Put-ups & Put-downs (Warm Fuzzies & Cold Pricklies)
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-1
The following classroom guidance lesson was developed at Kennedy Elementary School by Candy Bell (Professional School Counselor) and Abigail J. Ostby (School Counseling Intern). This lesson was designed to help young children (Kindergarten and Grade 1) learn the difference between put-ups and put-downs as well as their effects on people's feelings.

@rt Room
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Like art rooms in schools everywhere, this virtual art room is meant to be a "special" place. Within its "walls," kids are offered opportunities to create, to discover, to imagine, to invent, to learn, and to make their thoughts become things. In short, the @rt room is a place for kids to explore their inner and outer worlds. The @rt room is designed around the idea of "activity" centers that encourage kids to create, to learn and to explore new ideas, places and things on their own.

10 Tips to Get the Most from Your College Experience
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ACADEMIC
Level: SECONDARY
Adaptable handout.

A Friendship Chain
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-5
To facilitate students' ability to express positive feelings towards another person and to build class unity.

A Getting-Acquainted Activity Using My Teacher’s Secret Life
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
The first days of school are filled with excitement and uncertainty. Here, in this kindergarten lesson, is a creative way for students to become familiar with the teacher and each other. The students will listen to Stephen Krensky's My Teacher's Secret Life, discuss the content, and make predictions about what everyone does when they are away from school.

A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: SECONDARY
Reading The Bully—a novel that should be especially appealing to struggling or reluctant readers—students will better understand the bully, the bullied, and the bystander. Students will use reading strategies such as literary analysis, T-charts, Readers Theatre, and reflective journals to help improve fluency and comprehension.

A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: SECONDARY
Though teenagers are known for living in the “now,” they can easily be persuaded to ponder the future—especially when it’s their own future that they’re asked to imagine. Inspired by John Updike’s poem “Ex-Basketball Player,” students write poems or prose poems intended for a real audience—themselves, five years in the future.

A Sample Behavior Contract for Teachers
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
A Sample Behavior Contract for Teachers.

Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: SECONDARY
In this activity, students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives. In class discussion, students support their lists with details from the novel. The worksheet instructions here use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as an example, but this activity is effective with any work of literature in which characterization is important. Check below for alternate characters and novels for other books that will work with this lesson.

ACTIVITIES FOR HELPING CHILDREN DEAL WITH DIVORCE
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This guide provides ideas for many activities parents can do to support their children and help them work through their feelings, concerns and frustrations regarding the divorce.

Activities to Support Standards and Learning
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
The activities that follow are for use by teachers AND counselors developed by Graduate Students at The University of Tennessee under the guidance of Dr. Marla Peterson.

Addiction--Health/Human Body lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
This lesson will help students to (a) Understand how families and peers influence their decision making; and (b) Examine the cycle of addiction to drugs and what can be done to prevent it. The site contains materials, procedures, discussion, questions, evaluation, extensions, suggested readings, vocabulary, and academic standards.

Addressing CyberBullying in Schools
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
An Article for The TechEdge: The Journal of the Texas Computer Education Association. The digital environment increasingly provides a window into face to face (F2F) as well as virtual interactions between people. Bullying, which sadly seems to be a timeless activity, has moved into virtual environments as more students have gained access to and knowledge about the Internet. While some educational leaders may prefer to metaphorically “paint over” these windows in schools to hide these negative interactions from public view, schools need to take a more proactive stance than merely banning social networking websites to adequately address issues like cyberbullying. On November 1, 2006, a panel of educators addressed issues of bullying and cyberbullying at the Oklahoma “Safe and Healthy Schools” conference sponsored by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The following are ten specific suggestions for educators and school district leaders to effectively address bullying and cyberbullying which emerged as a result of this panel discussion.

Advocates for Youth Lesson Plans
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: SECONDARY
These lesson plans help educators provide the skills and support that young people need to protect themselves and their partners from unintended pregnancy and infection with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV.

AIDS: Who#s at Risk?--Health/Human Body lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoveryScho
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 9-12
This lesson helps students to (a) analyze facts about who gets AIDS, how those populations have changed in the past few decades, and how AIDS is contracted; and (b) advocate for AIDS awareness and prevention.

Alcohol and Drug Awareness
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-12
Includes activities, worksheets, software, and more.

