Activity |
Page |
Description |
Lesson Focus |
Core Curriculum Requirement |
Choosing to Avoid Faulty Thinking |
| Beware the Stink'n Think'n Gang - STG Handouts |
4 |
Readers Theater Activity: Student radio announcers report on a breaking news story, The Stink'n Think'n Gang is on the loose and causing havoc. Lesson introduces the notion that there are habits of thought that are dysfunctional and can be harmful if persisted in. |
Attitudes- How influenced by faulty thinking |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding; Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express themselves effectively |
| Believing Impossible Things |
7 |
Brief discussion between Alice and the Queen in "Through the Looking Glass." |
Attitudes- How influenced by choices we make |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding; Active Listening: Respond through discussion, writing, and art forms; |
| Making Diamonds from Garbage |
8 |
Demonstration of adage "Garbage in, Garbage Out" as applied to mental food and choices we make. |
Attitudes- How influenced by choices we make |
Reasoning and Problem Solving: Seeking and using information from reliable sources. |
| Poor Little Plant |
9 |
Water a small plant with a toxic substance such as alcohol, or turpentine. Demonstration of the need to be careful in what we feed ourselves mentally and physically |
Attitudes- How influenced by choices we make |
Health: Describe relationship between personal health behaviors and effect on mind and body |
| Onion Flavored Apple |
9 |
Demonstration of the influence of environment and other people on our choices and actions |
Attitudes- How influenced by choices we make |
Science: Systems: Analyze biological and chemical systems; Personal Development: Compare effect of friends, family, and environment on choices |
| Brain Food |
9 |
White/chalk board activity to discuss the influence of different kinds of information and mind influencing substances we choose to feed our minds. |
Attitudes- How influenced by choices we make |
Personal Development: Demonstrate refusal skills to enhance health; Science: demonstrate understanding of how different parts of body work together |
| The Problem With Stink'n Think'n |
10 |
Worksheet matching thoughts or ideas with likely consequences |
Choices- How influenced by our attitudes |
Reasoning and Problem Solving: Identify patterns and make connections. Reading: Analyze, interpret, and make connections between different parts of text and personal experiences in and out of school |
| The "I Want Bias" |
12 |
A demonstration involving a weighted cookie tin to illustrate the effect of bias on matter, forces and energy and to provide a perspective from which to discuss the effect of desire providing the motivation, (i.e.. energy and forces) that move us to make the choices we do. |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences |
Science: Apply forces to objects (e.g. inertia, gravity, friction, push and pull, and observe the objects in motion.) Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and decisions based on opinion |
| One-Foot Balance |
12 |
Demonstration of the effect of bias & how it can throw us off balance mentally just as a weight can throw us off balance physically. |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences |
Science: Apply forces to objects (e.g. inertia, gravity, friction, push and pull, and observe the objects in motion.) Personal Development: Evaluate consequences of decisions, Differentiate between decisions based on fact and decisions based on opinion |
| What Do Smokers Want? |
13 |
Demonstration of unpleasant health problems associated with smoking and discussion of the psychology of why people would voluntarily submit themselves to the potential of experiencing these problems. |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences |
Personal Development: Explain relationship between positive health behaviors and . . . tobacco; Making Decisions: Seek information and base decisions on evidence from reliable sources; Science: demonstrate understanding of how different parts of body work together |
| What Do Bullies Want? |
13 |
Word association exercise to explore the psychology of bullying. |
Bullying- Example of how cupidity influences our choices |
Personal Development: Demonstrate respect for themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of effects of prejudice |
| Self-Talk |
14 |
Exercise designed to help students become aware of the personal dialogue they are constantly engaged in and how it influences their choices and actions |
Self-Control- The control center |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively |
| The Strange Sad Tale of the "I-ME" |
15 |
A quizzical story of a creature who believed the only way he could be happy was by getting everything he wanted, even at the expense of others. |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences and the resulting consequences |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Identify factors that influence wants and needs |
| Snow White Optical Illusion |
16 |
An optical Illusion in which students can watch the wicked queen place the apple in Snow White's hand |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences and the resulting consequences |
Personal Development: Evaluate consequences of decisions; Identify factors that influence wants and needs |
| Snow White Wants It All |
