Grades:
6
7
8
Learners look at different scenarios and explore the pros and cons of acting with integrity when no one is watching.
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Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
In three scenarios that challenge one's integrity, the young people discuss and provide rationale for their decision-making.
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
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Grades:
3
4
5
After learning about the definition of respect toward self and others, we explore the idea of respect for property or the environment.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
In response to the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, learners reflect on the barriers and challenges to addressing an unfair situation. Given a list of ways to respond to unfair situations, they match them to a list of unfair situations.
Grades:
6
7
8
This lesson challenges learners to think of their personal responsibility to act when they observe unfair treatment. They respond to a scenario and work in small groups to make a plan of action in a specific situation of their choosing.
Unit: Character Education: Integrity (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
We explore the integrity of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who fought for the rights of women when many people disagreed they should be allowed to vote. She was strong in her cause for women, but in the mid-1800s, she didn't speak up for Black women who were fighting the same right to vote.
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners investigate their perceptions about bullying and its relationship to respect. They brainstorm ways to promote respect of self and others as individuals and as a group.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners compare the meaning of justice with fairness and distinguish the meanings of fair, just, equal, and equitable. They write a definition for each term and display it on the wall for the duration of the unit.
Unit: Phil Up on the Arts
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Grades:
K
1
2
Young people listen to a story, summarize the main idea, and then act it out together. They identify the theme of community and describe the benefits of cooperation for the common good.
Unit: Pitch In Philanthropic Puppet Project
Grades:
3
4
5
In this lesson, young people create story scripts from the research and facts collected in Lesson One: Digging Up the Facts. The scripts include setting, one character per child, problem, solution, and a beginning, middle and end. Young people edit and...