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KINDERGARTEN

Goal 1: Develop Self Awareness skills to achieve school and life success.

1A Identify and manage one's feelings (emotions) and behavior.

http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/lesplanwa.nsf/d8de5a7587da44308525692d0066c2fb/3ae0f4c9302f60c4852569ed004bad56?OpenDocument Grade Kindergarten

Honesty Roles and responsibilities towards self and others Jamaica’s Find by Havill

lang17 / Students can visualize a character or events from a story or book, and then personalize it through drawings.

Education World ® Lesson Plan: Fuzzy-Feeling Chair This activity teaches students to share positive thoughts and feelings about other students in the classroom, and to accept the positive thoughts of classmates.

CanTeach: Personal Planning: Personal Development - Sometimes I Feel Book Students will examine the feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, and fear and examine instances when these feelings are present as well as positive ways to react to these feelings. K-2

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

Feelings taken from the Georgia Learning Connection. The students will link feelings to interpretation of body language, and demonstrate knowledge by illustrating their own experiences.

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.

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

MEH0010 Go Away, Bad Dreams. / Using the book Go Away, Bad Dreams, to teach students that they can gain control over the emotion of fear. /Educator's Reference Desk

MEH0009 Monsters Are Make Believe./ A lesson to teach children that imagination is sometimes the cause of their fears; by using the book Go Away Big Green Monster! to stimulate a discussion about monsters and fears. Educator's Reference Desk

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons1.htm Grade K How Are You Peeling? by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers Recognizing and naming one’s emotions – Recognizing facial expressions in others – Understanding reasons and circumstances for feeling as one does – Learning how to express emotion’s effectively

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons2.htm K-2 Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis Understanding events trigger emotions – Each person has different triggers – Recognizing that we all have many feelings and feelings are neither right or wrong – Knowing feelings shift and change – Recognizing feelings influence behavior – Knowing feelings can be managed – Recognizing that feelings have expressions in our bodies

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons12.htm Grade Kdg

Eggbert, the Slightly Cracked Egg by Tim Ross Knowing and excepting who you are – Bouncing back from a negative situation – Others do not always know the true you- Your opinion matters more than anyone else’s – How to stand up for yourself – Knowing you can make yourself happy

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons3.htm Grade Kdg

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

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons13.htm Grade Kdg

Dinofours: I’m So Grumpy by Steve Metzger and Hans Wilhelm Differences between passive aggressive and assertive approaches to conflict – Name one’s emotions and connection to reasons and circumstances – How to manage feelings

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons4.htm Grades Kdg – 2

Rosie’s Story by Martine Gogoll Different ways to handle feelings – Expressing feelings in a positive way sometimes solves a problem – Use writing to express feelings – The power of hurtful words

http://pd.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/teachers/teacherslessons5.htm Grades Kdg – 2

Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens Describe and provide examples of short and long term goals – Connect character traits to reaching goals

1B Recognize personal strengths and abilities.

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

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc52.txt Who Am I Collage Building Self Esteem and Learning about others. Students will use an appropriate way to share facts about themselves, become aware of the uniqueness of themselves and others, and describe themselves orally to a group of peers.

Anti-Bias Books: Self Esteem Lesson Plan "Happy to Be Me", A lesson encouraging positive language in describing one's heritage, and a respect for self, using examples of poetry and literature such as Amazing Grace, as a starting point for discussion .

http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=10582 Using read alouds such as Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon to introduce students to good social skills and ethical responsibility, by discussing characters in a story and describing what decisions were made in the story.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Story_Telling/STT0009.html Students will be able to identify a character in a story and suggest actions for that character, using the book In the Tall, Tall Grass as a starting point. Character Building in a Story grades K-2

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".

1C Develop an understanding of the relationship between careers, interests and dreams.

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.

Education Center Activity: All of Me Social ?Studies/Art Activity Develop an appreciation of roles they fill in the family and the community.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Civics/CIV0005.html This lesson broadens students' ideas that community helpers always wear uniforms, and introduces the concept that it takes many people with many types of jobs to take care of a community.

CanTeach: Career Development - Career Collage Students will gather pictures from magazines that represent a variety of careers that they are interested in. The goal of this activity is to expose students to the numerous careers that exist in the world. K-2

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 Everyone is Special K

Career Awareness The Rhythms of Life K

Career Awareness Sharing K1

Career Awareness What do people do K1

Career Awareness Who Am I K1

Career Awareness Who Are You K2

Career Awareness I Feel Messages K2

Career Awareness Boys and Girls Do This K2

Career Awareness Feeling Face Pumpkins K2

Career Awareness Good Toys Bad Toys K2

Career Awareness People Connections K2

Career Awareness Religions and Traditions K2