SELF AWARENESS:
Short Activities
Respect
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation/handbook/html/p30.html
Responsibility
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation/handbook/html/p30.html
Perseverance
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation/handbook/html/p41.html
Courage
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation/handbook/html/p44.html
Integrity
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation/handbook/html/p47.html
Self-discipline
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation/handbook/html/p51.html
A Few Things I’m Thankful For
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/charactereducation/handbook/html/p68.html
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/char_ed/pubs/icare/int.html K-6 Activities
Integrity Concepts: Courage, Honesty, Honorableness, Fairness, Conscientiousness
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/char_ed/pubs/icare/comp.html K-6 Activities
Compassion Concepts: Self-esteem, Self-worth, Respect, Courtesy, Sympathy, Service, Empathy, Charity
http://allaboutrespect.net/ A good site. Click on "Respect Tools" to find: "Respectful Listening" activity.
MEH0004 Who's in the Bag?/ Students introduce theirself to another student by using personal items from home. Educator's Reference Desk
metaphors Students will examine how feelings are described and expressed in the poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and they will use a literary device to write about their feelings./www.teachablemoment.org
listeningcircle Teaches students to say what they are thinking and feeling, and can help facilitate mutual understanding and support during stressful times. / www.teachablemoment.org
6to8activities /These lessons offer suggestions for perspective taking, feelings awareness, and problem solving. / Committee for Children. Links to Science and the environment are also supported in this lesson.
Lessons to support Social and Emotional Learning/Student Empowerment:
strat138 What's In a Name?/ To help students reflect on their self-worth and enhance their self-concepts, to promote the students' appreciation of their individuality, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, and to foster the integration of the language arts skills.
strat141 I Am What I Think I Am! / To help students learn how to think, using their experiences and metacognitive skills, to help students realize their affective, conative, and cognitive strengths, and to have students understand that they have some control and power in being the "masters of their own fate".
strat144 Say What You Mean! (Interpretation of Maxims) /To motivate students to read , to encourage students to use their critical thinking skills, to foster cooperative learning and shared experiences, and to promote an understanding and appreciation of one's own culture as well as those of others
Lesson Plan: Unexpressed Emotions Students will learn how unexpressed emotions can be self destructive, and find ways to manage their own personal emotional style. Taken from the Dunebrook site.
MULTICULTURAL ACTIVITIES:
culturalbanners Students will work cooperatively to create a "cultural banner" that expresses values, traditions, activities, and places that are important in their families./ www.teachablemoment.org
exploring_stereotypes Discuss what is meant by stereotype, and that stereotypes are often made based upon incomplete information.
The School for Ethical Education Site offers links to both teacher's and student's guides for working with students in the areas of Acting on Shared Values, an Ideal year, a Single Act of Kindness, and "Harriet Tubman Didn't Take No Stuff". Both guides are downloadable, and in Adobe Acrobat format. The guides and activities support community building, courage, and character traits.
This link is a teacher's guide which offers strategies for the topics of:
conflict Resolution styles, communication skills, listening, perceptions, and steps to think and share. The activities are structured so that they offer a web activity, an objective, a time frame, background information, assessing what the students already know, an activity, and a worksheet.
activities / Out on a Limb Program
One example of the conflict resolution activities from this link is loaded here:
This webpage is written in student friendly terms, and is written in a conversational manner. It would be a good resource for talking with children about their anger. There are also links to being the boss of your anger, conflict resolution, feelings and emotions, being teased, anger, "Getting the feel "good" chemicals working", and feeling lonely.
Charlotte's Web Activities /Based upon the topic of friendship.
Activities for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis. Focuses upon responsibility.
feelingscharade A means to teach students to express and acknowledge feelings, as well as understanding some elses point of view./ www.teachablemoment.org
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