SELF AWARENESS 5
Goal 1: Develop Self Awareness skills to achieve school and life success.
1A Identify and manage one's feelings (emotions) and behavior.
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: 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
Writing About Feelings Students will develop a knowledge of synonyms, develop dictionary and thesaurus skills, and write a descriptive piece about a specific topic.
I Feel You Feel ( conflict management-naming feelings) Students will learn appropriate positive communication, through the use of "I messages" and "You messages". Students will learn to express wants and needs in an assertive, nonthreatening manner.
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.
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.
Management of Grief and Loss Students will learn of coping behaviors realted to grief and loss by reading the book by Valerie Flournoy named The Patchwork Quilt ; this link can also introduce careers that deal with grief and loss. /Utah Education Network
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.
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
Emotions: Exploring Feelings Music Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Musical Teaching Idea1. The students will demonstrate through art an understanding of emotions as heard in music. 2. The students will discuss the differences found between major and minor keys in terms of emotions.
lang17 /Descriptive Character Analysis Lesson /Students can visualize a character or events from a story or book, and then personalize it through drawings, creative writing, or impersonating their character. Writing activities are linked to the creative activities.
CIV0014 Using children's books to stimulate good citizenship practices. Example: The Berenstain Bears to the Rescue by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
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
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/cecmisc/cecmisc.09.txt Self Esteem This lesson reinforces good listening skills, and thoughtful expression of feelings regarding another student. Students will experience good feelings that from positive experiences with their classmates.
It's My Life . Body . Drug Abuse . Getting It Straight | PBS Kids GO! Building self awareness for likes and dislikes, includes a journal page to help a student reflect upon how they feel about solo sports activities.
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/cecmisc/cecmisc.09.txt Self Esteem This lesson reinforces good listening skills, and thoughtful expression of feelings regarding another student. Students will experience good feelings that from positive experiences with their classmates.
Strategies for Empowering Students - Take A Look in the Mirror This lesson helps students to develop self awareness, appreciate their individuality, ethnicity, and cultural heritage. The lesson also integrates self awareness with the language arts skills.
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://yn.la.ca.us/cec/cecmisc/cecmisc.74.txt What is Self Esteem? Students will use a Venn Diagram to differentiate between the traits of low self esteem and high self esteem, then they will use a continuum to decide where their self esteem falls on the continuum for that day, and discuss whether or not their self esteem always stays at the same level.
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.
Lesson Plans Awareness of Self and Others / 1. List qualities that are valuable in friendship. 2. Recognize friendship qualities that the student possesses. 3. Prioritize a list of qualities according to how the student values them.
A Healthy Body Image Students will explore the impact of magazine advertisements on body image and indidivual purchasing.
Catching Fitness Fever Feeling Good About Yourself Grades 4-6
MEH0006 Who Am I Collage./Educator's Reference Desk/ 1) Students will use an appropriate way to share facts about themselves. 2) Students will become aware of the uniqueness of themselves and of others. 3) Students will describe orally to a group of peers who they are. 4) Students will find pictures or phrases to symbolize concepts of their personalities.
Patriotism Discuss all the ways in which Americans at home help the war effort. Meet Molly An American Girl by Valerie Trip
1C Develop an understanding of the relationship between careers, interests and dreams.
lp99e Do The Right Thing (1)/ This lesson will reinforce research and writing skills about the character trait 'responsibility'. This lesson also introduces students to the topics that relate to obtaining a career such as education needed, salary, and the description of the job duties. /NC Public Schools Character Education
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.
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 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
Career Awareness Art Aspects of Life 45
Career Awareness Coping With Trouble 45
Career Awareness Costs of Building a Dog House 45
Career Awareness Eggstronaut Launching 45
Career Awareness The Cafe Business 45
Career Awareness A Camping We Will Go 5
Career Awareness Movement of People Goods and Ideas 5
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