All About Groups, Community (5 parts)
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2
Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to: Dicuss the importance of groups in daily tasks; Identify how animals work together to fulfill group needs; Recognize their own need to be in a group in daily life activities; Report necessary information to their group in order for the group to successfully complete a task; Take turns sharing information; Listen to others in their group.

All About Groups, Community (5 parts)
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2
Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to: Dicuss the importance of groups in daily tasks; Identify how animals work together to fulfill group needs; Recognize their own need to be in a group in daily life activities; Report necessary information to their group in order for the group to successfully complete a task; Take turns sharing information; Listen to others in their group.

All About Groups, Community (5 parts)
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2
Upon successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to: Dicuss the importance of groups in daily tasks; Identify how animals work together to fulfill group needs; Recognize their own need to be in a group in daily life activities; Report necessary information to their group in order for the group to successfully complete a task; Take turns sharing information; Listen to others in their group.

All About Me
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Students will produce a slideshow documentary designed to help them recognize their individuality, respect each other's differences, and discover what makes them unique. This project will introduce students to the concept of digital portfolios. It is designed to encourage children to take pride in their accomplishments and to understand the value of preserving their work.

American Character Week: Sept. 6-14
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: k-12
To honor the memory of those lost in the attacks, and to celebrate America at its best, the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition is coordinating service-oriented and character-building activities for American Character Week, September 6-14. These lessons, we imagine, can be used all year round. This site has activity ideas with youth emphasizing character and community dervice, materials, quotations, sample proclamations -- everything you need to make this a school or community wide event.

America's Safe Schools Week Resources (Reference)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-12
These resources will help you celebrate Safe Schools Week while teaching valuable lessons.

Appreciating Yourself
Category: GENERAL CURRICULUM
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
This page is from the teaching guide for the video "Appreciating Yourself" in the video series You Can Choose! Even if you aren't showing this video there is a lot of useful material here, though you may wish to change some of the wordings or omit a few items.

ASAI's Guiding All Kids
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
The American Student Achievement Institute (ASAI) is pleased to provide counselors, teachers, parents, and community members with resources and technical assistance as they design and implement student guidance initiatives to help ALL student master defined student standards and indicators in the areas of academic, career, and citizenship development.

Assessment
Category: general curriculum
Domain: all
Level:  
There are as many variations of assessment as there are students. Look below to find ideas on assessment strategies, modifications, and enhancing your existing methods.

Beatbullying
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Beatbullying and YouTube have worked together to create a new innovative anti bullying resource for young people.

Becoming an Adult
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: SECONDARY
Students will explore options available to them as they become adults; identify obstacles that may affect future plans, and devise personal plans for the future, complete with strategies for success.

Behavior Management
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Various handouts and activities from Teach-nology.

Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
In response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist tragedy and subsequent attacks against Arab-Americans, Education Development Center, Inc. developed this curriculum for middle and high school students, focusing on issues of justice and mislaid blame.

Black History Treasure Hunt & Quiz
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: 6-12
Students get to read through online questions while receiving hints from a resource list. After responding, immediate feedback is given.

Bridging the Generation Gap
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: SECONDARY
Students get a real life lesson in sociology as they create a hypothesis about the attitudinal differences between generations, test their hypothesis with a survey, chart their findings, and present their answers to the class.

Building a community Social Studies Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksh
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 1-2
Objectives of this lesson includes: A. The students will become comfortable working with each other in an academic and social atmosphere; B. The students will explore the concept of making maps by becoming familiar with their classroom and the rest of their school and engaging in the actual building of a school map; and C. The students will discuss the concept of community and how it applies to their classroom.

Bullying Awareness Week
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Bullying Awareness Week is an opportunity for people at the grassroots level in communities around the world to get involved in this issue, not by waiting for "Someone else" to do something, but rather for us to work together on preventing bullying in our communities through education and awareness.

Bullying in Schools
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This lesson addresses bullying in schools. Students watch a video clip about a high school basketball hero who bullied some students. One student takes revenge by killing the bully. The video shows police interviews with many people in the community who might have been able to stop the bullying but did not. Students are asked to consider what the community could have done to stop the bullying, and then to draft a policy on bullying for their own school.

