Grades:
6
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Students gain insight into differing perspectives by examining a scenarios and engaging in a debate about the benefits/consequences of taking or avoiding responsibility. ...
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Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 8)
Unit: Character Education: Caring (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners determine different ways that they show caring. They write the things they care about in word webs related to "how" they care about each thing.
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
The students will examine the role of discipline in their lives, in the lives of others and in a civil society....
Unit: Character Education: Caring (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners get inspiration from the work and words of Mother Teresa about performing small acts of kindness. They select a project and make a plan for carrying out a small act of kindness with a group or individually.
Unit: Character Education: Caring (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners discover how celebrities demonstrate their caring by giving their time, talent and treasure and taking action for specific causes. It gives the learners an opportunity to begin to think of what they care about....
Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
In Lesson Two, students examine the second part of the definition of integrity: doing what's right....
Grades:
6
7
8
This third lesson on integrity focuses on Frederik de Klerk as an example of integrity....
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the learners will become familiar with vocabulary and concepts associated with self-discipline. They will examine the correlation between self-discipline and maturity....
Unit: Lights! Camera! Take Action!
Grades:
9
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11
12
Students view and discuss the DVD The Gift of All: a Community of Givers and identify the influences and attributes of the generous people interviewed. Students read, summarize, and report on short biographies of philanthropists. Students write journal reflections and create a four-...
Unit: Our Unique Legacy of Giving
Grades:
6
7
8
Students watch the documentary The Gift of All: a Community of Givers and identify the motivations and attributes of the generous people interviewed. Students read, summarize, and report on short biographies of philanthropists. Student writing includes metaphors and journal reflections...