Elementary School Character Education Lesson

Empower your middle school classroom with our comprehensive "Empathy Lesson Plan," expertly crafted for teachers focusing on Social Emotional Learning (SEL), character education, and behavior improvement. This versatile resource is designed to resonate with students across all subjects, including Special Education and intervention programs. This is the perfect lesson set for the new school year of 2024!

What's Inside?

• Engaging Empathy Video & Discussion Prompt: Start your class with an inspiring video about empathy, followed by thought-provoking questions to engage students right away.
• Differentiated Reading Texts: Includes leveled texts on empathy featuring Fred Rogers, Malala Yousafzai, and Doctors Without Borders, perfect for 4th, 6th, and 8th-grade reading levels. Each story exemplifies empathy in a relatable and inspiring way, tailored for diverse learning needs.
• Reflection Writing Prompt: Encourage deep thinking with a text-to-self connection writing prompt, helping students relate the lessons of empathy to their own lives.
• 'Walk in My Shoes' Coloring Activity: A creative exercise where students share aspects of their lives and perspectives, promoting empathy and understanding among classmates.
• Empathy Interviews: Foster meaningful conversations with guided empathy interviews, allowing students to explore and understand each other's experiences and emotions.

Key Features:

• Behavior and Character Development Focus: This resource is specially designed to address classroom behaviors by nurturing positive character traits through empathy.
• Adaptable Across All Subjects: Ideal for middle school teachers of various subjects, looking to integrate character education into their curriculum.
• Ready-to-Use: No prep needed, available in easy-to-use formats, perfect for busy educators. Choose between a print-and-go PDF or an editable Google Slides version.

Perfect for creating a more empathetic, understanding, and supportive classroom environment, this lesson plan is an essential tool for enhancing student behavior and emotional intelligence. Whether you're resetting for a new school year, dealing with challenging behaviors, or aiming to strengthen your students' character, this empathy-focused resource is tailored to make your teaching experience more impactful and rewarding.

Check out the other resources in this series:

• Character Education Middle School: Teamwork SEL digital lesson, video, writing (TeachShare.com)
• Character Education Middle School: Resilience SEL digital lesson, video, writing (TeachShare.com)

Be Kind, Be Safe, and Do Your Job are the only school rules you need! I have taught for 33 years, in three different districts. I have seen many school-wide rules instituted, but these are the only ones that stuck! Our district has used these for years! These rules are simple and easy to remember. All other rules can fit under these main rules. This resource includes a poster for each of the three rules and suggested books to read to your class for each rule to help facilitate discussion. A student booklet for each student to complete, take home, and share with their families is also included.

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Introduce Pre-K through fifth graders to the concepts of compare and contrast with easy to follow, fun, interactive sheets. Students use small group activities to reinforce compare and contrast skills, Introduces diversity and uniquenesses students can celebrate in the classroom! Includes: Directions Topic Sheet Planning Sheet Fill-in-the-Blanks (Circles & Venn) Rough Draft Lined Writing Sheet Final Essay Lined Writing Sheet Dogs and Cats Example & Activity Sheet (Circles & Venn) Flowers and Trees Example & Activity Sheet (Circles & Venn) Airplanes and Ships Example & Activity Sheet (Circles & Venn) Themed Images for Displaying Paragraphs

Get your students thinking about kindness with this quick presentation. Students will get to use their detective skills to decide whether a situation is showing kindness or not. Students will then get to reflect on the importance of kindness and how they can show kindness at home and school. Can be used for 1:1 or group sessions.

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10 situational scenarios

3 reflective questions

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Do you struggle with students constantly tattling in your room? Students can reference the anchor chart poster and will sort tattling vs. reporting using cut-and-paste activities, pocket charts, and worksheets Students need to learn that it is important to only let the teacher or an adult know something if it is dangerous, destructive, or harmful. We do not tell on others to try to get them in trouble. It is best to try and work out minor issues on your own without adult help whenever possible. This product gives plenty of scenarios that happen often in classrooms. It provides for some great classroom discussions. You may want to do the pocket chart activity with some of the scenarios whole group and have students work on other scenarios independently as they use the cut-and-paste worksheets. Tattling vs. Reporting~Students will sort tattling vs. reporting statements either on a pocket chart activity or on cut-and-paste worksheets. You can easily differentiate instruction as the cut-and-paste worksheets are different.

You will receive:

-five worksheets with 8 different scenarios on each in complete sentences without pictures to sort scenarios.

