Learners dissect the trait of honesty by describing what it feels and looks like, defining it, and giving examples and nonexamples....
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Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 6)
Unit: We are the Positive School Culture
A positive school climate is made up of people making choices about how to act and treat one another. It is everyone's responsibility to be a good school citizen. Students identify what traits they value most and survey the school population to identify what is going well and what students feel...
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 6)
The students will define self-discipline and compare and contrast discipline and self-discipline.
Unit: Endangered Species--It's Not Too Late
The purpose of this lesson is to give each learner an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of an endangered species (animal) of their own choosing. Each learner will "adopt" an endangered animal to research. They will then write and...
Unit: Philanthropy 101 Course of The Westminster Schools
To introduce students to the differences between businesses and nonprofit organizations and key terms used in each sector....
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 8)
The learners imagine life changes one, four and five years from the present time. They determine skills and attitudes of self-discipline that will help them be successful in the future....
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 8)
Students discover that aligning with groups can promote conflict and judging others. They discuss and write about ways to include and show respect for people not in their groups.
Unit: Book Builders
In an effort to strengthen community, students draft and share a book about a character traits. Students learn the importance of community by evaluating the traits required to make a community healthy and functional. Students will publish their completed books and share their works with...
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (6-8)
Students take action by participating in an activity that raises awareness about schools that do not have sufficient resources.
Unit: Refugees: Finding a Place
During this lesson students will remember a time when they felt left out of a group. They will explore how this made them feel, what they did to try to fit into the group and what the group could have done to include them. The students will learn about social groups. They will identify the...