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Should Fitness Be Mandatory?
Young scholars examine a website for viewpoints on fitness as a legal issue. They form positions on communal responsibility vs. personal freedoms and present to the class their positions.
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Deliberate Acts of Kindness
Young scholars recognize and honor kind acts of Holocaust liberators and rescuers, and realize importance of kind acts towards others.
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What Can I Do To Help?
Second graders read Frederick by Leo Lionni and complete class activities to examine how everyone has a responsibility to contribute and that each person's contribution is important.
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Workers Who Help Us At School (Part 2)
First graders identify the roles and responsibilities of various school workers. They identify the skills that school workers need to complete their jobs. Students discuss what a role is. They discuss the term responsibility.
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In Step With Good Character
Most schools participate in a character education program. This presentation, which outlines the definitions for such terms as self-discipline, integrity, perseverance, etc ., could be used as a discussion starter. You could alter, or...
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Teaching Responsibility
In this responsibility worksheet, students complete a true/false checklist about being responsible and complete discussion questions after viewing a referenced video. Suggestions for writing and students activities are also given.
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True Friends
Fourth graders examine qualities of friendship. In this friendship instructional activity, 4th graders investigate responsible decisions and healthy relationships. Students will role-play relationship situations.
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Dodging Responsibility
Students explore responsibility. In this character education lesson, students review the definition of responsibility and brainstorm possible consequences of taking responsibility and not taking responsibility. Student's thoughts are...
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Assuming Responsibility
Sixth graders explore the concept of responsibility. In this character education lesson, 6th graders discuss the various types of responsibilities they have. Students create their own definition of responsibility based on the list they...
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Steps to Responsibility
Sixth graders explore the steps in decision making and responsibility. In this instructional activity, 6th graders analyze a scenario and decide what actions should be taken. Students write in their journals.
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Perfect Manners/Roles of Citizens
Students discuss manners and citizenship. In this roles of citizens lesson, students read D.W.'s Guide to Perfect Manners and create a Venn Diagram with examples from the story. Students take a quiz.
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Responsible Pet Ownership
Students understand the concepts of responsibility and dependency. Students are paired up, one student is blind folded and the other leads on a trust walk which illustrates the concepts of responsibility and dependency.
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Day Four: Environmental Responsibility
Students discuss environmental responsibility. In this environment instructional activity, students create a story with the teacher with four made up characters. They have these characters do environmentally responsible and irresponsible...
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My Perfect Pet
Students explore pet ownership. In this my perfect pet instructional activity, students research common animals used as pets and complete a variety of activities based on this data.
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True Champions Practice Points-Responsibility
Students explore personal responsibility. In this character development lesson, students discuss and analyze a quote from Mia Hamm, a U.S. soccer player. Students brainstorm short and long term personal and team member responsibilities...
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Financial Plans
Students create an economic system based on responsibility and caring. In this economics and character lesson, students receive Character Currency and practice using the money for a good cause. Students brainstorm charities they would...
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Back to School (Elementary)
Students discover the vocabulary of the Six Pillars of Character and their relation to the school environment. In this character education instructional activity, students discuss the character pillars and brainstorm about their use in...
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Preventing Forest Fires (Elementary)
Young scholars complete activities to learn about the importance of fire prevention and protecting the diversity of the forest. In this forest protection lesson, students discuss forest fires and work in groups to research the species...
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Good Citizens
Students differentiate responsible from irresponsible behavior in their community. In this citizenship lesson, students use technology to organize lists of responsible and irresponsible behaviors, write about the effects these behaviors...
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Dodging Responsibility
Learners examine what makes people be responsible. In this responsibility instructional activity, students chart the good and bad things that happen if you take responsibility and if you don't.
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Take Responsibility
Middle schoolers examine the importance of responsibility. In this character education lesson, students participate in a group discussion to explore and define responsibility.
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Assuming Responsibility
Sixth graders examine the meaning of responsibility for sixth graders. In this responsibility lesson, 6th graders use a list of brainstormed ideas to create a definition of responsibility. They look at their own responsibility to...
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Personal Responsibility
Middle schoolers write in their journals. In this writing and responsibility lesson, students write about personal responsibility. They have three writing choices to choose from that all deal with this central theme.
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Rolling in Dough
Students make play dough. In this cooperation lesson, students practice working together in a group. Students work in small groups to make play dough. They discuss how they cooperated and how it was beneficial to completing the project.