SELF AWARENESS 3
Goal 1: Develop Self Awareness skills to achieve school and life success.
1A Identify and manage one's feelings (emotions) and behavior.
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1398.html Grade 3
The Quilt Story Tony Johnson Making an emotional connection to a quilt story – Recognizing mementos that make students feel good – Ideal mementos to pass on to future generations
http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons3.htm This lesson is listed as a kindergarten lesson, but I linked it here because When Sophie Gets Angry... is one of the read aloud choices for Third Grade.
When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang; Angry feelings are normal and can be managed –Different people handle anger in different ways –Recognize one’s emotions – Others may see things differently than you do
Anger Triggers Teaching students to identify anger triggers in others.
Linda Davenport (5 lessons for dealing with anger)helping children learn to deal with their anger and aggression in acceptable ways by teaching them problem solving skills.
Expressing visual cues of anger in an Art form Students will recognize that anger has visible outward signs. They will also recognize their own body cues and those of others when they are angry.
I Feel You Feel ( conflict management-naming feelings) This lesson communicates and reinforces using "I messages" rather than "You messages" to express needs in an assertive and non-threatening manner.
Emotional Puppets - An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Students will explore their own emotions and thereby further develop self-understanding, and they will also realize that not everyone reacts to the same experience in the same manner.
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 - 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
CanTeach: Information - Concept Definition Mapping this Lesson will help students to focus on key components of a word and to be encouraged to combine what they already know with what they have just learned about the definition of the word. This concept map can be used with a variety of topics, and can be used with feeling words. 3-6
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.
FAL0202 Discussing Divorce and Separation with Young Children. Educator's Reference Desk
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
copingstrategies Students will learn to categorize coping strategies as positive, negative, neutral and time out behaviors. / teachablemoment.org
Screaming Emotions - An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Using the book Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt to talk about and identify emotions.
Out on a Limb - Instructors' Guide Offers suggestions for listening and communication skills.
Out on a Limb - Instructors' Guide Offers strategies to teach good listening skills and understanding body language.
It's My Life . School . My Teacher Hates Me | PBS Kids GO! This page allows students to look at their perceptions of situations between themselves and their teachers.
Emotions: Exploring Feelings Music Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Musical Teaching Idea The student will talk about different emotions the music made them feel during this activity, and why they think they felt those emotions. Using the book My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss.
Writing About Feelings Students will develop a knowledge of synonyms, develop dictionary and thesaurus skills, and write a descriptive piece about a specific topic.
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.
Vincent Van Gogh Lesson Plan Using an art work to teach students to see feelings. Students will understand that creating and looking at art can bring out a variety of feelings, that they can use art to reflect their own feelings, and use art to write about feelings that they have when they see certain art pieces.
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.
1B Recognize personal strengths and abilities.
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/357.shtml Grades 3-5 Libby Bloom
Students exploring friendship, family, activism and self-confidence
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - This Is the Life Of... Students will express their personal characteristics through items that they bring from home . Classmates will be introduced to each other by deducing who the bag belongs to. 3-6
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
Education World® : Teacher Lesson Plans : Self-Esteem/Class Pride Students will be able to reflect upon and list 5 unique talents. The class as a whole will see that they are a talented group.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc52.txt Who Am I Collage Building Self Esteem and Learning about others. Students will describe self orally to others.
Education World ® Lesson Plan: Fuzzy-Feeling Chair Students improve their self-confidence and self-esteem.
History, Geography, or Government The purpose of this activity is to build self-esteem and let children to be exposed to other cultures.
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.
Education World® : Teacher Lesson Plans : Self-Esteem/Class Pride Students will be able to reflect upon and list 5 unique talents. The class as a whole will see that they are a talented group.
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.
CIV0014 Using children's books to stimulate good citizenship practices. Example: The Berenstain Bears to the Rescue by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
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 Bum Bum Bum Here I Come Grade 3
Career Awareness The Many Faces of Me 3
Career Awareness Job Choices 3
Career Awareness Pen Pal Cards 3
Career Awareness Work is Fun 34
Career Awareness Make the Connection School to Work 35
Career Awareness Graphing Jobs 35
Career Awareness Peer Pressure Reversal 35
Career Awareness Problem Solving 35
Career Awareness the Great New Car Hunt 35
Career Awareness Graphing Jobs 35
Career Awareness How Do Families Work 35
Career Awareness How Does a Baker KNow What to Bake 35
Career Awareness Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal 35
Career Awareness Career Identification 35
Career Awareness Careers Interesting to Me 35
Career Awareness Class Signs 35
Career Awareness Decision Making in Farming 35
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