Career Tools (K-12) from CollegeCareerLifePlanning.com
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: CAREER
Level: ADAPTABLE
CCLP was created and is maintained by the National Education Empowerment Foundation, a non-profit organization. College Career Life Planning has no commercial purpose (e.g. no fees, no advertising, nothing for sale, no pop-ups, no log-in). It will not seek nor accept grants nor donations of any kind for the services provided.

Careers in Health--Health lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: career
Level: 6-8
Students will: 1. Identify several professions in the healthcare field; 2. Identify characteristics of effective healthcare providers; 3. Consider if any of the occupations covered in class are appropriate paths for them

Changes of Puberty--Human Body/Health lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will do the following: 1. Learn about the changes of puberty for boys and girls; and 2. Make a presentation about significant changes that take place during puberty.

Character Education
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: MIDDLE
Students will gain an understanding of imaging and information technology while learning the importance of positive character traits. Character traits such as honesty, self-discipline, determination, perseverance, and fairness will be explored. Photographs will be used to help students comprehend abstract concepts dealing with positive character.

Character Education Resources (Reference)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-12
These web resources will help you design character education programs in your school.

Classroom and Anger Managemant Resources
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
Quite a list - some free and some for a fee.

Classroom Diversity - Social Studies Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Works
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-3
An icebreaker at the beginning of a new school year which involves parents at the first open house.

Classroom Lessons/Units and Counseling Articles
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This site is designed as a reference to help school counselors become part of a team dedicated to enhancing students’ academic achievements and the schools’ climate. Classroom lessons and a list of community resources for students and families are included. There are also articles to assist counselors in facilitating individual and group counseling. We hope you find this site to be beneficial.

College Career Life Planning
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: CAREER
Level: ADAPTABLE
This web site provides access to an enormous amount of information and tools to help you (or your students, if you are a parent or teacher) to make informed career and education choices. College Career Life Planning has no commercial purpose (e.g. no fees, no advertising, nothing for sale, no pop-ups, no log-in). It will not seek nor accept grants nor donations of any kind for the services provided. The resources on College Career Life Planning can help you make informed decisions about your career that can significantly increase your chances for success, personal fulfillment, financial rewards and happiness. The decision to use them is yours. Make an investment in yourself. Choose wisely!

Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: SECONDARY
Stereotyped images create false ideals that real people can't hope to live up to, foster low self-esteem for those who don't fit in, and restrict people's ideas of what they're capable of. In this lesson, students explore representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a two-week period and then re-envisioning them with a "comic character makeover." This activity leads to greater awareness of stereotypes in the media and urges students to form more realistic visions of these images as they perform their makeovers.

Communities can stop bullying
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Bullying can take on many forms: emotional, physical, verbal, sexual, racist and cyber (spreading hurtful rumors and/or images across electronic platforms). Kids that are victims of bullies may become depressed, anxious and develop low self-esteem. They will suddenly not want to go to school, where most bullying takes place. A school bus ride, a trip to their locker, recess or lunchtime may become a fearful part of their daily school life. And sadly, there is little being done to address this issue.

Community Tool Box
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics. Topic sections include step-by-step instruction, examples, check-lists, and related resources.

Conflict Resolution
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 1-4
To help classmates have a way to solve problems without always needing the teacher. To help have responsible children help other children in the class by giving suggestions to problems.

Conflict Resolution
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Various handouts and activities from Teach-nology.

Conflict Resolution from EduHound
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Various lesson plans and links.

Cool School
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Part computer game, part educational classroom tool, COOL SCHOOL: Where Peace Rules! is a whimsical interactive game where children, ages five to seven (grades K-2), journey to the fanciful world of Cool School, where everything -- from erasers to desks to books to basketballs -- are alive and full of personality. Here, in a vibrant and fun setting, children are taught invaluable social, communication, and problem-solving skills that promote conflict resolution through negotiation, compromise, cooperation, and reconciliation.

COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
Richard Levine, Tefft Middle School, Streamwood IL provides a variety of resources including examples of WebQuest units, ready made units and lesson plans, teacher resources, and help for building your own units.

COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
It is designed as a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules and Problem-Based Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials. Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research.

Cooperation Squares (PDF)
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Classic team building, group decision making exercise.

Cooperative Games (4 page PDF)
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Cooperative Games.

