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8th grade character education Common Core W.6.4 resources
Character Education, Sudoku Puzzles Lesson, Growth Mindset, First Week of School
A week of Growth Mindset lessons + Student Growth Mindset Survey. Great First Week of School activities to teach students HOW to struggle using Sudoku Puzzles. This life-long tool is great for the first week of school! Use it during Back to School season with your new class to set the tone for a year of learning!Teach important lessons if you ever need to fill a period.Use this anytime to hit the re-start button in your classroom community.Great for sub plans: it's fun, "easier" work that still
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6th - 10th
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STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Anti-Bullying Campaign - Bullying Group Project - Bullying Prevention Lesson
This bullying prevention activity is the PERFECT anti-bullying group project to engage middle school and high school students in real-world discussions about bullying and ways to prevent it at your school. The anti-bullying campaign is a student-centered activity that turns your students into researchers and teachers. Students will work together with a group of their classmates to research the harmful effects of bullying and ways to stop it. The best part of this collaborative activity is that s
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6th - 9th
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STEM: Acts of Kindness Project
It's Back to School time - Plan ahead for a great school year!
Critical Thinking and Service Learning are Common Core! Great for the beginning of the year, Open House, or use it anytime throughout the year.
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing. Teach them to Pay it Forward!
This service learning project incorporates critical thinking, research, and problem solving.
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Teacher U
Grades:
4th - 12th, Staff
Student SMART Goal Setting | Template | Worksheet | Graphic Organizer | SEL
Everyone says "work smarter, not harder." Use the SEOT Wheel of Success so students can independently reflect on whether they are working "harder" (effort alone) or working "smarter" (learning from mistakes.)Student SMART Goal Setting Lesson Slideshow (100 slides) explains to students how to set goals and fill out the Student Goal Setting worksheets. Student Goal Setting Graphic Organizer Students can visually see if they're working harder or working smarter.Student Goal Setting Template Student
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Year of Bell Ringers: Motivational Monday Quote Prompts Expansion Pack #2
Mondays are hard for students and teachers alike. Ease into the period with an inspirational quote and thought-provoking writing prompts. The quotes I used are meaningful and relevant to students; many of my students said they looked forward to reading and writing about the prompts each Monday. And the best part? They promote a positive growth mindset that is reinforced each week and all week long. This pack is a second expansion pack to my first resource; however, it can be used alone or with t
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jen W.
Growth Mindset ELA Skill Review Bell Ringer | SEL Bundle | Digital Printable
This bundle helps you address the social-emotional learning and mental health needs in your classroom while simultaneously covering your ELA and writing content. These no-prep spiralled language review activities are great as centers, bell ringers, morning work, or individual worksheets. Fiction and nonfiction texts cover a range from brain science to positive psychology with various reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing responses. Students engage in evidence-based practices that
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5th - 8th
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Growth Mindset ELA Skill Review Bell Ringers SEL Activities | Digital Printable
Struggling to address the social-emotional learning and mental health needs in your classroom between all the content you have to cover? Do both with these no-prep, spiralled ELA writing and language review activities that are great as centers, bell ringers, morning work, or independent worksheets. Fiction and nonfiction texts cover a range from brain science to positive psychology with various reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing responses. Students engage in evidence-based pra
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5th - 8th
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Trash or Treasure: Analysis from Multiple Perspectives
A lawsuit was filed against the city of Washington D.C. on behalf of their homeless citizen. The lawsuit alleges that 1,000's of important personal items have been thrown away by city workers clearing homeless encampments. Is this an issue of public health and safety?Is it wrong to throw away the belongings of people who already have so little?Is it a violation of the 4th amendment?The answers to those questions will probably depend on who you ask. In Trash or Treasure: Analysis from Multiple
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6th - 8th
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Make it Right: Making and Evaluating Tough Decisions
A 15-year-old boy spent Labor Day weekend playing with fireworks. His friends recorded him throwing them into a canyon. That act started a massive forest fire and an Oregon judge ordered him to pay almost $37 million in restitution. Did the judge make the right decision?A 5-year-old boy in Kansas knocked over a statue on display at a community center. The $132,000 statue broke. Should his parents foot the bill?"Make it Right" puts your students in the role of the judge as they analyze these
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6th - 8th
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March 2024 SEL Morning Meeting Slides featuring Steve Hartman Kindness 101
Daily Google Slides that you can use to launch your Morning Meeting/ Social Emotional Activities with your SPED/ Gen Ed/ Multi-Grade classroom.Fully editableIncludes Fun Fact of the DayWould you rather questions to launch discussionsDaily videos to support social emotional learningThought-provoking Question of the Day Writing Prompt*** These slides align to dates in the 2023-2024 school year. Follow us to be notified when new slides are posted for the upcoming school year.***
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Year Long Bundle: SEL Morning Meeting Google Slides: August- May 23-24
December 2023 SEL Morning Meeting Slides featuring Steve Hartman's Kindness 101
Fully interactive and editable Google Slides with Morning Meeting activities and Steve Hartman Kindness 101 videos.No prepCCSS aligned.Daily Fun fact of the Day for each school day from December 1-31, 2023Would you rather activities for each day of the monthWriting prompts that are SEL- basedGrades 4-8 & SPEDSteve Hartman's video lessons on compassion, empathy, and several other topics*These slides line up to the dates for the 2023-2024 school year.**
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4th - 8th
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November 2023 SEL Morning Meeting Slides featuring Steve Hartman's Kindness 101
