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In this lesson, learners explore different ways communication can be changed through interpretation and intentional misleading.
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Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 8)
Unit: Take a Stand on Bullying
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Grades:
6
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8
Students work in small groups to research and present a step-by-step plan to take action to prevent bullying behavior at school. They share their presentations and then select one plan to carry out.
Unit: Power and Race in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Grades:
6
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8
Readers examine the lasting effects of power, privilege, and discrimination on communities.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.
Unit: Community Impact
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Grades:
6
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8
In this three-day lesson, students analyze self-esteem in themselves and in fictional and nonfictional characters. They discuss the value of having a positive and realistic image of oneself and set goals for developing self-esteem in self and others by identifying strengths and personal talents/...
Unit: Investing In Others
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The youth reflect on basic needs that may be difficult to meet when one doesn’t have a home. They take action by creating personal hygiene kits or asking a local nonprofit how they can help support their efforts to assist people who are homeless.
Unit: Healthy Youth, Healthy Community (6-8)
Grades:
6
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8
Students analyze survey results, choose a community health need, and design a service project to address it.
Unit: TeachOne for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Grades:
6
7
8
Students use visual literacy skills to analyze the components and message of an image. They listen carefully and seek to understand the different opinions and perspectives of their classmates. The students identify issues that are meaningful to them and create a simple image and text to...
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Students use visual literacy skills to talk about an artistic image. They listen respectfully to the different opinions and perspectives of their classmates. The students identify a need at their school and create a simple image that tells others to think differently or take action to improve...
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Grades:
3
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5
Students write to pen pals in a different community and discuss ideas related to a service project. For example, the pen pals may plan and monitor a canned-good donation project.