral Activation

For Students 9th - 12th
Self-awareness is an important life skill. Not intended to replace treatment for clinical depression, this sheet offers class members a chance to identify activities they enjoy and responsibilities they have, and a chart to record how...
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Setting Life Goals

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
By filling in this chart, participants identify in what ways they are successful, where they need to improve, and what their goals are in 6 areas of life ranging from family and friends to body and spirituality. 
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Countering Anxiety

For Students 9th - 12th
Strengthen life skills with practice reframing anxious thoughts. First, learners develop rational counter-statements to provided anxiety-producing thoughts. Then they extend the skill to identify and reframe anxiety-producing thoughts of...
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Organizer
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Countering Negative Thoughts

For Students 8th - 12th
Encourage your class to think positively! In order to counter negative thoughts, it can be useful to think of rational and positive counter statements. This worksheet asks learners to read a few negative thoughts and practice countering...
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Thought Log: Correcting Harmful Thoughts

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
A thought log helps people track daily events, their (possibly harmful) internal reactions, and the consequences and behaviors they experience in response to their own thoughts. The last column of the chart provides space to conceive...
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The Concept of Identity Lesson 5: Motivation - Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs provides the lens class members use to analyze and evaluate the motivations of the characters in Sylvia Plath's "Initiation" and scenes from Mean Girls. Readers then select a character from A Separate...
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Printables
PBIS World

Referral to Behavior Specialist

For Teachers K - 5th
Enhance the communication between professionals with a behavior specialist referral form. With fields that address parental concerns, previous interventions, and services requested, the form is a great resource for helping kids be...
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Handout
Oregon Department of Education

Habits of Mind

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
There is more than one way to approach a problem. Explore the habits of mind as they relate to the methods of approaching learning, and to how young writers can develop success once they learn to foster each skill.
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The 16 Habits of Mind

For Students 6th - 12th
Which of Costa's 16 Habit of Mind best describes you? Take a short assessment to see which quality is most consistently like you, or which quality is not like you at all. 
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Autism Speaks

Tips for working with participants with Autism

For Teachers K - 12th
Everyday life can be overwhelming for a student with autism spectrum disorder. An informative presentation guides teachers through definitions of common attributes associated with autism, as well as ways to meet sensory needs to...
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Development Quiz

For Students Higher Ed
In this social psychology worksheet, students complete a 10 item multiple choice quiz on the physical and moral developmental stages of humans.
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Thai Children's Trust: Drop-In Center

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Learners examine a case history of a street kid in Thailand. In this case history lesson students explore the reasons children end up living on the streets. The references in the lesson are to The UN Conventions of The Right of a Child.
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Group Rules and Expectations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore psychology by participating in a student behavior activity. In this group dynamic lesson, students identify ways to keep several young scholars interested and focused on one task. Students complete worksheets...
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Decision Making and Teen Parenthood

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students analyze psychology by completing worksheets in class. In this decision making lesson, students identify the important choices they will need to make as they enter adulthood and discuss appropriate methods to communicating with...
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Health: Media and Body Image

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the influence of advertisements on body image and purchasing. They discuss the psychology behind the ads and working in groups cut out words in magazine advertisements that could entice them to buy the product. ...

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