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Student Opinion: What Are You Afraid Of?

For Students 7th - 12th
A great resource for informational texts as well as writing topics, the New York Times website provides writing prompts about various news articles through The Learning Network. This particular activity provides a very short reading...
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Fears and Phobias

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Take the fear out of reading with this series of three lessons from HotWire Magazine about fears and phobias. Each instructional activity contains pre-reading and post-reading activities aimed at improving learners' reading comprehension...
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Eugenics Lesson Plan: Button or Bumper Sticker

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate how fear can cause problems with policies associated with people with disabilities. For this people with disabilities lesson, students study the associated vocabulary, fill in a chart which contains policies that are...
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Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Interesting! Have your high schoolers watch this 13-minute clip from the documentay, "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?" It examines the fear we have as a culture about death and whether or not the media increases those fears. The focus...
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Dealing With Earthquake Fear

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss their fears about earthquakes. They research each fear the class has using the internet. They practice earthquake drills and discuss what to do in the event of an emergency.
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Afraid! Who, Me?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students confront fear through literature. For this literary elements lesson, students discuss fear and what they know about the horror genre of literature. Students then examine the painting "The Scream," by Edvard Munch and listen to a...
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The Crucible

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Young scholars explore the historical drama, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller looking for examples of society's mistrust of nonconformity and the injustice that can as a result of fear.
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Being Brave and Dealing with Fear

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students discuss fears. In this bravery lesson, students listen to the book Brave Little Monster by Ken Baker and discuss the monster's fears. They create puppets of themselves being brave.
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Worksheet
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Puzzle By Phobias: Word Search

For Students 7th - 10th
In this word search worksheet, students search for scientific terminology for phobias. These are the root words that eventually became English words for common phobias.
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Fearlesness

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils explore overcoming fear. As a class, students share experiences of being afraid. After pupils read a story about being fearful, students compare events in their lives to the character in the story. They sing songs about not...
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Hiv/aids, Year 1, Day 1

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students listen to an explanation distinguishing non-communicable and communicable diseases and the difference between concern and unhealthy fear. They describe the transmission modes for HIV and determine that casual contact can't pass...
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Confidence

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore communication and confidence issues. In this communication and confidence lesson, students discuss fear, stage fright, phobia's in relation to the planks of confidence. Students view a related film. Students explore...
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Kid's Worksheet on Fear

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this emotions and feelings worksheet, students define the emotion of fear. Students then complete several activities to help them understand fear.
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Love And Fears

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate biophillia and how it effects people of different types. They conduct research using a variety of resources and use questions included in the lesson plan to focus the information search. Then students read some...
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A Chance of a Life Time

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view and discuss the painting A Narrow Escape, by Alfred Jacob Miller. They write their own narrative about a time they were either scared or frightened. They make sketches of that time and choose one to paint using watercolor.
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No Fears

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders imagine themselves living in a different world and attempt to see themselves in the world differently.
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Help Them Feel Safe.

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore how to feel safe. They identify community workers who help keep the faciliies safe.