Coping With College
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: SECONDARY
From the website, "Our staff have been writing a self-help column for the Illinois State student newspaper, The Daily Vidette for many years now. While we hope you had the opportunity to read these articles when they were first published, we also felt they might help students by being available here."

Counseling Portfolio Templates
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Downloadable copy of the Navigation 101: How a Focus on Planning Skills Leads to Higher Student Performance.

Creating a Community Based on Real Situations
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: career
Level: 3-5
Civics and financial situations can be difficult for a child to understand. This is a helpful, real life unit to help them truly grasp the concept.

Creating Holiday Fun for Children
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 9-12
A high school lesson plan for students in child development/care classes - creating fun Holiday ideas for children.

Cruel Schools--Health lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
By the end of these lessons, students will be able to: 1. Describe the continuum of violence; 2. Identify ways to personally make a difference in their school; 3. State and carry out the basics of research and data collection; 4. Gain experience in drawing conclusions and summarizing concepts; and 5. Participate in group/team activity to solve problems. This site has downloadable handouts and even a song!

CSEFEL: Practical Strategies
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
All kinds of forms, handouts, stories, and more for helping children with social and emotional learning.

Curriculum Resource Guide for Nutrition & Physical Activity Classes
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
From the Virginia Action for Healthy Kids.

Cyberbullying from Netsmatz.org
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to harass or bully others. Watch our new series and discuss with teens what they can do to avoid becoming a victim or victimizing someone else.

Cyberbullying.us Resources
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Handouts, fact sheets, activities and more!

Cyberbullying: Instant Cruelty (PDF)
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Your children will explore the ramifications of cyberbullying and examine the values that can prevent it.

Cyberbullying: Not Just Name-Calling
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Harassment and humiliation take on new forms in Cyberspace. Learn about the consequences, actions and reactions of using cell phones, the Internet and other digital devices to bully ones peers.

CyberSkill Development
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
From the website: The CyberSmart! Education Company is dedicated to teaching secure, responsible and effective Internet and computer use. We are a national leader calling for a nationwide commitment and coordinated action agenda to teach cyber skills in order to build the social foundation and culture of secure computing in the 21st century. We provide free curriculum for American’s 54 million school children and related fee-based training resources for K-12 administrators, technology leaders, librarians, media specialists, classroom teachers, parents and cyber security awareness training for Fortune 1000 enterprise employees.

Dealing with Bullies
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6
The Dealing with Bullies lesson is a conducted in the 6th grade FACS classroom during the second month of school. The guidance lesson was developed to assist incoming 6th grade students in dealing with the situations that might arise as they enter the middle school setting. The lesson is presented in a fifty-five (55) minute classroom environment and is adopted from several different guidance curricula, including Sunburst staff development and Current Health magazine.

Dealing with Online Bullies
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: MIDDLE
Students reflect on the rewards of cyberspace and then consider bullying scenarios in which they examine their personal comfort levels. They learn to recognize such feelings and responsibly handle the unacceptable behavior of others.

Death and the Grief Reaction Process
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-12
Learn how to help students cope with death and the grieving process.

Decision Making
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Various handouts and activities.

Drawing Conclusions from Incomplete Data (Lesson Plan)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students examine a series of photographs from which crucial sections have been masked or cut away. They will draw conclusions about the images. After viewing the complete images and reading the accompanying explanation, they will compare their conclusions with the facts.

Drug Abuse Prevention Resources (Reference)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
Age appropriate resources to help you develop a drug abuse prevention program.

Drug And Violence Education
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
This is a search engine for various lesson plans.

E pals Computer Lesson Plan
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: 2
A lesson which uses epals.com to help students learn about each other through computer mediated communication.

Early Identification of Potential Violence Resources (Reference)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
These resources will help you identify behavior that may predict future violent behavior.

Education Center Activity: Around the World
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-4
Celebrate the diversity of your community by setting aside special days throughout the school year to celebrate other cultures.

Education Center Activity: Convince Me!
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 4-6
Your students may be aware of the techniques used by advertisers to sell products and services. They may be less conscious of the purposes and intents of advertisements that try to shape their opinions and affect their behavior. In this activity, they look for and analyze examples of those ads.

Education Center Activity: Honor Special People
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-4
Students design a postage stamp to honor a special person. Students identify people who have made a difference, analyze why people commemorate others, and describe ways individuals can help others.

