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PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Creating a Caring Classroom Community
Help early learners build healthy social and emotional skills with this special collection on promoting kindness, being just, and creating a caring classroom community! These activities, videos, tips, articles, and guides offer...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Building Bridges of Friendship
Learn how to build better friendships when you explore this resource. This site provides detailed games, activities, and other resources to help learners learn about the importance of building relationships.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Opening the Door for Reading
This lesson plan explores opportunities to build connections and community within the classroom based on shared favorite texts. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers
Workshop 1 explores the components of a community of writers and what teachers can do to create and foster such a community. After a brief introduction to the goals of all eight workshop sessions, middle school teacher and writing expert...
Other
Building Community in the Classroom (Lesson Plan)
Exercise in which participants introduce themselves by sharing information about their ethnicities and backgrounds, highlighting the similarity and diversity among members of the class.
PBS
Arthur's World Neighborhood: Lesson Plans
A variety of activities, resources, and tips designed to help kids explore cultural diversity within their own communities and around the world. All suggestions based on books from the "Arthur" series, which airs on most PBS stations....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environment
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...