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SELF AWARENESS 2

Goal 1: Develop Self Awareness skills to achieve school and life success.

1A Identify and manage one's feelings (emotions) and behavior.

Emotions: Exploring Feelings Music Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Musical Teaching Idea The student will four different emotions the music made them feel during this activity, and why they think they felt those emotions.

CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Sometimes I Feel Book Students will examine the feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, and fear and examine instances when these feelings are present as well as positive ways to react to these feelings. K-2

CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Dramatic Feelings Students will examine a feeling word and represent it in a dramatic presentation. Through this students will present and observe different situations that different feelings can exist in. K-6

CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Spinning Feelings Game Students will examine the feelings and the typical feelings to certain situations. K-3

CanTeach: Information: gathering, analyzing, interpreting - Anticipation Guides These guides can be used to allow students to write down how they feel about statements that they heard in a story, and after reading the story to write down how a specific character feels about the same statements. This guide is beneficial in helping students to understand how decisions are made as well as how decisions can change with experience or exposure to certain information. 2-6

Forgiving:: Lesson Plan, Activity, or Teaching Idea from A to Z Teacher Stuff Students will learn the meaning of fogiveness, how to forgive someone and seek someone's forgiveness, and how giving and seeking forgiveness can dispel bad feelings.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0043.html Children will be able to identify their feelings in relation to the weather, express their feelings, and draw a picture of the weather reflecting their feelings.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0091.html Students will describe the different emotions the music made them feel while doing the activity, and why they think they felt these emotions.

http://www.csee.net/LessonPlans.asp?id=13 Coping with Loss K-4 as appropriate

A lesson which enhances a student's sense of self, an awareness of others, and empathetic abilities.

MEH0201 Being Brave and Dealing With Fear./ A lesson that uses the story The Brave Little Monster to help students to learn how to be brave when dealing with fear. The student learns to identify different types of fear, and talk about appropriate ways to respond to different fearful situations. / Educator's Reference Desk

MEH0010 Go Away, Bad Dreams. / Using the book Go Away, Bad Dreams, to teach students that they can gain control over the emotion of fear. /Educator's Reference Desk

Out on a Limb - Instructors' Guide Offers suggestions for listening and communication skills.

Colleen-poetry Using Visual Art to identfy emotions (Vincent Van Gogh).

Lesson Plan: Emotion in Art and Poetry Visual art can be used to teach students that understanding and creating art can bring out a variety of feelings, can be used to allow students to express their own emotions, and that visual art can express ideas that cannot be expressed by words alone.

lang17 / Students can visualize a character or events from a story or book, and then personalize it through drawings.

Civics/Government- Citizenship

CIV0014 Using children's books to stimulate good citizenship practices. Example: The Berenstain Bears to the Rescue by Stan and Jan Berenstain.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Story_Telling/STT0009.html Students will be able to identify a character in a story and suggest actions for that character, using the book In the Tall, Tall Grass as a starting point.

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons2.htm K-2 Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis Understanding events trigger emotions – Each person has different triggers – Recognizing that we all have many feelings and feelings are neither right or wrong – Knowing feelings shift and change – Recognizing feelings influence behavior – Knowing feelings can be managed – Recognizing that feelings have expressions in our bodies

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons4.htm Grades Kdg – 2

Rosie’s Story by Martine Gogoll Different ways to handle feelings – Expressing feelings in a positive way sometimes solves a problem – Use writing to express feelings – The power of hurtful words

1B Recognize personal strengths and abilities.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc52.txt Who Am I Collage Building Self Esteem and Learning about others. Students will use an appropriate way to share facts about themselves, become aware of the uniqueness of themselves and others, and describe themselves orally to a group of peers.

Education World ® Lesson Plan: Fuzzy-Feeling Chair Students improve their self-confidence and self-esteem.

The My Hero Project Inspiration and motivation for students. Students will describe the characteristics of a hero, recognize the heroes in a story, and distinguish between a hero and a celebrity.

MEH0006 Who Am I Collage.Students will use an appropriate way to share facts about themselves, become aware of the uniqueness of themselves and others, and describe themselves to a group of peers. Educator's Reference Desk:

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Whole_Language/WLG0013.html Using the story Angela's Wings to foster an acceptance of others, and also an ability to discover the gifts that lie within each of us.

1C Develop an understanding of the relationship between careers, interests and dreams.

Character Education: General Lesson Plan Using four different work stations (centers) to introduce children to the pillars of character.

http://allaboutrespect.net/ A good site. Click on "Respect Tools" to find: "Family Respect Check", " Weekly Respect Ideas ", "Showing Respect When You Make a Mistake", and "Lesson in Respect".

CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Me Collage Students will use pictures from a variety of sources to tell about themselves; this activity allows students to reflect on their lives as well as to introduce themselves to their classmates. K-6

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Civics/CIV0005.html This lesson broadens students' ideas that community helpers always wear uniforms, and introduces the concept that it takes many people with many types of jobs to take care of a community.

CanTeach: Career Development - Career Collage Students will gather pictures from magazines that represent a variety of careers that they are interested in. The goal of this activity is to expose students to the numerous careers that exist in the world. K-2

The following lessons were taken from the internet version of the Elementary Career Awareness Guide developed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, NC Job Ready, and the NC State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee.:

Career Awareness Where are the oceans 12

Career Awareness I Found Me 12

Career Awareness Jobs for Students 12

Career Awareness Teammates 12

Career Awareness The Person Who 12

Career Awareness Who Are You K2

Career Awareness I Feel Messages K2

Career Awareness Boys and Girls Do This K2

Career Awareness Feeling Face Pumpkins K2

Career Awareness Good Toys Bad Toys K2

Career Awareness People Connections K2

Career Awareness Religions and Traditions K2