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Living the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Inspire kindness in and out of school with a lesson that challenges scholars to perform 100 acts of kindness during the time between Martin Luther King Jr. Day to Valentine's day. Leading up to a celebration of friendship, learners...
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Thoughtful Learning

Doing Random Acts of Kindness

For Students K - 5th
Encourage scholars to perform random acts of kindness. A lesson challenges participants to choose a peer they wish to be kind to without them knowing. Learners list five good deeds and choose one to fulfill. Pupils reflect on the process...
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Curated OER

Increase Kindness, Defeat Bullying: Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation

For Students 7th - 9th
High-interest content captures your most reluctant readers and class participants. Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation, in collaboration with Harvard University, seeks to nurture a culture of kindness and reduce bullying. Excerpts from...
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A Kindness Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Children record instances when they witness kindness on paper flowers. The flowers are posted on a class tree. Children may also journal and add art to the tree. This lovely idea can be utilized during any part or throughout the entire...
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Kindness Castle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss recognizing when kind deeds are performed. They design and construct a castle-like structure to place notes of appreciation for their classmates. Castles include a dungeon for "grumpy" notes as well. Once castle is...
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Random Acts of Kindness For Kids

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Develop a world-wide, email chain on which class members can showcase their acts of kindness. After defining the meaning of random acts of kindness through discussion and through a reading of Random Acts of Kindness,...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Kindness

For Teachers K - 2nd
Encourage kindness with a lesson that defines kindness, asks scholars how to show kindness, and share how others have shown them kindness. Multiple activities prove that kindness is easy to give through coloring, storytelling, a game of...
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Kinds of Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Help your students mix up their writing with different kinds of sentences with this PowerPoint. Each slide gives a brief definition of the various types including: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and more! There are also examples...
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Using "Kindness"

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners discover the benefits of kind acts by dissecting the word itself.  In this vocabulary instructional activity, students utilize the letters in the word "kindness" to create other words which they record.  Learners figure out what...
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Kind Student Award

For Students K - 4th
Here is a nice certificate that you can print out and give to any child who shows kindness toward animals. This could be a culminating award for a unit on animals that stresses how important it is to be kind to them at all times.
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Random Acts of Kindness for Kids

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars examine the concept of kindness to others. They define kindness, listen to various stories about random acts of kindness, and create an e-mail chain describing their own acts of kindness that is sent around the world.
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Kindness Just Because

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students analyze an African folktale. In this literature instructional activity, students read the story "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" by John Steptoe and analyze the acts of kindness in the story. Students identify the setting of the...
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An Exercise in Kindness

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Although this resource is not a traditional lesson plan, it does explain an activity for creating a safe and supportive environment while teaching young learners the importance of being kind to one another. Start bt reading the...
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Penguin Books

Wonder in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Would you rather be right, or would you rather be kind? A novel unit based on R.J. Palacio's Wonder focuses on the need to be kind to others and to accept their differences. As learners read the book, they discuss the themes of family...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kinds of Nouns

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
With so many different kinds of nouns, it can be hard for young learners to keep them all straight. Help clarify this important part of speech for your class with this series of worksheets which clearly addresses the difference...
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Teaching Kindness across the Curriculum: Kindness for a Day, a Week, a Month, a Year

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Young scholars investigate the concept of character kindness in literature. In this human character lesson plan, students read about kindness and write about their understanding of it. 
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Plant a Seed of Kindness

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students perform acts of kindness.  In this character lesson, students cut out seed shapes and write down their acts of kindness on them.  Students place the seeds on a bulletin board where they "plant" them below the grass line.
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Kindness Counts Book

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners make a book about kindness.  In this character lesson, students read a story about kindness and discuss how it applies to life.  Learners complete a kindness counts page and then assemble them into a book.  Students can deliver...
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Pizza with the Principal & Kindness Cash

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students understand how their words and acts affect others. In this acts of kindness lesson, students were rewarded for kind acts by getting to have pizza with the Principal. Students also participated in a Principal's kindness day so...
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Celebrating Caring and Kindness

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners create a poster that represents how to care and give kindness. In this caring and kindness lesson plan, students demonstrate character development by creating a poster in groups on how they can care and be kind at home, school,...
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Kinds of Sentences by Function Practice

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this kinds of sentences worksheet, students study examples of declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. Students read ten sentences and tell what type they are and put in the ending punctuation.
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What Kind of Vessel Are You?

For Teachers K - 5th
This is a strange question; but what kind of vessel would you be and why? After examining images of a large Inca jug, the class sets to writing a creative narrative that answers that very interesting question. They start by researching...
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Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

Responding with Kindness Role-plays

For Students 6th Standards
Thank you. Excuse me. I'm sorry! Pupils watch a video about encouraging things people should say more often. Next, they work in small groups to develop a role-play based on a difficult situation. They perform their role-plays for the...
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Special Sunflowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students view a picture of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. For this caring and kindness lesson students read Camille and the Sunflower and explore the feelings of the characters. Students complete worksheets related to Camille's feelings in the...

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