17 |
Story of Snow White with discussion of why a beautiful woman would turn herself in to an ugly old hag and why Snow White failed to heed the warnings of her dwarf friends. |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences and the resulting consequences |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| The Goose that Laid Eggs of Gold |
20 |
A retelling of the Aesop fable in verse with a discussion of what influenced this foolish man to make such an unwise decision |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences and the resulting consequences |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| All in the Mind |
22 |
A story involving faces with different expressions and the comments different students made during show and tell. Students are to match the individual's comments with the appropriate facial expression. |
Attitudes- How influenced by faulty thinking |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively |
| The Dog Without a Bone |
23 |
The Aesop fable "The Dog and the Bone" retold in verse with a discussion of how and why the dog lost the bone. |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| When the Hare Woke Up |
24 |
The Aesop fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" retold in verse with a discussion of how and why the hare lost the race. |
Self-Control- Why the race is not always to the swift |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| The Price is Right |
25 |
An activity in which students estimate the price of various goods leading to a discussion of the exchange between labor, money, and goods and services and why we make these exchanges |
Choices- How influenced by our attitudes |
Personal Development: Making Decisions: Identify factors that influence wants and needs, Use economic reasoning |
| O Man of the Sea |
26 |
A retelling of Grimm's "The Old Man and the Sea" involving a discussion on wants, needs, and happiness; accompanied with a "Plague of My Life Worksheet" |
Choices- Example of how cupidity influences |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| Crazy Coote |
29 |
Story of an elderly lady chased from her home by some children and a discussion on the effects of gossip |
Bullying- How snobbery and gossip can lead to |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate respect for self and others; Making Decisions: Evaluate consequences of decisions; Civic: Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of prejudice, and its effects on various groups |
| Who Shall I Believe? |
30 |
Blindfold game leading to a discussion about making choices without adequate information |
Dishonesty- Requirement for care in making choices |
Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion |
| Magazine Advertisements |
31 |
An examination of various magazine advertisements to identify ways in which advertisers attempt to influence buyers |
Choices- How advertisers try to influence |
Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| Scrap Book |
31 |
Small group activity for students to collect and organize advertisements from newspapers and magazines into a scrap book with a look at advertising tactics |
Choices- How advertisers try to influence |
Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| Pinocchio's Field of Miracles |
32 |
Excerpt from "Pinocchio" by D. Collodi - a look at Pinocchio's decision making processes and his susceptibility to influence by those who meant to harm him |
Dishonesty- Why people lie and problems it creates both for the liar and victims |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| He's No Duck At All |
34 |
Hans Christian Anderson's story of "The Ugly Duckling" retold |
Bullying- How snobbery and false opinions can lead individuals to treat others unfairly |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Evaluate consequences of decisions; Civic: Examine effects of prejudice, Discuss meaning of citizenship |
| Old Wives Tales |
36 |
True/False test on "Old Wives Tales" |
Choices- Why opinions may not be a reliable basis for making |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| Fact or Fancy in Animal Lore |
37 |
True/False test on common beliefs concerning various creatures from the animal world |
Choices- Why opinions may not be a reliable basis for making |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Evaluate consequences of decisions; |
| The First Balloon Accent |
38 |
Benjamin Franklin's account of the first balloon accent he witnessed in France and the unfortunate, but humorous result |
Choices- Why opinions may not be a reliable basis for making |
Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Evaluate consequences of decisions; Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively |
Section Two - Choosing to Develop the Seven C Skills |
| Introducing the CT team |
42 |
An introduction to the "The Seven C's of Thinking Clearly" - seven thinking skills (cognitive tools) necessary to making sound decisions |
Attitudes- How the 7 C skills are important in forming |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Reasoning and Problem Solving: Use reasoning strategies to solve complex problems; Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively |
| Put on Your Thinking Cap |
42 |
Art project to make a thinking cap to be worn when working on developing the 7C skills |
Self-Control- How the 7 C skills enable us to govern ourselves |
