Encourage students to take the “Kids Against Bullying” pledge. Options include pledging online, signing a bookmark with the pledge, or adding their name to a sign up sheet
Watch as the camera tracks an act of kindness as its passed from one individual to the next and manages to boomerang back to the person who set it into motion.
It's a perfect addition to the walls of any hallway, office, classroom or teacher lounge. You can start your morning announcements with a kindness idea from the calendar!
A fun way to inspire ideas for being kind to others.
A free kindness poster ideal for Random Acts of Kindness Day with a comprehensive list of ideas for acts of kindness students can participate in at school, home, and within the community.
FREE kindness coloring pages to help improve behavior. Nurture a growth mindset as kids color kindness quotes to build friendships and social skills.
This film documents English language learners as they write and tell personal stories from their past.
This is a lesson plan template created by the Utah Education Network. It is meant to guide educators through creating lesson plans that contain all the necessary components for teacher and student success. Remix this template each time you create a lesson to share in eMedia. When you edit each section of the lesson plan template, delete the template description and add your own content. Add files and links to each section as needed. Remember to replace the preview image with an openly licensed image or screen capture that represents your lesson. After completing each lesson plan section included in this template, you will click "next" at the top of your screen. This is when you will replace this overview with your own brief description of your lesson. You will also be asked to finalize your lesson details (metadata), including connecting it to state curriculum standards. Please do not skip these details. These choices are what align your lesson to state standards and help others search for resources in eMedia. Thank you for contributing to eMedia!
Watch the video together and talk about why Grover's style of playing upsets Abby. How do the friends solve the problem? Ask children: “Do you have any friends who like things quieter, or slower, or different in some other way?” Brainstorm ways to make that friend feel more comfortable.
This is a lesson plan template created as part of the Library Lockers project to guide teacher librarians through creating lesson plans that contain all the necessary components for teacher and student success. Remix this template each time you create a lesson to share in eMedia. When you edit each section of the lesson plan template, delete the template description and add your own content. Add files and links to each section as needed. After completing each lesson plan section included in this template, you will click "next" at the top of your screen. This is when you will replace this overview with your own brief description of your lesson. You will also be asked to finalize your lesson details (metadata), including connecting it to state curriculum standards. Please do not skip these details. These choices are what align your lesson to state standards and help others search for resources in eMedia. Please remember that any borrowed resources included in your lesson plan must be openly licensed.Thank you for contributing to eMedia!
Getting students to connect with literature or history can be challenging, but if you have immersive hands-on activities designed to content standards, students will beg to dig deeper. This "Library Locker" will foster deep critical thinking while offering fun standards based learning opportunity designed with unit outcomes in mind. Students love these and teachers do too, the ability to make learning with artifacts, literature, collaboration and writing all happen at once gives teachers a way to leverage this type of learning to its fullest extent.
This lesson will share the 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds with Orson Welles. Students will also see artifacts from the 1930's era and be able to compare and contrast with present styles.
When someone in the family has an advanced serious illness, all family members feel the impact. Choose a filter to access which type of resource you would like to view for everyone who is impacted
Kids often find comfort in doing the same things each day in the same way and having structure. Following simple routines can be especially calming. Choose one everyday routine for which kids need a little extra support.
This activity asks students to create a visual map of their socialization in some aspect of identity (such as race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) through the course of their life. Students will create a timeline of their lives, noting at what ages they learned particular lessons about their identity, by whom those lessons were taught, and how those lessons were taught.
We receive messages about gender from many different places. Popular media (such as films, YouTube and other
online media, books, magazines, television, etc.) is one of the most influential sources. What messages are being
sent? What do they tell us about how our society thinks about gender? How can we make sure they don't create
gender stereotypes?
This lesson is used to have culinary arts students demonstrate their ability to plate, photograph, and create a sales pitch for a glass of water.This assignment aligns with the Utah Secondary FCS Strands & Standards. Preview Image is used with permission "A glass of water" by gromgull is licensed under CC BY 2.0..
In this lesson, students will research using World Book Student Online to research how mathemathics concepts are used/created or have been used/created in history in other parts of the world. This lesson should take about one class period or 45 minutes. This could be used as either a virtual lesson for students or as a in class independent work project.
Not Everything Stays the Same" - "You may always hear that when your parent comes home everything will change. Your family life may have gone topsy turvy. This family was able to find some ways that the family stayed the same."