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Choose Your Own Adventure Story
Students investigate the concept of writing adventure stories. They follow the model of a "choose your own adventure story". Students practice the skill of making choices to get to a desired outcome. The application is when they follow...
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What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
Students explore numerous types of careers. As a class, they list people they know and the types of jobs and services that are provided. Students discuss the responsibilities of having a job. Volunteer students explain what they wish...
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My Inspiration Project
Students reflect about decision making in their lives and explore their feelings about these life events. They create 100 word narratives and poems with specific details then create Power Point presentations of their project.
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Making Good Decisions
Students practice balancing different interests involved in solving social problems, looking for the most realistic solution based on the advantages and disadvantages. They also consider the concept of compromise.
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Choices and Consequences
First graders explore the relationships between the choices one makes and the consequences that follow. The importance of choices in context of getting along with others is stressed throughout the lesson.
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Decision-Making
Students focus on responsible decision making and values-clarification in this unit of lessons. They examine how values effect decision making can make the difference between a successful life and one filled with problems.
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Choices
Young scholars read "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. They complete a chart about their own choices and decide on them using the chart. They discover the importance of making good choices.
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Dramatic Dilemmas
Students read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, and develop skits that deal with projecting possible long-term impacts of decisions, and taking risks.
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The Essential Brick
Students examine their position within their school and discuss qualities they need to be productive citizens outside of school. they culminate the unit by writing an autobiography that includes the concepts of responsibility, choice,...
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Focused Learning Lesson: Economics
Young scholars review and discuss what skills and knowledge they need to make a decision about a career. They take a test to see which career they would most likely fit into.
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Career Explorations
Students use a variety of resources to discover their personal goals, interests, aptitudes and priorities. They apply these interests to course selection and career choices.
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Character Education
Learners read about character education in stories online. In this character education lesson, students complete activities about making good choices and sign a pledge to be a good person.
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Decisions.... Decisions
Students examine the stories of important decisions that have affected American history. They identify the cause and effect relationship of decisions by George Washington and Robert E. Lee and create graphic organizers with their...
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Choices and Consequences
First graders read "The Red Racer" by Audrey Wood. They identify choices and consequences present in the story. They identify and evaluate choices, and the consequences of those choices, in everyday life both at school and home.
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Eating a Variety for Breakfast
Students describe different types of breakfasts they would like to eat. They make and eat breakfast food.
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Decision Making
High schoolers read and discuss a story about decision making. They consider the role of self-awareness and personal values in decision making.
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Substance Abuse Influences
Students role play peer pressure situations and decision-making using cookies. They assess their own influences and reactions to the role play.
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Manners
Young scholars are given opportunities to become aware of manners. They become aware of their behaviors and choices and to provide a positive place for students to think about their choices.
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Making Choices
Students solve word problems relating to economic choices. In this economic choices instructional activity, students discuss the importance of budgeting and how to save money. Students complete a economic choices worksheet.
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What Does Advertising Say About Smoking?
Students examine tobacco advertisements. In this smoking advertisements lesson, students read old magazine or newspaper ads to determine their purpose and influence. Students also discuss how to make responsible health decisions and...
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Making Good Decisions
Young scholars practice the skill of reasoned decision making. For this making decisions lesson, students read from the website 'Little Planet Times' and use the 'Making Good Decisions' E-Sheet to help with the article. Young scholars...
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Making Good Decisions
Students explore the decision-making process. In this citizenship lesson, students read the book, A Hill Too High to Climb and discuss the decisions the characters had to make in the story. Students discuss how the characters' actions...
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Top of the Jobs
Students write reasons for liking a certain job. In this jobs lesson plan, students identify the top 3 jobs they would like to have. They then fill out a worksheet explaining why they would like to have that job.
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Our Country's People, Lesson Four
In this understanding the past worksheet, learners read and answer 3 multiple choice questions involving the past, reaching a goal and an area with common features.