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My Life 24-7 Video
Students utilize the short film genre to illustrate ethical themes and identify good character. In this ethics and technology lesson, students discuss their favorite viral videos and select an ethically themed topic to create their own...
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My Life 24-7
Analyze the "My Life 24-7" project as a part of community involvement. Students discuss the pros and cons of being community involved. They will also write a proposal to increase community involvement and submit a blog entry about the...
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It's Who I Am
Young scholars use banners to share information about themselves. In this art-based character lesson, students make a banner with an acrostic made from their name, then share the banner and information about themselves with the class.
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A Fish Tale Fable
Students identify the moral in a fable. In this folktale lesson, students read an included book, Fish Tale, and identify the message in the book. Students discuss what kind of lessons can be learned from reading this fable.
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A Monument to Value
Students build a monument to represent trustworthiness. In this trustworthiness lesson plan, students discuss traits related to trustworthiness, suggest images that represent trustworthiness, and build a monument with those images.
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Be a Good Egg
Students use an eggshell decay to represent what happens when a person loses someone's trust. For this trust lesson, students discuss decay and complete an eggshell decay activity. Students use the experiment to represent what happens...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Ella Baker
Students research the life of Ella Baker and examine the importance of Civil Rights through citizen mobilization. In this rights lesson, students read the biography of Ella Baker and make suggestions of things to change in their own...
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Energetic Citizenship
Students analyze how to use less energy. In this energy conservation lesson, students discuss fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs and experiment to examine the energy of both sources using thermometers. Students complete the Wattage...
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Independence Day
Students discuss and complete activities associated with Independence Day. In this Independence Day lesson, students brainstorm about holidays and their symbols. Students complete organization charts and work in pairs to develop their...
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Memorial Day
Learners learn the significance of the song Taps and why it is played at a soldier's funeral. In this Taps lesson plan, students hear the song, discuss its importance, and try and play the tune using other instruments.
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Picture (More) Perfect
Students help their community. In this character counts lesson, students discuss problems facing the world and their community. They come up with solutions to some of these problems.
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Positive Mistakes
Young scholars discuss the role of mistakes and how they could turn it into a learned opportunity. In this mistakes lesson plan, students discuss perseverance on how to use a mistake as something valuable.
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Pulling-Together Web
Learners roll a ball to each other that is attached to a string to form a web. In this web lesson plan, students learn how one person's actions affect a whole by making the class web. They discuss citizenship and how they are all...
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Pumpkin Fallacies
Students complete circumference activities using a pumpkin and explore treating people fairly in regards to their physical characteristics. In this math and character lesson, students view images of pumpkins and describe them. Students...
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Putting the 'pi' in Pumpkin Pie
Pupils use geometric formulas to divide a pumpkin pie. In this geometric formulas lesson, students review equations for area and circumference of a circle and divide a pumpkin pie to practice the formulas. Pupils use the Pythagorean...
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Quote Bookmarks
Students make bookmarks of quotes they created themselves based on the characteristics of good leaders. For this character lesson plan, students study the character of role models, read quotes they have said, and come up with their own.
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Recycling Responsibility
Students practice recycling. In this character counts lesson, students discuss why students should be responsible about recycling. They cut out pictures from a magazine showing items that can be recycled.
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Respectful Interview
Learners interview elderly people in a senior citizen community center. In this character counts lesson, students interview the elderly about how society can be more respectful. They videotape and watch the interviews together.
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Summer Activities
Learners work together in groups and pretend they are stranded on a desert island. In this desert island lesson plan, students write messages in a bottle, work together to give compliments, and talk about their feelings.
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Summer Activities
Students practice saying no to their friends in a role play situation. In this friends lesson plan, students discuss what valuable friendship is, and that it is ok to say no to a friend.
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Tell Me; I'll Listen
Students complete activities about the importance of listening in order to show respect. In this listening lesson, students read Angel Child, Dragon Child and discuss the role of listening. Students practice listening in pairs by telling...
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Valentine's Day
Students participate in a gardening activity to learn about the growth process and how to show care. In this garden care lesson, students discuss Valentine's Day poems for words of kindness. Students read a poem about a garden of love...
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Building Trust
Students complete activities about trust. In this trust lesson, students discuss trust and working together. Students work in groups to build a LEGO creation using trust and cooperation. Students discuss the overall process and the role...
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Cheating Hurts
Students make a list in groups of why cheating is wrong. In this cheating lesson plan, students make a list and discuss their lists with the whole class.