-two worksheets with phrases and 8 pictures to go along with it.

- a pocket chart activity with headers and 18 different sentence scenarios to sort.

-two different recording sheets to be used with pocket chart activity on primary and secondary lined paper for differentiation.

-You will also receive a poster to hang in your classroom and a cut and paste activity to match the poster.

Students need to learn that it is important to only let the teacher or an adult know something if it is dangerous, destructive, or harmful. We do not tell on others to try to get them in trouble. It is best to try and work out minor issues on your own without adult help whenever possible. This product gives plenty of scenarios that happen often in classrooms. It provides for some great classroom discussion. You may want to do the pocket chart activity with some of the scenarios whole group and have students work on other scenarios independently as they use the cut-and-paste worksheets.

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Introducing "The Bystander's Dilemma" - a compelling story and comprehensive teaching resource for grades 5-8 that addresses the critical issue of bullying and the power of being an upstander.

This thought-provoking story follows Lucas, a middle school student who witnesses the bullying of his classmate, Emma. As Lucas grapples with the decision to intervene or remain silent, students will explore themes of courage, compassion, and the importance of standing up for others.

"The Bystander's Dilemma" is more than just a story; it's a complete teaching package designed to engage your students and foster meaningful discussions about bullying prevention and character development.

This resource includes:

• The full story, divided into chapters for easy classroom reading and discussion
• Detailed character profiles and a story arc to help students analyze literary elements
• Thoughtful discussion questions to promote critical thinking and personal reflection
• Engaging writing prompts to encourage creative expression and empathy-building
• Vocabulary list with definitions to support language development
• Comprehensive lesson ideas & activities, including character analysis, anti-bullying campaign poster design, role-playing, and more

As an educator, you understand the importance of addressing bullying and promoting a positive school climate. "The Bystander's Dilemma" provides a relevant and relatable context for students to explore these issues, while also strengthening their literacy skills and social-emotional learning.

This workbook includes 10 Comprehension and Reflection Worksheets to help further your students understanding of Stranger Danger. Each page includes a mini-informative narrative about a stranger danger situation. On each page there are three comprehension and reflective questions to help support the student to reflect on the stranger danger situation, explore decision making, consequences and gain insight into the situation.

Each page explores a different scenario where stranger danger themes are explored. The themes include:

1.Don’t allow strangers in

2.Don’t share information

3.Tell a trusted adult

4.Using a code word

5.Adults don’t need help from a child

6.Don’t take food from strangers

7.Don’t get in the car

8.Staying safe online

9.Never go anywhere with strangers

10.Listen to your instincts

Each page can be used as a stand-alone worksheet or as a companion and supplement to your lesson.

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Introducing the AVID Mini Socratic Seminar resource, "Roadblocks to Good Grades." This digital product is designed to help students identify and overcome common obstacles to academic success. Whether it's struggling with time management, feeling disengaged in class, lacking academic support, or feeling unfamiliar with content and skills, this Mini Socratic Seminar has something for everyone.

Using this resource, students will be able to choose a table where one of the resource category posters is displayed that they relate to the most. Once seated, they will engage in a meaningful dialogue with their peers using a team leader to facilitate the conversation. The discussions will be based on a set of questions provided in a Google Slides presentation.

Through this interactive seminar, students will be able to share their experiences, gain new insights, and discover practical strategies for overcoming the roadblocks that stand in the way of their academic success.

What's Included:

• definition slide
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• Mini Seminar directions slide
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• slide for management tips
• set-up slide
• Essential question slide
• 10 Socratic Seminar guiding questions for roadblocks to good grades
• 4 Socratic Seminar Group signs
• Editable templates

Category Group Signs Included:

1. Procrastination, Organization, Study Habits, or Time Management – This area is for students who might have difficulties sitting down to study or even knowing what to study.

2. Disengaged in Delivery – This area is for students who might really dislike a class or find it uninteresting

3. Lack of Academic Support – This area is for students who might not have support structures at home to provide additional support in preparing for tests or finishing homework

4. Not Familiar with Content/Lacking Skills – This area is for students who might be in a course that requires them to write, read, or do computations that go beyond their skillset.)

Definition:
A Mini Socratic Seminar is a scholarly discussion of an essential question in which student opinions are shared and refined through dialogue with other students in small groups. In this mini format, the teacher or seminar leader facilitates the discussion for the small groups.

