Students explore the meaning of honesty as it relates to playing by the rules and making choices that support the common good. Students discuss and illustrate how people could respond honestly and dishonestly to the same situation. They learn vocabulary related to honesty.
Learners reflect on their own experience with trustworthy behavior or respond to a quote about trust.
Reflecting on a quote or a personal experience, students will share their thinking on responsibility defined as following through on a committment or task.
The learners will set a personal goal and describe self-discipline steps to meeting the goal. They will select quotations and reflect on their relevance to achieving their goal. ...
Students examine their personal healthy habits and their school (and neighborhood) environments to collect information about nutrition and fitness in the community. Students consider what changes they can make to the...
The class will examine and reflect on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to respect....
In this lesson, students discuss different types of lies and rate them in their severity and damage to others.
Students will define perseverance and identify the need to persevere in completing tasks. They will explore obstacles and excuses that deter perseverance....
Perseverance involves staying with a task even if it is difficult. Students identify obstacles they must overcome in order to stay on a task and/or reach a goal. Students identify having a plan and team work as strategies to persevere....
Self-Discipline is a little hard to define because it varies by personal experiences. This activity uses discussion and analysis to define self-discipline through examples and non-examples.