Discuss media stereotypes with your emerging consumers. They view a television program to identify gender bias. After discussing the clip as a class, each learner writes a story showing more equitable roles. Or consider having them...

Students explore agriculture by participating in a role-play activity. For this farm to fork lesson, students ask and answer questions as though they were a specific plant about to be eaten. Students write responses to critical thinking...

Students examine the three dimensions of health, wealth, and happiness from both emotional and social perspectives. Among the week-long activities are discussions about good and poor habits, minimizing risks by proper planning and...

Learners explore healthy eating habits by conducting a physical food challenge. In this food pyramid lesson, students identify the main concepts behind the food pyramid and what choices they should be making with their food intake....

Students analyze inner and outer beauty in a text. They raise questions about the main characters and their portrayals and explore issues such as friendship, love, and respect for yourself and other individuals. They choose a friend and...

Third graders understand what a friend is. In this lesson about friendships, 3rd graders analyze friend and non friend traits. Students learn about relationships through discussion in class. Students gather in groups and look at a list...

Fourth graders identify a problem and write a persuasive essay to the appropriate audience, to correct the problem. They demonstrate effective decision making based on positive self-worth. Students need to write a paragraph about their...

Students revise the points of the fire triangle and discuss the characteristics of each corner, drawing up a set of adjectives to describe each contributor to a fire, and discuss ways a person might "stop" each contributor. They then use...