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Jobs in Our Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars brainstorm jobs that help contribute to a smooth running classroom. After identifying responsibilities and skills necessary for each job, they created "Help Wanted" posters. Students design their own letterhead and submit...
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Planning to Parent, Day 1: Infant Health

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What do infants need? What are parental responsibilities? Why breastfeed? What are the pros and cons? When do infants sit-up, roll over, crawl, talk, get teeth, eat solid foods, and sleep through the night? So many questions, and this is...
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4-H Poultry Activity Page: Responsiblity

For Students 3rd - 6th
How many eggs does a chicken lay annually? A poultry project gets 4-H members experiencing the importance of responsibility and care of animals. They read about managing poultry and working with eggs, write a story about their flock,...
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Rights and Responsibilities: Grass Born to Be Stepped On

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research an event in history in which rights and responsibilities are involved. They create a movie of the information they find.
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Rights and Responsibilities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Discuss the differences between rights and responsibilities with your class. Various topics are covered in relation to how each is a right or a responsibility, then several thinking questions are posed. Use to start a class discussion or...
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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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Rights and Responsibilities in History

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners research rights and responsibilities in historic themes using primary source documents. They produce an iMovie including appropriate images and sounds.
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What Does It Mean To Be a Good Citizen?

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study citizenship and what it means to be a good sitizen. They create their own country and determine its citizenship rules. They work together to create a visual representation of what makes a good citizen.
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Children Around the World

For Teachers K - 5th
Students consider the impact of family differences. In this culture lesson, students choose from a variety of cultures to research how children grow up differently in each family. Students use a variety of resources to discover the...
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Internet Cabinet Activity

For Students 9th - 12th
In this President's Cabinet worksheet, high schoolers research the internet and write the major responsibilities and budget of the departments in the Cabinet. Students complete 18 sections.
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Money situations

For Students 9th - 12th
In this money situations worksheet, high schoolers read money word problems and then list the benefit, opportunity cost, risks, and responsibilities for each one. Students do this for 6 questions.
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How to Be a Good Citizen

For Students 5th - 8th
In this citizenship worksheet, students learn about what it means to be a good citizen. They then answer the 20 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page.
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First Amendment Rights

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a problem-solving and decision-making process involving the First Amendment rights to analyze and implement a solution for a school-related issue. They are given a variety of scenarios to apply the First...
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Virtual Colony Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop strategies to create a successful colony by analyzing the environment, individual rights, and responsibilities. They gain an understanding of the challenges faced by colonists.
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Let the Truth Be Known

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore authenticity in written works and the responsibilities of the media. They read two Holocaust accounts, one that is factual and one that was fabricated. They further examine, the importance of authenticity in the media.
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How To Be A True Friend

For Teachers 4th
Student develop the importance of a healthy friendship. In this healthy friendship lesson , 4th graders participate in role-playing and enhance their interpersonal skills as well as their life skills.  Students then are introduced to the...
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Developing a Life-Managment Plan

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students investigate values and goals to develop a life-management plan. In this life goals lesson plan, students identify life choices and factors affecting the choices. Students establish short and long term personal goals and the...
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4-H Leadership & Personal Development Activity Page

For Students 7th - 10th
In order to create a classroom full of active participants, students need to feel that they are part of the decision-making process. Using this 15 question activity, learners can explore the importance of developing leadership skills.
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Career Skills

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders work together to focus upon the skills needed for career development. They work together to find the kind of responsibilities that are needed in the contexts of home, work, and school. They create a poster based upon the...
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Where the Red Fern Grows: A 4th Grade Literary Focus Unit

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...
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Roles of the President

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read a document which explains the roles and responsibilities of the President of the United States. In groups, they tour the George Bush Presidential Museum and participate in a Presidential scavenger hunt. Once back in the...
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Accepting Responsibility

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the responsibilities involved in owning a pet at home. They listen to the story and watch the movie "Arthur's Pet Business," discuss what they are responsible for at home with their pets, and in small groups...
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Effective Citizenship

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore effective citizenship. They describe the skills, attitudes, and actions of a good citizen. In groups, students brainstorm ideas for effective citizenship. Each group shares their ideas for what they consider to be a...
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Truth, Trash and Treasure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how democracy in the United States makes civic virtue possible. They examine the rights and responsibilities associated with democracy. In small groups, they create public service posters that highlight these ideas.