Art: Use art forms to communicate; Reasoning and Problem Solving: Use reasoning strategies to solve complex problems |
| The CT Team at Work |
43 |
Situations requiring decisions and an exploration of how each of the seven c skills can help in making these decisions |
Self-Control- How the 7 C skills enable us to govern ourselves |
Reasoning and Problem Solving: Use reasoning strategies to solve complex problems |
| Five Things I Can Do |
47 |
Chalk Talk of five specific things a person can do to develop the skill of critical thinking |
Attitudes- Ways to develop critical thinking skills |
Reasoning and Problem Solving: Use reasoning strategies to solve complex problems |
| Think Along With Zachary Black |
48 |
Zach ponders things he doesn't understand, story told in verse. Student worksheet in which students identify which C skills Zach is using at any given point in his thought process |
Attitudes - Example of using 7C skills |
Reading; Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Reasoning and Problem Solving: Use reasoning strategies to solve complex problems |
| Look Higher, Further, Deep |
50 |
Outdoor activity of observation |
Attitudes - Example of using 7C skills |
Science: Inquiry: Use scientific method to observe, investigate, describe, and explain phenomena; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion |
| Look/See, Touch/Feel, Listen/Hear |
50 |
Series of observation activities using various senses |
Attitudes - Example of using 7C skills |
Science: Inquiry: Use scientific method to observe, investigate, describe, and explain phenomena; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion |
| Pro & Con - Prob Solving |
51 |
Discussion activity using the pro/con method of analysis in making decisions. This particular discussion involves a child being harassed by others |
Bullying- Exercise in using 7C skills in solving a particular problem |
Personal Development: Demonstrate respect for themselves and others; Interact respectfully with others, including those with whom they have differences; Making Decisions: Evaluate consequences of decisions; |
| Take a Test Run |
51 |
Assignment for students to talk to a respected adult regarding a decision they need to make |
Choices- Exercise in using 7C skills to make difficult choices |
Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion Making Decisions: Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| No Uninteresting Things |
52 |
Story of a scrubber woman who became a respected lecturer on the ant world as the result of a simple question. The message of the story is, "there are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people." |
Self-Understanding- Why discovering one's talents and interests is important to success |
Science: Inquiry: Use scientific method to observe, investigate, describe, and explain phenomena; Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; |
| Two Kinds of Interest |
53 |
Series of activities in which students explore the motivations for learning that arise from natural interest and a need to know |
Self-Understanding- Why discovering one's talents and interests is important to success |
Personal Development: Perform/demonstrate talent; Communication: Exchange information orally and in writing; Ask clarifying questions; |
| Who Am I? (Madam Curie) |
55 |
Short biographical sketch of Madam Curie and her discovery of radium and polonium and the incredible circumstances under which she and Pierre worked. |
Self-Reliance- Example of Initiative Industriousness Persistence Patience Resourcefulness |
Science: Inquiry: Use scientific method to observe, investigate, describe, and explain phenomena; Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; |
| Who Am I? (Michael Angelo) |
56 |
Short biographical sketch of Michael Angelo and the circumstances and conditions under which he worked in painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel |
Self-Reliance- Example of Initiative Industriousness Persistence Patience Resourcefulness |
Arts: Demonstrate knowledge of exemplary works; Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; |
| Edison's Six Questions |
57 |
Biographical sketch illustrating how Thomas Edison employed the who, what, where, why, how and when questions in becoming a highly successful inventor. |
Self-Reliance- Example of Initiative Industriousness Persistence Patience Resourcefulness |
Reasoning and Problem Solving: Seek information from reliable sources; Science: Inquiry: Use scientific method to observe, investigate, describe, and explain phenomena; Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; |
| Abu & The Wright Bros |
58 |
Comparison of the approach used by the Wright brothers vs. that of Abu alDjawhari that illustrates why the Wright brothers were more successful in inventing a flying machine than those who went before them. |
Self-Reliance- Example of Initiative Industriousness Persistence Patience Resourcefulness |
Reasoning and Problem Solving: Seek information from reliable sources; Science: Inquiry: Use scientific method to observe, investigate, describe, and explain phenomena; Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; |
| The Golden Calf |
60 |
Inspector Numer Uno solves the mystery of a Golden Calf statue stolen from a museum by employing the skills of observation and deduction |
Dishonesty- Motives for and consequences of |
