SELF AWARENESS 6
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
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.
Writing About Feelings Students will develop a knowledge of synonyms, develop dictionary and thesaurus skills, and write a descriptive piece about a specific topic.
Emotions and Feelings This lesson uses the novel "The Acorn People" by Ron Jones and technology to discuss feelings with other students, learn to listen better, look at problems and identify choices and consequences associated with the problem, and how solving problems can edify their personal skills with situations that surround them in their daily life.
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.
FAL0202 Discussing Divorce and Separation with Young Children./ Educator's Reference Desk
lp99m The Compliment Lesson / NC Public Schools Character Education Page/ The learner will understand that peace begins with the individual. The learner will affirm classmates in order to create an environment of acceptance. The learner will feel appreciated and affirmed.
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.
It's My Life . Emotions . Dealing With Anger . The Fire Inside | PBS Kids GO! This lesson talks about the many levels of anger, and offers an opportunity for further exploration of anger by using a journal page, classroom discussion questions, and a list of fiction and non-fiction books for future use by the teacher.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/emotions/anger/index.html Grade 6 PBS Series Dealing with Anger
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/emotions/death/index.html Grade 6 PBS Series Dealing with Death, Loss
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/emotions/depression/index.html Grade 6 PBS Depression: The Big Questions
1B Recognize personal strengths and abilities.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/emotions/kids/you_said_it_compare.html Grade 6 PBS Do you ever compare yourself to others?
lang17 / 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.
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". Click on "Elementary School Topics" to access " 7 Ideas to Promote Respect In Your Classroom".
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
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.
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.
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.
Self Acceptance Utah Education Network This lesson uses literature to introduce the topic of self-esteem, examples are: The Lion Who Couldn't Roar by Gary Hogg. / Acceptance of self and others.
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.
Self-Esteem--Health lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com Students will: explore the concept of self-esteem, analyze their personal strengths and weaknesses, and consider the role self-esteem plays in a healthy life. There are many response suggestions to stimulate a discussion about how a student can figure out his self-esteem levels in certain areas.
1C Develop an understanding of the relationship between careers, interests and dreams.
INT0020 Students will produce a research paper in which they recognize the elements of a fable and write an original fable, being sure to make connections to "morals" and other law-related concepts.
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.
Sample Lesson GIRAFFE HEROES This lesson introduces students to people who "stick their necks out" for others, and asks students to name two of their heroes who make a difference to others' lives. The entire program is based upon the idea of students stepping up to make a difference for others.
lp99o Literature link: In Search of Our Mother's? Gardens by Alice Walker. This lesson helps students identify positive character traits of their role models. / NC Public Schools Character Education Page
lp99r Future Destinations /The student will show, throught the use of media and technology, that Science knowledge is shared, critiqued and thrives on scrutiny by other scientists and the public. The student will logically discuss news articles addressing current societal and environemental issues in Science./ NC Public Schools Character Education Page
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi taken from the Georgia Learning Connection This lesson distinguishes between villains and heroes in literature, by identifying the character traits that can be associated with each personality. (Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a short story taken from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
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