Education Center Activity: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 4-6
The following mirror exercises will help students develop their observational skills so that they learn how to catch nuances of body movements and facial clues from their partners and respond to them. This collaborative effort can then translate into creative expression.

Education Center Activity: Teamwork
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-4
This activity will give students the opportunity to consider what is involved in cooperative efforts and why real teamwork can be very effective. As a result, they may be able to offer suggestions for improving cooperation in their own classroom.

Education Place Activity: A Letter to Myself
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Children set goals for the future and think about how they will achieve them.

Education Place Activity: Back From the Future
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students examine their school community and culture from the point of view of someone from the future.

Education Place Activity: Cultural Show and Tell
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-5
Students will research their own cultural heritage and share it with the class in a Show and Tell presentation.

Education Place Activity: Dramatic Dilemmas
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students develop skits that deal with the following aspects of decision making: 1) projecting possible long-term impacts of a decision, and 2) taking risks. Includes downloadable files.

Education Place Activity: Finding Common Ground
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will work in groups to find "win-win" solutions to common middle school problems. Includes a worksheet.

Education Place Activity: Identifying Conflicts
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students identify different types of conflicts present in various situations. Includes downloadable files.

Education Place Activity: Jobs on File
Category: lesson plans
Domain: career
Level: 6-8
Students gather information about how people in their community make a living through surveys and interviews, and then organize that data. Includes downloads!

Education Place Activity: Make a Big Welcome Book
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: academic
Level: k-2
With this activity, children work as a team to create a "welcome book" to help new students feel at ease, and to express a personal view of their school and themselves.

Education Place Activity: My Side of the Story
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students involved in an argument will use an incident report form to tell their sides of the story.

Education Place Activity: Teamwork
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students identify what kinds of attitudes and behaviors are productive in a cooperative setting.

Education Place Activity: Tools for Tomorrow
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: career
Level: 6-8
Students identify tools that might be used in a range of careers of the future.

Education Place Activity: We Can Work It Out
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will learn how to consider alternatives before reacting to a conflict.

Education Place Activity: When the Going Gets Rough...
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will reflect on what strategies they have used--and with what degree of success--when confronted with frustration or difficulty in an assignment, project, or activity.

Education Place Activity: When You're Hot, You're Hot...
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students use the medium of visual arts to demonstrate how colors can evoke different perspectives and feelings

Educational Software Programs
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level:  
Lots of them!

Educators for Social Responsibility Home Page
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level:  
ESR's mission is to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world.

Eduhound Topic of the Week: Violence Prevention
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Educators play a key role in keeping students safe, through the development of school violence prevention plans, implementation of effective programs which provide students with supervision and guidance, and recognition and response to warning signs of violent student behavior.

Elementary Counseling Classroom Units
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Elementary classroom guidance units for Kindergarten through 2nd Grade, 3rd through 4th grade and 5th through 6th grade.

Exploring Career Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: CAREER
Level: ADAPTABLE
Exploring Career Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Also includes an A-Z list of careers.

Family
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-3
A collection of activities to foster family understanding and connections.

Family Changes Social Studies Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, o
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 1
The students will demonstrate understanding of change, and how families solve problems in different ways.

Family Diagrams
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 1-2
The students will make a picture diagram of his or her family.

Family Involvement Project Letters
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: all
A collection of letters to send home which facilitaties family involvement.

Family Involvement Resources
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
Use these resources to help increase family involvement in your school.

Family Involvement-Other ideas
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: all
Ideas to stimulate family involvement.

Family Resume
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: career
Level: 6-12
Provides an outline to help students create a resume that demonstrates family purpose.

Family Trees Using Technology
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 5-8
Help students create a family tree with photos created on computers using scanners is the outcome of this lesson idea.

Filamentality 2.0
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: All
Level: k-12
According to the site, Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. It helps combine the "filaments" of the Web with a learner's "mentality". Support is built-in through Mentality Tips that guide you along the way to creating a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot stuff. Filamentality will help you create and post a Web-based learning page. You don't need to know any HTML and you can go back and edit it at any time.

FLEXIBLE THINKING-SQUIGGLE ART
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: academic
Level: k-5
It is very difficult for some students to be flexible thinkers. They feel stifled in the creative mode due to various messages they have received from parents, teachers, peers and, even themselves. The purpose of this activity is to create an atmosphere and a feeling of success in creativity.

