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Parenting - Discipline and Guidance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn the meaning/purpose of discipline and the various parenting types leading to obedience or self-discipline.
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Child Abuse and the Trial Process

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the elements of child abuse and neglect. Using this information, they relate it to the laws in their home state. They read scenerios and ask questions to determine if child abuse is present. They review the trial...
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American Psychological Association

Sampling or Assignment?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Each discipline has its own vocabulary, terms it uses to identify key concepts and processes. Sample, to psychologists, refers to those people (participants) a researcher is studying, while assignment refers to the treatment conditions...
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Sandra Cisneros

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Sandra Cisneros worksheet, learners read about Sandra Cisneros, read quotes she said, and write self discipline vocabulary next to the quotes. Students read 10 quotes.
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Parenting - Discipline and Guidance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the role of discipline and guidance in their own lives and become better able to appropriately guide and discipline young Students.
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Social Studies: Child Abuse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the difference between child abuse and discipline. During a discussion, they identify the types of abuse and prevention methods. In groups, students examine various scenarios and determine whether or not the situations...
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Huddle up with a Character based Economic Plan to help Community Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete Perseverance, Courage, and Caring lessons from Get into the Game: Beyond Winning to properly prepare students for cooperative group learning and create a class climate conducive for a successful unit. They create a...
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Social Studies: Positive Guidance

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discover the meaning of discipline in this teacher preparation lesson. In addition, they investigate why children misbehave and evaluate solutions to the problem. Next, students explore discipline methods that are acceptable...
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Social Issues Facing Children

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the issues facing children in society. In groups, they participate in a simulation to discover the lack of connection between child-support and how it affects the children and society as a whole. To end the lesson,...
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Valentine Village

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils build a small city by using a half-gallon milk or juice carton to "build" a miniature home. They decorate their buildings with construction paper, yarn, beads, or whatever they have and become mailmen, delivering Valentine's to...
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Valentine City

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students construct a small city on a table in the classroom. Each student is given a lot to develop. They give directions from one location to another, and write letters with correct addresses to their classmates.
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Growing in Communities, Kids on the Grow

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students participate in an after school program that promotes concern for others, recognizing differences, accepting differences, leadership roles, mentoring, self-responsibility and personal safety. They explore the diversity of their...
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Buddhism-Buddha Day: The Story of Buddha's Enlightenment

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Buddha Day activity, students select 15 words from the word bank that best complete the 5 paragraph story about Buddha's enlightenment.
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Teaching Responsibility to Children in Different Cultures through Film and Literature Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review the notes they took for "The Little Prince". After identifying the instances of responsibility in the text, they discuss them with others in English. As a class, they watch parts of "Children of Heaven" and write down...
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Resistance to Parents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine family life issues. In this interpersonal relationships lesson plan, students discuss typical resistance to parents from teen children. Students also discuss options for children dealing with difficult or abusive home life.
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Landform Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a word processing program to create a working dictionary, including definitions and pictures, of physical land forms used in the study of different regions of the world.
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You Can't, but Genghis Khan

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars study the life of Genghis Khan from his childhood to adulthood as a conqueror. They write poetry for two voices. They investigate how rules and laws are made and work together to problem solve.
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Breaking News English: Smacking Kids Lowers Their I.Q.

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Smacking Kids Lowers Their I.Q.," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Families and Neighborhoods

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars study family structure. For this family structure lesson, students read the book The Family Book and discuss families. Young scholars create a bulletin board of family photos and draw their families on paper. Students...
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Cyber Parent: How to Grow Self Esteem in Your Child

For Students 9th - 10th
Site offers information on several aspects of self-esteem. Talks about discipline, positive language to use, and offering choices to children. Includes response to questions from parents.
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Gettysburg College: Childhood in Colonial America

For Students 9th - 10th
A student-created college history project. It looks at different aspects of childhood during colonial times, including education, discipline, play, and daily life. (Note: A few images no longer load.)
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Digital History

Digital History: Slave Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
Not all slaves worked in the fields. Read about the jobs of many skilled workers who were slaves in the South. Read also about the slaves who were field hands and find out about the harsh labor conditions they endured.
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University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: Robert E. Lee (1 19 1807 10 12 1870)

For Students 9th - 10th
For some the man Robert E. Lee is an almost god like figure. For others he is a paradox. Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 at Stratford, Virginia. Robert was the fourth child of a Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry"...