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Character Education: Caring- Oprah Winfrey
Students explore celebrity philanthropy. In this character development lesson, students read an article and discuss Oprah Winfrey's involvement in several charitable organizations.
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Character Education: Caring
Students create a bookmark with reminders of simple acts of kindness. In this character education lesson plan, students participate in a mini-lesson plan that serves as a great introduction to a service project. Students first brainstorm...
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Character Education- Respect
Students discuss what respect means. In this character education lesson, students read the book Cynthia Ann Parker and discuss the philanthropic acts in the book. Students answer questions about the text on the provided worksheet.
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Character Analysis Lessons
Graphic organizers can be a great tool to help students understand character analysis.
Learning to Give
What Are Your Thoughts?
The varying responses of the characters in Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry to the discrimination they experience or perpetrate provides readers with an opportunity to not only examine the feelings of the characters but to...
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Drama: The New Friends
Reader's Theater is a great way to build fluency, intonation, and dramatic flare. The class reads the theater piece, "The New Friends" paying attention to how they express emotion and feeling as they read. They discuss the use of plot,...
Missouri Department of Elementary
I’m A Star!
A lesson encourages scholars to be star community members. Pupils take part in a class discussion that challenges them to brainstorm at least two ways to show responsibility within one's community. Small groups play a game in which...
Talking with Trees
What is Respect?
Inspire scholars to be the best they can be with a worksheet featuring the character trait, respect. Individuals read multiple scenarios, match their outcomes, and identify whether the behavior was respectful or disrespectful.Â
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Justice for All - Educating Youth for Social Responsibility: Grades K-5
In grades kindergarten through fifth grade, scholars take part in a social-emotional learning unit designed to boost social responsibility. Three hundred pages provide lessons and activities related to everyday classroom practices, the...
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl Matilda Lesson Plans
Fifty eye-catching pages contain six lessons about Roald Dahl's novel, Matilda. Each lesson has a theme and covers a different subject—literacy, social-emotional learning, science, and geography. Scholars analyze characters, examine...
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Cultivating Caring - Filling Buckets of Caring Carrots
Learners practice compassion. In this character education lesson, student read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. Students discuss the book as well as ways to demonstrate they care for one another. Learners fill buckets...
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Back to School (Secondary)
Welcome your class back to school! They will participate in a character education lesson plan in order to build community at the school. First they identify needs of new students by putting themselves in their shoes and create welcome...
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Sharing in the Classroom
Learners explore the concept of sharing. In this character education lesson, students role play methods of sharing in the classroom and create a guidebook for sharing in the classroom.
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Creating a Caring Culture: Appreciating the Diversity of Your School
Students explore community diversity. In this character education lesson, students read the book Is There Really a Human Race? discussing it with their classmates and teachers. Students design paper dolls to represent themselves and...
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Bully Prevention
Students examine the topic of bully prevention. In this character education activity, students establish what bullying is, role play bullying scenarios, and discuss how to manage bullying incidents.
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Owen and Mzee
Students examine the trait of compassion. For this character education lesson, students read Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff. Students discuss the theme of the story as well as what it means...
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Solving an Original Character's Problem With Voice and Emotion
Students read the story A Bad Case of the Stripes and then write their own story conveying a lot of emotion. In this writing lesson plan, students select a title, an emotion, brainstorm, and then start writing.
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Character Education: Honesty
Students explore the character trait of honesty. They listen to the book, Jamaica's Find, identify the examples of honesty and dishonesty, role-play scenarios from the story, and draw a picture about a time they were honest.
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Character Worksheet Three
In this character worksheet, students answer questions about themselves in relation to their family, relationships, and day to day life. Students complete 29 questions.
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Character Building - Brick Wall
Students build a wall of kindness. In this character education activity, students design a character trait bulletin board that features noteworthy student acts of kindness.
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Character Ambassadors
Students act as ambassadors. In this character education lesson, students take on the roles of ambassadors of the character traits listed. Students write essays regarding the character traits they select.
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Character Worksheet Four
In this character worksheet, students answer short answer questions about themselves, talking to people at the faire, and about patrons. Students complete 31 questions.
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Character and Citizenship Education
Students analyze the importance of being a socially healthy citizen. In this character education lesson, students brainstorm personal traits that they think make the world a better place. Students compile their ideas as a class to...
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The Roots of Good Character: Kindness
In this character education worksheet, students examine situations where they could show kindness. Students also learn the word forms: kind, kindly, kindness. Students read 6 illustrated situations and place the proper form of "kind" in...