SEL Morning Meeting Slidesfeaturing Steve Hartman Kindness 101 and other Social/Emotional Learning Promptseach slide contains a fun fact of the daywould you rather game; use as a discussion prompt: relates to video/ fun factjournal/class discussion prompt for daily useGoogle Slide / printable optionDaily slide for each school day from October 1-31 2023.*These slides line up to the dates for the 2023-2024 school year.**
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4th - 8th
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June 2024 SEL Morning Meeting Slides featuring Steve Hartman Videos: Creativity
Use this daily slide show to get your class writing, talking, and reflecting each day! Each daily slide features:Fun Fact of the DayWould you rather questionVideo link to Social Skills topicWriting prompt*** These slides align to dates in the 2023-2024 school year. Follow us to be notified when new slides are posted for the upcoming school year.***This month's theme is: Creativity
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Mindfulness Activities - Character Education Posters & Quotes - Kid Awards
Kids Caught Doing Great Things includes 12 posters and 12 student activity sheets featuring 24 quotes of all the positive character traits found on the Kid Caught Doing Great Things awards. Together, these posters and activities reinforce the positive qualities we’d all like to see and possess. Perfect for back to school!Posters include a Digging Deeper written reflection about what the quotes mean to each of your kids. They make a great writing center or a warmup activity.Student Activity pages
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5th - 8th
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Starfish by Lisa Fipps Novel in Verse Middle School Guide
Starfish by Lisa Fipps Printable & Digital Novel Guide is perfect for teaching about bullying, stereotypes, main idea and details, poetry elements, character analysis and growth, coming-of-age, new vocabulary and much MORE! This resource includes: Learning objectivesReading comprehension questions Answer keyText to self connections Themes activityElements of poetry activitiesStory map activity Character analysisMain Ideas & Supporting Details Activity New Vocabulary ActivitiesExtension R
Grades:
5th - 8th
Conflict Management Unit
This unit takes students on a deep dive into Conflict Management. Skills such as escalation and de-escalation, anger management, anti-bullying, and forgiveness are all discussed. The unit includes 6 lesson plan presentations all including daily assignments and journals, a WebQuest, a vocab quiz and answer key, and a final project.The WebQuest in this unit is the Anti-Bullying Exploration WebQuest which is also available as a standalone purchase in my product listings. The final group project req
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6th - 12th
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Kindness Poster & Activity - Character Education
Kindness is a character trait we strive for in our classrooms, as well as our communities. This poster/activity set is designed to have students think about ways to show kindness in their lives.The poster is based on Aesop's Fable, "The Lion and the Mouse." A fun extension is to have students read the fable and write one of their own, using the theme: Kindness.This student activity page has students creating their own Kindness posters, including a different quote from the class poster, brainsto
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5th - 8th
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Friendship Journal Writing FREEBIE for BIG KIDS
Each school year brings new students, new enthusiasm for learning, and unfortunately at times, new issues and problems that students need considerable help navigating. One area I feel is a work in progress each year is helping my almost middle school girls and boys work through their frustrations, aggravations, and complete annoyance with one another. Often it starts outside of school, but quickly it becomes a huge issue that impacts learning because my students are so worked up. One day thes
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4th - 8th, Staff
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Respect Unit
This unit takes students on a deep dive into all aspects of respect. The material gives students the opportunities to learn about respect from the perspective of boundaries and consent. All forms of boundaries are discussed including setting and respecting body boundaries from a non-sexually specific standpoint. The included WebQuest is the Teen Dating Violence WebQuest that is available as a standalone purchase among my available product listings. The unit should take about 7 90-minute class pe
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Goal Setting and Achievement Unit
This unit covers goal setting, motivational strategies, goal tracking, and achievement. It's an excellent addition to any class centered on life skills, college prep, athletics, and more. It is a short unit that would cover 3 full 90-minute class periods, and one partial class period serving as a wrap-up and catch-up day with a journal and discussion. The unit includes 3 full lesson plans including journals and daily assignments, a graphic organizer, worksheets, and a final project.The final pro
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6th - 12th
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Writing: Memory Book Themed "Puttin' on the Ritz!"
Introduction to the Resource:This resource is sure to engage all of your students in many ways and lends itself for great flexibility throughout! The resource, in length, is a total of 100 pages. Approximately half of the resource is devoted to “looking back” or reflecting on 2020 and what can be learned for future success and growth in 2021 which comprises the later half of the resource.Section One Reflections of 2020:This section is packed full of activities for the students to be engaged in r
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3rd - 10th
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6Cs Character v2.8 (Folder 1 of 5) Distance Learning & Google Classroom ready
This was folder 1 (of 5) for the Educircles.org 6Cs Character unit.IMPORTANT July 29, 2022 UPDATE!Please don't buy this version: It is an older TpT Google Drive™ Folder resource. I will be deactivating this resource in the future. (If you've already purchased it, don't worry. You will still have access to all of the Google Drive files.)Instead, please get the newer digital download products available in the bundle. It has everything PLUS the EASEL by TpT digital learning version.If you purchased
Grades:
5th - 10th
6Cs Character v2.6 (Folder 2 of 5) Distance Learning & Google Classroom ready
This was folder 2 (of 5) for the Educircles.org 6Cs Character unit. IMPORTANT July 29, 2022 UPDATE! Please don't buy this version: It is an older TpT Google Drive™ Folder resource. I will be deactivating this resource in the future. (If you've already purchased it, don't worry. You will still have access to all of the Google Drive files.) Instead, please get the newer digital download products available in the bundle. It has everything PLUS the EASEL by TpT digital learning version. If you pur
Grades:
6th - 10th
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