Grades:
6
7
8
Learners look for examples of personal best in a movie about perseverance and discuss the value of working toward their personal best even when it is difficult.
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 7)
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners define perseverance and identify the need to persevere in completing tasks. They will explore obstacles and excuses that deter perseverance.
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Grades:
6
7
8
Perseverance involves breaking down a task into small parts and seeing it through, even if it is difficult. In this lesson, groups plan a service project, including what is needed, how to overcome barriers, and a timeline.
Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners brainstorm the effects of taking responsibility and not taking responsibility around issues they care about.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners reflect on a role-play scenario demonstrating fair and unfair decision-making techniques. They identify behaviors that promote or create barriers to making decisions. A Dr. Seuss book provides a discussion starter.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Several questions spark conversation and critical thinking about the meaning of fairness. Learners work together to create a definition of fairness.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners reflect on their attitude about and responsibility for making fair choices about spending. They use the literary device of metaphor to express their thoughts.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners explore the qualities that make a friend trustworthy and determine whether you can be friends with someone you don't trust.
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners write an acrostic poem using the letters of their name to communicate their trustworthy nature.