SOCIAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS 6
Goal 2: Develop social and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships.
2A Demonstrate friendship skills to interact effectively with others.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc73.txt Grades K-6- A Friendship Chain
To facilitate a student’s ability to express positive feelings towards another person and to help build class unity
It's My Life . Friends . When Friends Fight | PBS Kids GO! This lesson offers suggestions for students who are handling conflicts with friends.
It's My Life . Friends . When Friends Fight | PBS Kids GO! This lesson introduces the strategy of thinking before acting when a friend has hurt you.
It's My Life . Friends . When Friends Fight | PBS Kids GO! This lesson introduces the technique of talking to a friend that has hurt you.Teachers can download an "I message Worksheet" that can assist students in identifying and dealing with their feelings.
It's My Life . Family . Sibling Rivalry . You vs. Them | PBS Kids GO! This web page offers suggestions for students who are experiencing trouble with a brother or a sister. There is a downloadable journal page that allows children to record their experiences and thoughts about the situation. There are also fiction and non-fiction books that address the subject of sibling rivalry.
Introducing students to the Autobiopoem. Students introduce themselves by writing a poem about themselves by using two words in each line of the poem.
Class Books – Getting to know each other is the theme for students as they practice verbal communication skills through the process of conducting personal interviews. Students will also compose and revise a well-formed paragraph based upon the interviews, including skills in using graphic organizers. Students will gain knowledge of the interests and talents of peers. grades 3-6
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0140.html/ Students will: work cooperatively with another student, develop thinking skills, and use problem solving skills they have learned or work from prior experience.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0074.html/ Students will learn character traits to work with others more effectively.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0039.html/ Students will be able to think about the need for rules in their lives, compare and contrast their rules with others, take an active part in making a set of classroom rules, and demonstrate an understanding of the need for classroom rules.
Community - Community-Building Activities / Energizers - Social Studies Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Teaching Idea Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to cooperate with others to accomplish a goal.
INT0199/ Students will work cooperatively to create a free standing tower of straws and pins, while the teacher videotapes their groups in action. Students will then view the videos and discuss the processes that took place within the groups, and analyze their own performance for ways that they could have been a more productive team member.
440 Students will learn to: define teamwork, work together and brainstorm 3-4 words for what teamwork means to them, and develop three or four positive guidelines for working with a group together.
2B Use manners appropriately when relating to others.
CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Chain of Compliments Students will give and receive compliments to and from their classmates; this activity promotes self-esteem and cooperation. 1-6
FACS:Social Skills (Independence) Crossroads of Character, based upon Emotional Intelligences. Students will identify unacceptable social behaviors and them describe how to replace those behaviors with acceptable behaviors.
It's My Life . Friends . Gossip And Rumors . Did You Hear? | PBS Kids GO! This site introduces students to basic information about rumors and gossip; why people gossip, and what can be done to stop rumors and gossip.
There are also fiction and non-fiction literature lists, and journal pages which can be downloaded to help students process and reflect on the times they have been exposed to certain situations.
2C Demonstrate an ability to prevent, manage, and resolve interpersonal conflicts in constructive ways.
It's My Life . Friends . Gossip And Rumors . Did You Hear? | PBS Kids GO! This site introduces students to basic information about rumors and gossip; why people gossip, and what can be done to stop rumors and gossip.
There are also fiction and non-fiction literature lists, and journal pages which can be downloaded to help students process and reflect on the times they have been exposed to certain situations.
2D Demonstrate respect for individual and group differences.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/tguide/teaching_6-8.htm Grade 6
The focus for this link is to learn about one of the largest cultural groups in the United States, Hispanic Americans, and the contributions they have made to this country and the world.
http://www.edhelper.com/DailyThemes_710.html Grades K-6 Disabilities Day Abilities Day Thematic Unit Celebrated December 22
Strategies for Empowering Students - Old Wisdom, New Learnings Students will be motivated to use inference skills, critical thinking skills, and develop an understanding and an appreciation of their own and other's cultures.
Students will gain an understanding for the Hispanic Culture, by using technology to research information on the culture, use graphic organizers to record the found information, use good writing style to develop an ABC Book of Hispanic Culture. The poem The New Colussus by Emma Lazarus will be used as an example. Grades 3-12
Cultural Awareness/Sharing Traditions - An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan This lesson addresses the topic of breaking down the walls (cliques) that develop as students grow older. Students will list cultural differences, attitudes, and traditions which show that all families are different in some way. Students will also list similarities and differences within the team, so that they can better know and understand students within the classroom.
Good Apples; in this lesson the students will understand that the differences among people have a positive value to society, that such differences add to the quality interest and value to our lives, and realize that although we are different we have many things in common. Grades 3-6
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Social_Studies/Multicultural_Education Students will be able to become more familiar with different populations in their local community by looking at different elements of the population such as: artifacts of each group, identifying the groups' home countries along with their history and political climates, and learning about the festivals and celebrations that come from each group.
Students will develop a sense of shared humanity, look at stereotypes of themselves and others, learn to differentiate between fact and conjecture, and to grasp the power of ideas and character in history.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/conflict/index.html University of Illinois Getting Along with Others / Out on a Limb Program
FAL0001 In a small group setting, students will get to know group members by sharing the cultural traditions that make their family unique. This activity will show that all families are different and that it is okay to be unique. After the activity students will be able to: list the cultural differences that show that families are different in some way, list the similarities within the families in the team, and ultimately understand their classmates better.
diversitymulticulturalism Multicultural Music and Songs that Build an Appreciation of Diversity
LESSONS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH CHARACTERS IN STORIES:
CanTeach: Information - You are What You Say: Personality Profiles Students will develop personality profiles by analyzing quotes of a character, a historical figure, a present day figure, etc... 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Different Perspectives: A Graphic Organizer Students will be introduced to the idea of having more than one perspective after reading a text, by re-reading for perspectives of each character in the text. 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Follow the Character Students will organize the main information about a character, which may help them better understand the character as well as the author's theme in a story. 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Sort and Predict Students will make predictions about what the text may be about by applying what they already know about categorizing to the present information given in the text. 3-6
CanTeach: Information - Interviewing a Historical Figure This activity can be used to apply to character traits seen in historical figures, and to stimulate a discussion about why this person was successful and made a difference. 5-6
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Novel & Picture Book Activities - Dear Character 3-6
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Novel & Picture Book Activities - Examining a Change in Character 4-6
CanTeach: English Language Arts: Novel & Picture Book Activities - Introduction to Character Traits 4-6
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang.29.txt Grades K-6 Students will have a better understanding of a character and character traits.
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang.39.txt Grades K-6 Students identify with characters in a story by inferring character traits.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang29.txt Grades K-6 Students think about a character and how that character thinks about life. Character comparison and contrast – Identification through trait descriptions – Use of Character Webs
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/05-1/lesson021.shtml Grades 3-6 Stir up a Character Analysis Recipe
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/05-1/lesson003.shtml Grades 3-6
Holes Louis Sacher Drawing conclusions based on the attributes of a character in a story – Use of T-chart – Character Analysis Rubric – Oral Presentation Rubric
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