Free Icebreakers
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This collection of Icebreakers was compiled from various sources. All of these were anonymous or had multiple claims of authorship. Some were created by the staff of Training Games, Inc. In any case, they are all provided free with no claims of authorship.

Friends
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-3
A collection of activities for fostering friendships at the elementary level.

Friendship Flowers
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 1-3
This lesson facilitates a discusion about friends and the good qualities that a friend should posses.

Get acquainted activity - 'Truth & Lies' game
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-5
This is a fun, get-acquainted activity. Used in the beginning of the school year, during a class party, or at the end of the year.

Getting to Know Me
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-3
The student will construct a dated timeline of their life using photos and magazine cutouts to display information.

Go Girl! Check out the Cool Careers
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This lesson is designed for the girls in your class. No boys allowed! It features helping girls learn about and consider careers in IT and engineering.

Going to School
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ACADEMIC
Level: ELEMENTARY
This resource "delivers practical strategies and useful insights to help parents guide their kids through school." Provides a grade-by-grade summary of learning topics (through grade 5), and suggestions for adjusting to starting school and for talking with children about school, your child's social life, parent-teacher relationships, and more. Part of a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) website for parents; co-produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and Content Inventions, an educational media consulting firm.

Group Activities, Games, Exercises & Initiatives
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Variety of games and other group activities.

Guidance Curriculum for the Comprehensive School Counseling Program
Category: GENERAL CURRICULUM
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
All levels and all domains ... a must visit site.

Halloween Safety Tips
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-8
Give this handout of safety tips for Halloween to parents as a way to ensure a happy and SAFE Halloween for everybody.

Helping Hands Social Studies Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-5
An ongoing lesson that I am doing in my classroom to help children learn that our hands are for helping.

Helping Your Students With Homework
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ACADEMIC
Level: ADAPTABLE
For the user's convenience, this document is also available inportable document format (pdf)[85K] which is linked to this page.

High School College and Career Page from AOL
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: CAREER
Level: SECONDARY
Variety of information and tools to use.

History and culture through food
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: MIDDLE
Students select a favorite family recipe. They research the recipe and the ingredients using a variety of sources on the Internet. Each student then creates a recipe flyer for a class cookbook that includes the recipe and the historical and cultural information they learned about it.

How are you feeling?
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
In this unit students will learn to recognise and label emotions in themselves and others, developing conceptual understandings and vocabulary for expression of feelings. Increased awareness of how emotions affect our bodies enhances the potential to choose our behaviour. The connection between emotion and physical sensation underpins protective behaviours concepts.Understanding feelings also increases our capacity to

How do I feel?
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: prek-k
To think about their feelings and the feelings of others. How to solve problems without fighting.

How to run a brainstorming meeting
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
A well-written essay about the nature of brainstorming with relevant ideas/techniques.

Hypnosis Software
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level:  
Easily create the perfect hypnosis (guided imagery) to fit your exact needs and preferences - any topic, any imagery! Then, have it sent to any email address, your own or some else's. Thirty-two self-help topics are available or you can create your own.

I am thankful for.... A Thanksgiving Acitivty
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 1-2
An activity that has definitely stood the test of time.

Icebreaker Activities
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Ease student anxieties about entering a new classroom with these creative icebreakers. Each one encourages students to learn about classmates and creates opportunities to practice observation and description skills.

Internet Safety
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Lesson plans, reproducibles, and activity sheets.

Internet Safety: Parents and Guardians
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: MIDDLE
To learn how to keep your children safer, watch the video "Internet Safety: What You Don't Know Can Hurt Your Child" and get a copy of the accompanying resource guide. Use the resource guide, and check this website for updates about new developments like MySpace.

Internet Smarts
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Explore important topics in Internet use at school or at home. These guided, multimedia activities allow you to examine issues affecting schoolwork, class papers, entertainment activities and online safety.

It's Me!
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-3
The students will complete a "Picture in Print" with three listed characteristics that make them special from anyone else and share these with the class.

Jefferson County Schools (TN) PowerPoints and Printable forms
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Forms, lesson plans, and great links.

