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ProCon

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Should physician-assisted suicide be legal? Using a debate topics website, pupils prepare to discuss the morality and legality of euthanasia. Scholars discover historical case studies involving assisted suicide, explore state-by-state...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding Suicide

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Suicide is a real issue in many teens' lives. Help your upper graders cope, help, and help their friends when thoughts of suicide arise. They discuss the topic as a class, complete a worksheet, and learn what to do if someone they (or...
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Organizer
Curated OER

ESL: World Suicide Prevention Day

For Students 6th - 10th
Help to educate your ESL students about World Suicide Prevention Day with this series of activities. Matching key phrases, completing CLOZE paragraphs, and choosing appropriate words based on context clues are just a few of the many ways...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Suicide Prevention: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Suicide prevention—a heavy topic but an important one. Over two lessons, pupils gain knowledge about suicide, particularly in teens, and how to advocate for a friend who feels suicidal or depressed. After researching the topic, scholars...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Suicide Prevention: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The teenage years are tough. Internal and external pressures lead 1 in 15 high schoolers to attempt suicide. Two activities focusing on suicide prevention provide class members with information about when and how to get help for...
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Health Smart Virginia

Suicide Prevention: Finding the Words

For Teachers 10th
Provide young people with the information they need to identify the warning signs for depression and the risk factors for suicide. The instructional activity helps high schoolers learn positive coping skills, role-play how to support...
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Health Smart Virginia

Stepping Up to Depression and Suicide

For Teachers 8th
Health Smart provides a lesson that shows middle schoolers how they can step up and help someone exhibiting self-harming behaviors. After learning the signs and symptoms of depression and suicide, teams research local resources...
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Health Smart Virginia

Suicide Prevention - Finding the Words

For Teachers 9th
Acknowledge, Care, Tell! Freshmen learn how to ACT to help a friend demonstrating warning signs for depression and suicide in a carefully scaffolded, scripted activity. Scholars also learn positive coping skills, information about...
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Curated OER

Suicide Prevention

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students are introduced to various concepts related to suicide prevention. They watch a video, read case studies, distinguish between facts and myths about suicide, identify suicide warning signs and participate in class discussion.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Suicide

For Students 9th - 12th
In this suicide worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Curated OER

Iraq's Latest Strategy: Suicide Attacks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This discussion based lesson focuses on the sensitive topic of suicide attacks or bombings used throughout history during times of militaristic upheaval. Learners read news stories, compose journal entries, and engage in a class...
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Curated OER

Teen Life Counts Suicide Prevention

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students participate in a four-day program designed to help themselves and/or their friends who may be contemplating suicide. They take part in role-playing activities, discussions, etc.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Virgin Suicides Quiz

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Jeffrey Eugenides's Virgin Suicides. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Curated OER

Suicide and Depression

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research suicide and depression in teens. They are given an essential research question then create focus questions of their own before conducting their research. Using the Internet, they find answers to their questions...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Suicide & Depression

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are associated with the problems of suicide and depression. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Suicides And Suicide Rates

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate suicide using a variety of criteria and create a bar graph before discussing the results as a class.
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Curated OER

The Life You Save...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify common warning signs of depression that, if not addressed, could lead to suicidal behavior. They write skits and create booklets in which they document appropriate suicide prevention techniques.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Live And Let Die?

For Students 7th - 10th
In this live and let die activity, students, with a partner, complete a verb tense table on the verb die, fill in nine sentences with nine phrases associated with death and discuss ten questions dealing with suicide and crimes.
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Lesson Plan
Deliberating in a Democracy

Euthanasia

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze euthanasia as a possible way to die.  In this controversial lesson, students reflect and discuss euthanasia as a possible way to enter death.  Classroom discussion allows students to voice their opinion and personal...
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Hastings Prince Edward Public Health

My Life—My Mental Health

For Students 6th - 8th
Between peer pressure, an onslaught of hormones, and brand new responsibilities, the teenage years can be emotionally volatile. Equip young adults with coping mechanisms and a safe place to discuss their feelings with a guided lesson...
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Activity
Penguin Books

Using Thirteen Reasons Why in the Classroom

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher helps bring difficult, but important, topics such as suicide and bullying into the classroom. An educator's guide for the novel provides activities and discussion questions to help teens explore the...
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Health Smart Virginia

Life Saver

For Teachers 8th
Tweens and teens learn how to be a lifesaver and help a peer who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide. They identify risk factors and warning signs, and strategies to get an individual to seek help.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Depression: On the Edge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch and discuss a video dealing with the topic of depression and suicide. They answer discussion questions, identify sources of stress, conduct research on exercise and diet, interview a psychiatrist, and take a self-test on...
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Study Guide
Penguin Books

A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
"Immoral!" "Scandalous!" When published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening was not well received. The novel traces the tragedy of Edna Pontellier, who rebels against the strictures placed upon her as a woman and mother. However, the...

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