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Character Education Resources
Everyday Heroes (grades 4-12)
This Heroes and Dreams Foundation guide helps students 1) Resolve real-world dilemmas, 2) explore the consequences of their decisions and actions, and 3) discover and nurture relationships with others. Visit their web site at: http://www.heroesanddreams.org

Goal Setting
Short activity to help students understand that setting goals is an important human skill that helps establish a destination for our lives, create a road map of where we want to go, and helps determine what we want and need to accomplish.

Help Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen
A U.S. Dept. of Education parent guide for grade K-12 age children on how to help them develop good character traits.

MegaSkills
These 11 lesson plans help build children's achievement for the information age by encouraging development of the MegaSkills of: Confidence, Motivation. Effort, Responsibility, Initiative, Perseverance, Caring, Teamwork, Common Sense, Problem Solving, and Focus. 

Moral Reasoning Lesson Plans Using the Newspaper
Famous child psychologists, Piaget and Kohlberg, discovered that the way we think about moral problems develops throughout our lives. As we get older our logic becomes less self-centered and more complex, taking into consideration many factors. Thinking about problems at "higher stages" means that you take long-term consequences seriously, wonder if the actions will impact your character or integrity, respond to your pangs of conscience or feel a duty to care for others coming from deep within.

Holocaust Timeline Lesson Plan
The Holocaust Timeline Lesson Plan is a review of the NAZI anti-Semitic pogroms and laws that went into effect between 1933 and 1945. The timeline marks the escalating levels of prejudice, discrimination, and terrifying violence targeting the many victims of the Holocaust. Lesson questions are provided. 

Portraits of Character from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
There are 6 portraits of character on: 

Project: Solution Character Education Supplements: Thirty-six 8-page supplements are provided, eighteen for each grade level of K-3 & 3-7. Topics include:

Level      

Grade K-3  Grades 3-7
Building Community PDF PDF
Caring PDF PDF
Courage PDF PDF
Doing Right  PDF PDF
Forgives   PDF PDF
Giving Service  PDF PDF
Gratitude  PDF PDF
Honesty PDF PDF
Loves Learning  PDF PDF
Models Democracy PDF PDF
Nurturing  PDF PDF
Persevering  PDF PDF
Respecting Others  PDF PDF
Respecting Self PDF PDF
Respecting Work  PDF PDF
Responsibility   PDF PDF
Solving Problems  PDF PDF
Taking Initiative    PDF PDF




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