Seminar Directions:

• Students choose a group based on the category that best fits them.
• The teacher poses the essential question.
• Students respond to the question through note-taking.
• The teacher chooses a Socratic Seminar leader for each group.
• The leader facilitates the seminar discussion by guiding group members to a deeper and more clarified consideration of the ideas, respect for varying points of view, and adherence to and respect for the seminar process.
• Students may pose new questions when the discussion is exhausted. New questions posed must relate to students’ ideas and contributions in response to the initial essential question.
• Or leaders use the questions in the Google Slides to guide groups.
• Students write a summary by answering the EQ in their notes after the discussion.

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This Preschool/Pre-K product is a Bible Lesson focused on a positive character trait. The pages are simple and teach an important character trait in a way that is engaging and easy for the child to learn. There are enough pages to teach over a month of Sundays or pick and choose for one Sunday. This is a work of love in progress. Each lesson will start with an alphabet letter so eventually, there will be a bundle of 26 Bible Lessons with A-Z.

Pages are in color and B/W.

What you get:

• 3 “Lesson D - - DIVERSITY” sheets (color, B/W, and real-life image)
• Fact sheet on the dog that applies to the character trait
• Jesus Moment – What can we learn about Jesus?
• Memory verse worksheets and poster
• Worksheets that teach the trait
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I designed this 5-page activity for my students to engage with during the Fall or at the start of the year, focusing on the Social Studies Citizenship unit. Students will read various scenarios and determine whether each one exemplifies good citizenship. This activity is perfect for reinforcing rules and character traits at the beginning of the year. I intend to use it as an independent task after a few days of instruction on citizenship. It can also serve as a graded assessment, quiz, or a follow-up activity after a mini-lesson on rules or citizenship. Be sure to check out my Good Citizen or Not sorting center, along with other citizenship and respect resources!

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The FREE Printable Catholic Kids Bulletin worksheets match up to the weekly Mass readings in the Catholic Church. There are coloring pages that match the weekly Gospel reading. There are activities throughout the month, along with Psalm copywork and a wordsearch. The liturgy of the Mass is outlined along the top of each bulletin so kids can follow along during Mass and learn the order and structure of the Mass. Each week, a Catholic Saint is also highlighted. These are terrific to be used at Mass, or as a pre-teaching activity to help prepare your students for the Sunday Mass.

June Bulletins include...

• Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
• Saint Juliana Falconieri
• Saint Anthony
• Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
• Eucharist
• Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
• Saint Charles Lwanga

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I designed this 5-page activity for my students to engage with during the Fall or at the start of the year, focusing on the Social Studies Citizenship unit. Students will read various scenarios and determine whether each one exemplifies good citizenship. This activity is perfect for reinforcing rules and character traits at the beginning of the year. I intend to use it as an independent task after a few days of instruction on citizenship. It can also serve as a graded assessment, quiz, or a follow-up activity after a mini-lesson on rules or citizenship. Be sure to check out my Good Citizen or Not sorting center, along with other citizenship and respect resources!

This product (Train Your Dragon to Follow Rules- Cause and Effect) is a sample of my book companion for the book Train Your Dragon to Follow Rules by Steve Herman. It allows students to reflect on their own behavior in the classroom around the topic of personal attitude. 

Unlock the Full Potential: Train Your Dragon to Follow Rules (by Steve Herman) Social-Emotional Activities

The full book companion, Train Your Dragon to Follow Rules (by Steve Herman) Social-Emotional Activities, can be found in my TeachShare store. It is full of SEL and ELA activities for helping children learn about why we have rules and the importance of following them, while also building specific ELA skills.

What Awaits You in the Full Book Companion:

• An explanation of the CASEL 5 Standards (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making).
• Support for adults and suggestions on how to teach and support children in learning about why we have rules, why the same rules apply to everyone, and the impact of our choices.
• Specific SEL learning objectives that are covered in this book companion.
• Guided questions for before, during, and after reading the text.
• A variety of book companion activities that address both ELA and SEL skills.
• ELA skill sheets/posters
• Note to families explaining the skill we are working on in class and letting them know how they can help at home.
• Brag Tags for celebrating improvement and success

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If you are looking for conflict resolution activities for preschoolers, look no further! This resource is filled with conflict resolution ideas for preschoolers and is all you need to provide a fun and interactive lesson to your group of young learners!

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What's included in this Conflict Resolution Activities resource?

1. A Detailed Lesson Plan - introduces conflict resolution ideas to the group AND provides interactive activities to reinforce conflict resolution techniques.