Science: Understand properties and composition of matter and forces of motion; Use scientific method to observe, investigate, describe, and explain phenomena; Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; |
| Raise the Child as Muslim |
62 |
Biographical sketch from the life of Mahatma Gandhi in which a distraught man confesses to killing a Muslim child and Ghandi's counsel to help the man find peace |
Prejudice- Destructive influences of and example of dignity and courage in facing |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; History: Discuss the nature of conflict; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice, and of its effects on various groups |
| Sequoyah Creates an Alphabet |
63 |
Biographical sketch of how Sequoyah created an alphabet for the Cherokee language and the opposition he experienced from members of his own tribe. |
Self-Reliance- Example of Initiative Industriousness Persistence Patience Resourcefulness |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice, and of its effects on various groups; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical, social, and emotional health |
| Louis Braille's Achievement |
64 |
Biographical sketch of how Louis Braille became blind and eventually developed the Braille system of writing for people who have difficulty seeing |
Self-Reliance- Example of Initiative Industriousness Persistence Patience Resourcefulness |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical, social, and emotional health |
| Is That What I Said? |
65 |
Game in which students whisper a message from one person to another and then comparing what the first person said with what the last person heard. |
Attitudes- Need for care in forming |
Reasoning and Problem Solving: Seek information from reliable sources; Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Expression: Use verbal skills to express self effectively |
| Lincoln Tries To Understand |
66 |
Autobiographical sketch in which Abraham Lincoln recounts his efforts as a youth to understand ideas he heard adults discussing |
Attitudes- How influenced by choices |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express themselves effectively; Personal Development: Assess how they learn best and use additional learning strategies |
| Benjamin Loves to Read |
66 |
Autobiographical sketch in which Benjamin Franklin recounts his interest in reading as a youth and its influence upon his life |
Attitudes- How influenced by choices |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Assess how they learn best and use additional learning strategies |
| Daddy My Nose Itches |
67 |
Biographical sketch of Ben Carson, a young African American boy who went from a failing elementary student to a world renown brain surgeon and the influences that brought about this change in his life |
Choices- How influenced by our attitudes |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Assess how they learn best and use additional learning strategies |
| Who's in Control |
68 |
A series of activities designed to demonstrate one's inability to delegate personal responsibility for his or her choices and actions |
Self-Control- The control center |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Assess how they learn best and use additional learning strategies |
| About as Smart as a Carrying Jackass Upside Down |
69 |
The Aesop fable "A Man, His Son and Their Donkey" retold in verse with a discussion of what influenced this foolish man and his son to make such unwise choices |
Choices- How influenced by our attitudes |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| Robinson Crusoe Expostulates T'Other Way |
71 |
An excerpt from Daniel DeFoe's "Robinson Crusoe" in which Crusoe makes the transition from despondency to optimism upon finding himself the lone survivor of a ship wreck |
Attitudes- How influenced by thinking skills |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
| Paper Bag Puppet |
73 |
Art activity in which students prepare puppets of various animals made from paper bags and recite a little verse for each illustrating the influence of attitudes on one's perspective |
Choices- How influenced by our attitudes |
Arts: Use art forms to communicate; Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Identify indicators of intellectual, social, and emotional health |
| The Farmer and His Dame |
75 |
An English Fairy Tale, retold in verse, in which the Farmer finds his work is best after all |
Attitudes- How our experiences influence |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Identify factors that influence wants and needs; Evaluate consequences of decisions |
Section Three - Choosing to Be Responsible |
| Cultural Quilt |
80 |
An art activity in which pictures from different cultures are pieced together to create a pattern in the form of a quilt to get a picture of how different people in different places live |
Attitudes- How our environment influences |
Art: Convey artistic intent from artist to viewer; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of cultural expression characteristic to particular groups; Demonstrate understanding of place and community heritage |
| Frog Pantomimes |
81 |
A pantomime activity in which students act out various behaviors relating to frogs that reflect differing attitudes people might have toward frogs |
Attitudes- A look at how different people feel differently about the same thing |
Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical and mental health; Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed healthy choices |
| The Spoiled Princess |
82 |
The story of a princess who was spoiled rotten and who made important changes in her outlook on life when she went to live with some country peasants |
Bullying- How snobbery and cupidity can lead to and one antidote for |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical and mental health; Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed healthy choices |
| Mac & Zach from Hackensack |
84 |
The story of twin boys, told in verse, who live in the same home and go to the same school but have different views of life |
Attitudes- Why attitude is more important that aptitude for achieving success |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical and mental health; Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed healthy choices |
| Lesson of the Secret Garden |
86 |
Excerpt from "The Secret Garden" by Francis Hodgson Burnett in which Mistress Mary and Colin come to learn the power and influence of thoughts, whether for good or ill |
Attitudes- Why attitude is more important that aptitude for achieving success |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical and mental health; Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed healthy choices |
| What Does it Mean |
87 |
Small group discussion of the meaning of selected quotes from Socrates, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Self-Control- Several attitudes helpful in acquiring |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively; |
| Michael's Speech |
88 |
Biographical sketch of Michael Dowling giving a motivational talk to world war I veterans who had lost body parts in battle. Dowling was a highly successful businessman and educator who had lost both legs, one arm, and much of his other hand when a young boy. |
Self-Control- How the 7C skills can help in acquiring |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical and mental health; make informed healthy choices; Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| Daddy Dear |
89 |
Story, told in verse, of girl who wanted a puppy but did not want to take care of it after she got it |
Choices- Influence of attitudes in making |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| ABC Sequence |
90 |
Visual demonstration of the relationship between attitudes, behaviors, and consequences |
Attitudes- How attitudes influence our choices and the effects thereof |
Science: Apply forces to objects and observe objects in motion; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical and mental health; make informed healthy choices |
| Teresa's Tricycle |
91 |
Whimsical story of a girl who leaves her tricycle in the street and, with her mother, enjoys watching cars jump over it as they drive by leading to a discussion of what's wrong with this picture |
Choices- Facing the consequences of poor judgment |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Science: Demonstrate understanding of matter, motion, and forces of energy; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| Grimey Griswald |
91 |
Whimsical story of a man who robs the bank on a regular basis and retains a friendly relationship with bank employees, the police and members of the community leading to a discussion of what's wrong with this picture |
Choices- Facing the consequences of poor judgment |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; History: Examine meaning of citizenship; |
| Two Little Pigs |
95 |
Take off on story of the "Three Little Pigs" to explore the need for care in making choices |
Choices- Facing the consequences |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| Who Am I? Jesse James & Alexander Graham Bell |
96 |
A fascinating comparison of the different lives of these two contemporaries and the consequences of their differing choices |
Choices- Facing the consequences |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; Civic: Examine meaning of citizenship; |
| Long Observed One Rule |
98 |
Three incidents from the life of Benjamin Franklin reflecting his philosophy of life |
Dishonesty- The advantages of a clear conscience |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
Section Four - Choosing to Respect Myself |
| Language of Self-Respect |
102 |
Two lessons examining how self-understanding, self-denial, self-reliance and selflessness can help a person acquire self-respect |
Self-Control- How to take ownership for how you feel about yourself |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively; |
| The Little Apple Seed |
103 |
Poem and activity exploring the meaning of the phrase, "You can count the number of seeds in an apple, but can you count the number of apples in a seed?" as applied to individuals |
Self-Understanding- Why discovering one's talents and interests is important to success |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| Discovering My Talents and Interests |
106 |
Series of lessons in which students mutually explore their differing talents, interests, strengths and weaknesses through a variety of activities and discuss the collective and individual possibilities these differences provide |
Self-Understanding- Why discovering one's talents and interests is important to success |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal and non-verbal skills to express self effectively |
| Beatrix Understands |