K-8 Education Place
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level:  
Professional Development, searchable activity database, educational games, and textbook support from Houghton Mifflin.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Assessment and Rubric Informatoin
Category: general curriculum
Domain: All
Level:  
Kathy says, "Now that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. A usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes. Below you will find a collection of assessment rubrics that may be helpful to you as you design your own." This site links to a wealth of rubric information.

Kid Smart Internet Safety
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
On this part of the website you can find 5 lesson resources on Internet safety which you can use in the classroom. Some are simple, for example the Have Fun Communicating exercise. Others will take more time and involve you using or ordering the other resources on this website. We are constantly revising and improving these resources following your feedback, so if you do download them we would really like to hear about your experience with them.

Kids Graphing Program
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
Have you heard the saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words"? This online graph generator for children (and adults) can help the counselor to assist clients in visually depicting their progress.

Know The Phone In An Emergency
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-3
The purpose of this lesson is to educate our children to stay calm in emergencies and to be prepared to take action using the phone. It can be so easy to panic in emergency situations. This is why it is important that children know necessary information and necessary phone numbers to use. A great way to have a poster with all necessary phone numbers on it. By doing this children will be educated safety and they will be prepared in an emergency.

KultureZone.com
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level:  
Kulture Kids helps students in grades K-8 better understand and appreciate African American culture. The site includes a series of timelines showcasing great events in African American history, twenty-six African American biographies and great events in African American history from A-Z, a monthly calendar of events, a Kool Corner where kids can play word search games or color online, a Photo Gallery, and a Teacher's Section with lesson plans related to African American history, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and women.

Learning About and Using Spreadsheets
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Lots of tutorials and worksheets all about spreadsheets. Integrate technology in your lessons and have students chart their own counseling or competency progress.

Learning Outside the Lines: Six Innovative Programs That Reach Youth (PDF).
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This report, prepared in conjunction with the WK Kellogg Foundation, details distinctive learning environments, in and outside school, that garner from young people deep engagement and high achievement. Featured are the Llano Grande Center in Edcouch-Elsa, TX; the Educational Video Center in New York City; Best Practice High School in Chicago; the Algebra Project in Jackson, MS; The Food Project in Boston; and The Met in Providence, RI. (March 2002)

Lesson Plan: All About Me
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: MIDDLE
Students create an autobiographical, multimedia presentation that helps them practice public speaking and learn about technology that facilitates presentations.

Lesson Plans and Discussion Guides from In the Mix
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Lesson Plans and Discussion Guides from In the Mix. Lots of different competencies.

Lesson Plans from Fujifilm
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Lesson Plans bring together FujiFilm imaging and storage technologies with hands-on learning and creative problem solving. As part of FujiFilm's product donation program, educators are encouraged to submit original lesson plans that have educational merit and clearly demonstrate the creative integration of imaging and information technology into teaching and learning. Read the grant Guidelines and apply now for a product donations grant.

Lesson Plans from TeacherVision
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level:  
Browse by topic to find lessons and resources for your classroom. Includes printables, tools, and assessments.

Lesson Plans from Textbook Revolution
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
You can find the books by browsing through the categories listed on the side. Since some books cross categories, you can also search for books using the search form at the top.

Lesson Plans from the Teacher
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
These comprehensive lesson plans have been designed by teachers, for teachers in order to improve student achievement in classrooms across the nation and abroad. Click on a subject field to discover a wealth of curriculum materials that you can use! These lesson plan units are also organized according to grade levels.

Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Network
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
These comprehensive lesson plans have been designed by teachers, for teachers in order to improve student achievement in classrooms across the nation and abroad. Click on a subject field to discover a wealth of curriculum materials that you can use! These lesson plan units are also organized according to grade levels.

Let's Fight it Together: A Cyberbullying film
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Let's Fight it Together: A Cyberbullying film. Comes with a teacher's guide.

Let's Talk: Runaway Prevention Curriculum
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Let's Talk is an interactive, 14 module curriculum intended to build life skills; increase knowledge about runaway resources and prevention; educate about alternatives to running away; and encourage youth to access and seek help from trusted community members. The curriculum is intended for grades 6-12 but can be adapted for broader use. Let's Talk, accompanied by the companion film 1-800-RUNAWAY, provides you with easy-to-use, 45 minute lessons on various topics and over 40 interactive youth approved activities. This program was developed to implement in its entirety, as individual modules, or by individual activity to supplement other strategies that you may already be using.