2. A Conflict Resolution Techniques Sorting Activity:

This sorting activity will get children thinking and discussing helpful and unhelpful ways to solve a conflict.

3**. Conflict Resolution Scenarios for Role Playing**

Role play common problems in preschool and how we can solve those common scenarios. This will allow the group to use the Helpful Problem Solving Techniques introduced in the lesson.

4. A Problem Solving Wheel

An illustrated problem solving wheel with key problem solving techniques that your students that color in and take home.

5. 'To Solve a Problem I Can ..." Classroom Poster (8.5 x 11 inches)

A quick and easy to refer to visual reminder for your classroom.

6. Printable worksheets

Consolidate your student's learning with these worksheets.

7. Letter to families (2 versions - Editable version & ready to email PDF version)

Get families on board with a letter explaining the strategies introduced in class & how they can get involved.

8. Comes in full color and black & white version.

Looking to add to your Unit on Conflict Resolution? Check these resources out:

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Teach your students how to take a stand against bullying with this "How To Be a Buddy, Not a Bully" anti-bullying activities set! This download includes anti-bullying worksheets, activities, and mini books specially designed to show students how to be a buddy, not a bully.

Students will love learning the steps to being a buddy and how to recognize bully-like behaviors. Exposing young students to anti-bullying activities is a proactive approach to minimizing bully-like behaviors before they are able to begin.  Give your students the ability to be a buddy with these anti-bullying activities and worksheets.

Included in Download:

• "How to be a Buddy, Not a Bully” 10 page Mini Book and/or Poster Set
• Color and Fill-in-the-Blank Mini Workbook
• Worksheet

Quickly assemble all items by printing, laminating, and stapling all pages together. Read and discuss each page of the antibullying mini-book, then pass out the anti-bullying worksheets to all students. As a bonus, the black and white design of these bullying worksheets allow them to double as coloring sheets!

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"I Can Have Empathy" is a 12 Page, easy-read social skills narrative designed to help children understand the importance of others and their social interactions. This engaging and interactive story promotes social-emotional learning and enhances children's understanding of empathy.

This book comes in full color with a black-and-white version as well.

Classroom Community Posters: Kindness in the Classroom

These affirmations for the classroom community will help you create an inclusive, respectful, kind, and collaborative environment.

This file includes 16 distinct affirmations. In addition, you will find a teacher tips page. Each affirmation begins with "In this classroom... we....". The pronoun "we" is purposeful, as it implies cooperation and collaboration.

These posters are not grade specific.

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The "Challenge Your Mindset" lesson plan is designed for 3rd to 6th-grade students to help them understand the difference between a fixed and growth mindset and develop a growth mindset. The lesson includes two sets of task cards that challenge the students' fixed mindset thinking and prompts them to shift to a growth mindset thinking. The activity is designed to be conducted in pairs or small groups, allowing for collaborative learning and discussion.

Resource includes:

• PDF with a Set of 20 Task Cards (10 scenario cards and 10 prompts cards)
• Color and option of Black/White cards
• 40 minutes Step-by-Step Lesson Plan

If you like this resource, you may also be interested in:

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Positive Affirmations Bookmarks | Growth Mindset Bookmarks To Color

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If you're looking for a lesson about the "Holidays Around the World," this resource is perfect for reading comprehension stories your class will enjoy. It includes topics for interesting class discussions, and also some fun activities! Find out more about the celebrations of Kwanzaa, Diwali, Hanukkah, and Epiphany. You will also learn how to play the Dreidel game, and how to make some delicious holiday desserts!

Included in this resource are:

*A list of suggested ways to use this lesson in the classroom

*A page that explains the importance of learning how people all over the world celebrate the holidays.

* Understanding Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles

* Interesting Stories, Comprehension Questions, and Answer Keys for:

"The Magical Reindeer of Santa Claus"

"Befana: Italy's Epiphany Witch"

"Three Kings Day in France" (including a recipe for how to make

"Galette des Rois" a pastry with a surprise inside!)

"The Miracle of Hanukkah" (including how to play the Dreidel Game

and a recipe for "Sufganiyot" Jelly Doughnuts!)

"The Festival of Diwali in India"

This lesson is ideal for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders and can be used as:

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• Whole Class Discussions
• Individual seatwork
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Looking for resources on impulse control, making good choices, and stopping to think? This could be for you. Cute powerpoint with 12 social scenarios and four reflective questions to get them thinking about making good choices no matter the situation. Great for small groups, individual sessions, or whole classroom discussions.

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