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VOTING

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss 'The importance of voting'. They elect 5 candidates - each representing one of the five values. Each candidate presents a case why their value is important. The other class members then vote for whichever value/candidate...
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Acting With Honesty

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze stories to study the value of honesty. Songs and role playing are included in this lesson of character education. Activities include: brainstorming situations that would be easy to be dishonest, drawing pictures to...
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Right Conduct

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of helping others and cultivating this as a character trait. They play a game as part of the introduction to the instructional activity. The instructional activity uses a quiet time that has students...
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Promises, Promises

For Teachers 6th - 7th
If someone breaks a promise, is that person no longer trustworthy? Present your 6th and 7th graders with a series of statements and have them debate their opinions with supporting evidence. As an extension, have your students write a...
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Foreign Language: Mira

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners complete a series of activities based on the book, Mira, culminating in the presentation of a play. Included in the 21 activities are puppeteering, drawing, and reciting poetry.
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Giving Back to our School Community

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize that gifts can be for a community and not just for an individual. They acknowledge that helping to beautify our school community is a positive step in becoming a contributing citizen.
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Conflict Resolution Skills Training

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars complete conflict resolution skills training as a part of creating a caring school community. In this conflict resolution lesson, students work with a group of peer student leaders to resolve conflicts. Young scholars...
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Build Mastery: Visualization

For Teachers K - 3rd
What do you see? Young reader tap into the visualization process as they listen to or read a fiction story and fill out a graphic organizer. Model this first with a think-aloud, showing scholars how you visualize a familiar story. For...
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Building Trust

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify the qualities that make them trustworthy. In this philanthropy activity, students define the word "trust" and play a game that demonstrates trust between the players. Students discuss people they know who are trustworthy.
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And Others?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Having integrity is often easier said than done. After completing the first lesson in a unit on being true to themselves and their values, learners engage in a discussion about three different people in difficult situations that call for...
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Banking on Family

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the meaning of a trust bank account. In this financial awareness lesson, students brainstorm ways they are trustworthy to their family and define the meaning of a trust bank account.
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Build Mastery: Making Inferences

For Teachers K - 3rd
Do your youngsters realize that they are constantly making inferences? Expose this inner process by bringing out the book they will be reading. Ask scholars what they think the plan is, and explain that their answers are the product of...
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The Miracle of the First Poinsettia

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Connecting to literature and learning how to infer are two great reading strategies everyone needs to know. Here, the class will read along with the story The Miracle of the First Poinsettia, review folktales as a genre, and make...
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Random Acts of Kindness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make a bookmark. In this community lesson, students review the meaning of caring. They discuss how doing small acts of kindness can affect a community, and they make a bookmark to remind them to do kind things for others.
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Community of Trusted Learners

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm the characteristics of trusted learners. In this social skills lesson, students brainstorm what a 'community of trusted learners' would look like. Students create a continuum of distrustful to trustful individuals...
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Dancing Rainbows: A Pueblo Boy's Story

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify the main ideas illustrated in the story "Dancing Rainbows." They identify details from the story that show respect toward self and others. Students write a paragraph to illustrate how the Tewa Indians show respect....
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What Type of Caring?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine how they care about others. In this caring lesson, 8th graders make a list of five things that they care about and place them on charts that are placed around the room. They classify them according to what type of...
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Oprah Winfrey

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students read about the philanthropic works of Oprah Winfrey and her Angel Network. Students discuss issues that are important to them.
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Public Trust

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discover public trust. In this civics lesson plan, students explore how to promote public trust as they use their resources to support worthy politicians, athletes, celebrities, and corporations.
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Seeing the Other Side

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the concept of justice. In this fairness lesson, students explore just and unjust activities they have observed in the world. Middle schoolers attempt to look at both sides of stories.
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One Small Act

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students perform acts of kindness. In this caring lesson, students brainstorm ideas for acts of kindness. Students select their favorite idea and work in groups to make a plan for how to carry out their act of kindness.
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Reflection on the Long Term

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars write about how they should not get discouraged if they don't see results in the short term, because it will pay off in the long term. In this short and long term lesson plan, students discuss quotes and read passages...
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One Plus One Makes You and Me - Respect

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young pupils should benefit from this wonderful series of activities designed to teach them how to get along with, and respect each other. Learners recognize how to demonstrate both respectful and disrespectful behavior, and take part in...
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Describe a Journey

For Teachers 5th - 8th
 Students describe the sensory experience of a character's journey in an essay.  In this precise details writing lesson, students explain the effects on the senses of weather, time of day, landscape, and other...

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