112 |
Biographical sketch of Beatrix Potter's experiences as a neglected child and how she came to realize she had the potential to accomplish important things in her life |
Self-Understanding- Why discovering one's talents and interests is important to success |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| Louisa's Plummy Cake |
113 |
Biographical sketch from the life of Louisa Alcott in which she first learned the sweetness of self-denial |
Self-Denial- A lesson in the benefits of sharing |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| Mac & Zach and the Rusty Horseshoe |
114 |
Another Mac and Zach story told in verse in which Zach ponders what is really important in life as he watches his brother fight with another boy over who was better than who |
Self-Understanding- Why seeking acendency over others is a self-defeating behavior |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| The School Mary Built |
116 |
A biographical sketch from the life of Mary Bethune, a woman of African American descent who built a school for the children in her town who were not allowed to attend the regular schools |
Self-Reliance- Example of Initiative Industriousness Persistence Patience Resourcefulness |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; History and Social Sciences: Analyze factors and implications of historical movements; Identify and evaluate concept of human rights; Examine the meaning of citizenship; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and its effects on various groups; |
| The Doctor of Lamborene |
118 |
A biographical sketch from the life of Albert Schweitzer in which he and his wife transformed a chicken coop into a hospital |
Self-Understanding- How serving others creates feelings of worth |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; History and Social Sciences: Analyze access individuals have to institutions; Understand concepts of culture |
| Jane's Declaration |
119 |
A biographical sketch from the life of Jane Addams in which she made a choice as a child that determined the course of her life as an adult |
Self-Understanding- How serving others creates feelings of worth |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; History/Social Science: Examine meaning of citizenship; |
| What Should Rueben Do? |
120 |
Four couplets in which Rueben needs to make choices as to what he should do involving incidents likely to happen to any young person |
Self-Understanding How one's choices influence one's feelings of self-worth |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
Section Five - Choosing to Respect Others |
| Language of Respect |
124 |
Chalk Talk and worksheet activities exploring the meaning of words associated with respect |
Attitudes; Influence of language in forming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| Crayons, Colors, People |
126 |
Coloring activity in which students explore how individual differences add beauty, variety, and interest to life |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Art: Use elements and principles of color; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Students use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and wellbeing of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| What If? |
126 |
Students utilize several mediums - stories, plays, papers, pictures to explore answers to several "What If?" questions concerning how people are different and how these differences are mutually beneficial |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Communication: Establish connections between text and dialogue in several different communication mediums; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| The Pencil & Paper |
127 |
A dialogue (in verse) between a pencil and a piece of paper in which they decide their differences are so great they have no use for each other |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups |
| Mother Nature Changes Her Mind |
127 |
Group activity in which students, after listening to a short story in which mother nature complains that she needs to simplify her life, have to decide which creatures they think mother nature should keep and those she should get rid of, or whether they should try to persuade her to change her mind |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups |
| Four Things All People Need |
130 |
Puzzle solving activity in which students identify four ways in which all people are equal |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Examine meaning of citizenship |
| Likeness Pantomime |
131 |
Pantomime game in which students act out different ways in which all people are equal |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| Likeness Art Project |
131 |
Group art and discussion activity in which students explore ways in which all people are equal |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudices |
Art: Convey artistic intent from creator to viewer; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and wellbeing of themselves and others; Civic; Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| Likeness Montage |
131 |
Small group activity for students to collect pictures of people in different cultures and places who are involved in activities necessary to meet common needs and organize the pictures into a large wall montage |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudice |
Art: Convey artistic intent from creator to viewer; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and wellbeing of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups, Explore meaning of citizenship |
| Blindfolded Games |
132 |
Different games to be played blindfolded followed by a discussion of the experience |
Prejudice- How understanding the challenges some people face can help a person overcome prejudice |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice; Explore meaning of citizenship |
| One Handed Activity |
132 |
Several activities which students are required to perform with one hand behind their back |
Prejudice- How understanding the challenges some people face can help a person overcome prejudice |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice; Explore meaning of citizenship |
| Individual Differences - Mutual Needs |
133 |
Brainstorming activity in which students explore differences between people, their common needs in relation to those differences, and how these differences help them meet their common needs |
Prejudice- How understanding individual differences and common needs can help a person overcome prejudice |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Personal Development: make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
| The Dried Peas in Cinderella's Life |
134 |
A retelling of this fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
| Mac & Zach Bird in Air |
136 |
Another Mac and Zach story in which Zach nurses back to health a bird that had been shot by his brother Mac with a BB-gun |
Choices- Influence of attitudes in making |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| A Change of Heart |
138 |
A biographical sketch from the life of Mother Teresa in which she and her fellow sisters are threatened by a gang of students who misunderstand what the Nuns are doing in their hospital |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals History and Social Sciences: Recognize forces of unity and disunity; Examine meaning of citizenship; Civic; Demonstrate understanding of prejudice |
| Dick Wittington & Cat |
140 |
Retold from English fairy tale the story is about an orphan boy taken in by a kind man but abused by his house maid |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
| Which is Best? |
141 |
Several dilemmas in which students discuss which course of action is best |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express themselves effectively; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| The Orphanage of Madam Ngai |
142 |
Story of a widow who started an orphanage to care for abandoned and orphaned children resulting from a civil war in Vietnam, how the orphanage grew to over 1000 children in spite of incredible adversity |
Prejudice- Destructive nature of and courage and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals History and Social Sciences: Recognize forces of unity and disunity; Examine meaning of citizenship; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
Section Six - Choosing to Be Trustworthy |
| Four Short Puppet Plays |
146 |
Art activity in which students make simple puppets and use them as characters in different short plays dealing with honesty |
Dishonesty- Motivations for, consequences of |
Art: Convey artistic intent from creator to viewer; Solve visual, spatial, kinesthetic, and other problems in art; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Students use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and wellbeing of themselves and others |
| What Did Kadabe Do |
148 |
Four couplets in which Kadabe fails to keep his word when tempted by diversions |
Dishonesty- Motivations for, consequences of |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others |
| Trustworthiness Activities |
149 |
Several language activities which students explore the concept of trustworthiness involving a variety of different experiences |
Dishonesty- Motivations for, consequences of Honesty- Benefits of |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills (orally and in writing) to express self effectively; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others |
| Oliver Learns a Trade |
152 |
Excerpt adapted from Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist" in which Oliver is introduced to Fagin and taught the art of picking pockets |
Dishonesty- Motivations for, consequences of |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; Civic: Explore meaning of citizenship; |
| The Mahatma |
154 |
Four incidents from the life of Mahatma Gandhi which illustrate the importance of being trustworthy |
Dishonesty- Motivations for, consequences of Honesty- Benefits of |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; History and Social Sciences: Recognize forces of unity and disunity; Examine meaning of citizenship; Civic; Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
| Every Day Dilemmas |
156 |
Four dilemmas in which the honesty of different individuals is tested |
Dishonesty- Motivations for, consequences of Honesty- Benefits of |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Civic: Examine meaning of citizenship |
| Lenny |
159 |
A biographical sketch of Lenny Bias, the college basket ball star who died of a drug overdose while celebrating his signing with the Boston Celtics |
Choices- The devastating effect of cupidity on one person's life |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others |
