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Building Bridges to Others
Practice communication skills in order to make meaningful connections to others. Through studying effective communication, kids make meaningful relationships that can affect the community in a positive way.
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Compliment Tickets
Fifth graders complete activities to learn about giving and receiving compliments. In this compliment lesson, 5th graders receive compliments from their teacher. Students receive tickets when they get a compliment and then give a...
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ESL Network: Tezen, A Haitian Folktale
Sixth graders brainstorm various types of friendships prior to reading "Tezen," a tale about a young girl's friendship with a fish. After writing story reviews, they work in small groups to create dramatic skits based on the text and...
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Magnificent Mexico
Students complete a variety of activities in a unit about the art, culture, and traditions of Mexico. They read books about the Day of the Dead, create a skeleton puppet, and create a traditional Mexican tissue paper cutting. Students...
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Using Art to Draw Us Together
Students build their own bridges or make connections to other peers, teens, adults/parents, senior citizens and people from around the world through various art mediums. Through this type of activity students attempt to communicate in...
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Message in a Bottle
Students acquire a pen pal in a foreign country and write letters at least twice a month throughout the year to exchange with them. At the end of the year, they write an essay that compares one important difference and one important...
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Lost and Found
High schoolers define depression and examine different factors that cause it.
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Tell Me; I'll Listen
Students complete activities about the importance of listening in order to show respect. In this listening lesson, students read Angel Child, Dragon Child and discuss the role of listening. Students practice listening in pairs by telling...
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Social Interactions in the Habbo Hotel
Students examine compare real life social interactions. They participate in an online website, interacting in pseudo real life activities. Students initiate conversations with others online. Students examine benefits and drawbacks to...
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Orca Book Publishers: Chill Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Two high school friends disagree on the motive behind a teacher's unkind behaviour and it tests their friendship. This teacher's guide for Chill by Colin Frizzell includes a book summary, discussion topics and teaching ideas.
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Orca Book Publishers: Bang Teaching Guide [Pdf]
For this novel by Norah McClintock, two boys' long-time friendship is ended after they rob a canteen and the owner is killed. "Bang" provides a vehicle for discussing the serious issues of guns, gangs and gun control laws. This teacher's...
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Childnet: Online Safety: For 14 18 Year Olds
Older teenagers may rely on the internet even more for their friendships and entertainment. Use our activities to help them manage their online lives. We've selected a couple of activities from across our resources to help older teens...
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Childnet: Online Safety: R for Respect
This section has been developed to help generate discussions about respect, friendship and online conflict including cyberbullying. Download R for Respect toolkit resources.
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Orca Book Publishers: Chat Room Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Chat Room by Canadian author Kristin Butcher deals with the important issue of online safety. Linda, a teenager, develops a friendship online with someone who begins to send her gifts. This teacher's guide includes a book summary and...