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Knowing the Community: Sharing Activity
Students begin to build community in the classroom by participating in a sharing activity.
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Who I Am Poems
Students write short poems, starting each line with "I am," describing in their own words who they are and what is salient to their identity.
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Learning Social Roles: Boys and Girls
Students write and share short pieces about how their gender identities were affected through childhood messages about what it meant to be a boy or a girl. This activity can be used to introduce a discussion on gender issues.
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Stress
Students identify the causes and symptoms of stress and describe positive forms of stress management.
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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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Minding Your Manners
Students practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.
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Decision Making
Young scholars 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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People, Places and Events
Students cooperate within a small group, review materials covered in previous lessons, use higher level thinking skills and gain positive feedback through competition.
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Determination of Tensile Stress-Strain Common Properties in Materials
Students demonstrate the relationship between stress and strain, then graph stress-strain curves for various common materials. Students interpret graphed results and discuss differences in mechanical properties of materials.
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It's a Mad World
Students explore the various factors leading to anger, the health risks involved in anger, and the techniques people can use to cope with it. Through writing and performing scenarios that enact different causes and coping techniques of...
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Managing Stress: Living without Stress Overload
Students explore a three hour set of readings, discussion questions an web links to gain tools to identify, alleviate and prevent stress in their lives. They work to develop a life-style that is, to a large extent, stress-free.
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Setting Boundaries
Learners identify the different relationships they are involved in. In this communication lesson, students discuss the importance of setting boundaries in every relationship. They cite the negative and positive consequences when people...
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Holidays: Stress on the Body
Learners read an article on stress and holiday weight gain. In this biology lesson, students research about the body's response to excess sugar in the diet. They create a pamphlet, billboard, newscast or journal article containing...
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Expressing Anger
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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Fishing Line Tests
High schoolers test the strength of different fishing lines. In this chemistry lesson, students conduct the experiment by hanging various masses on the fishing line until it breaks. They record data, construct graphs and formulate their...
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Fishing Line Tests
Students test the strength of fishing lines. In this stress test lesson, students will investigate the breaking point of various fishing lines and graph the results.
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Dealing with Conflict
Students identify types of conflict and various responses to anger. In this character education lesson plan, the teacher introduces definitions of conflict and anger responses. Students find examples of types of conflict in newspapers...
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World Religions
For this world religions worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to all religions. There are 26 words located in the puzzle.
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Anorexia
In this word search worksheet, learners identify and locate vocabulary terms related to anorexia in teens. There are 28 words in the puzzle.
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Relying on People You Know for Transportation
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the concept of transportation and focus upon carpooling to work. They role play the skill of asking for a ride and making arrangements for a transportation schedule. Students...
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Anger Management
Students identify at least three feelings or emotions. They identify the difference between negative ("bad") emotions and negative behavior. Students make a list of as many emotions as possible. They identify different situations in...
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Introduction to Yoga
Students are introduced to yoga for fitness and relaxation. Over the course of the lesson, students practice various yoga poses and relaxation methods. They complete two minute yoga stations after all of the poses have been demonstrated.
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Work Force Awareness
Students identify desirable personal qualities for a chosen workplace. They brainstorm 3 work environments of good and poor personal work qualities. Students interview their parents or employer. They comprehend learning style and how it...
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Be Strong / Live Strong Stationary Bike Program
Pupils participate in a Be Strong Bike Program that rewards them for exhibiting positive behavior. If a student is caught doing something good, they receive a positive behavior slip that has a written description of their positive...