Links for Academic Skills
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ACADEMIC
Level: ADAPTABLE
Handouts and Self-Assessments on Various Academic Topics from student counseling services at Salisbury University.

Meet Our Class
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Kids survey themselves about their likes and dislikes, daydreams, and friends. They then interview classmates to create a classroom gallery of personalities - a great beginning-of-the-year ice-breaker!

Mexican Food
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 5
This is one of several lessons about food vocabulary. This lesson introduces Mexican food and the history behind it. The main objective of this lesson is to introduce new food vocabulary to the students. In addition, the students will also participate in classroom activities, make a menu of their own, take quizzes, and use the internet to practice the vocabulary. The students will apply what they learn in a Mexican restaurant, by ordering their meal in Spanish.

Middle School: Movin' On Up (Middle School Transition)
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Congrats! You never thought the moment would arrive, but here it is...you've finally graduated from elementary school! Now it's time to move on up to the big leagues. That's right...you're about to take on middle school.

Monthly Themes
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level:  
Learning activities by monthly themes. Download a full calendar.

Multi-cultural Calendar
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 4
The students will learn about various cultures by making a multi-cultural calendar.

Multicultural Education Pavilion
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
From the website, "Through the Multicultural Pavilion, I strive to provide resources for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education; facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness and development; and provide forums for educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education. The Pavilion was created by Paul Gorski in 1995 with inspiration from Bob Covert, Charlene Green, Allen Saunders, and other colleagues at the University of Virgina."

NC Guidance Curriculum for the Comprehensive School Counseling Program
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Files in both HTML and PDF for all levels and National Standard Domains. A must see!

New Friend
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
A New Friend is personalized storybook and coloring book featuring your child as the main character. A new student arrives in class one day. Will your child welcome her? Use this story to explore with children how we make friends, even with those who may seem in many ways unlike us. (Ages 4-7)

New Year Reflection Mobil
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
Students will complete a mobile of events that were important to them in the year 2001 (or any year thereafter).

Nortel LearniT Lesson Plans
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Nortel LearniT lesson plans are designed to keep the focus on the subjects that you are teaching. Our lessons are all project-based and use 21 st century technologies to empower students to demonstrate that they understand key learning objectives. By coupling the use of these technologies with the task of demonstrating their proficiency, students grow their digital literacy skills in an applied, non-technological focus.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Guidance Curriculum
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Some of the following files are downloadable as Adobe Acrobat Documents. You will need to have Adobe's free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print these files. HTML versions of the entire curriculum do not require any special reader.

NY Times Daily Lesson Plan Archive
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.

On Our Way
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: SECONDARY
Students create personal Web sites portraying themselves and their world in a "best case" scenario ten years from now. Along the way, they interview each other about how much has changed since high school.

One Teen at a Time Campaign
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW)/Partnerships in Program Planning Project for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH) project has launched the "One Teen at a Time Campaign." This web-based public education campaign includes resources and tools to assist teens, parents and professionals in achieving healthy and positive outcomes. The goal of the campaign is to promote positive youth development by focusing on social and emotional skills, as well as offering information about diversity and tolerance. The campaign includes information and resources on adolescent health and practical tools for professionals, families and teens, as well as downloadable posters, bookmarks and stickers.

Opposing Gangs in Schools Resources (Reference)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
These resources help communities identify gangs and develop programs to deal with them.

Orange County Public Schools Guidance Curriculum
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
The Student Development Program of Orange County Public Schools is committed to the development of the total child and the formation of productive, responsible citizens by addressing skills that will promote and enhance learning. These skill areas are divided among academic development, career development, and personal/social development. Examples of specific skills are decision-making, conflict resolution and study skills.

Our Bodies (PDF)
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Our Bodies is approximately a week long unit focusing on kindergarten, which gives a basic overview of our bodies and how they work. Students will learn about the various aspects of the human body such as muscles, imprints, senses, and specific characteris tics that affect the way we look. Students will explore the way our lifestyles affect our bodies. Upon completion of this unit, students will have a better understanding of the human body. They will also realize that everyone is basically the same, but yet the characteristics are very different. The students will also feel more confident in their knowledge of their bodies and the way they work.

Our Brilliant Careers
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: CAREER
Level: ADAPTABLE
Students answer the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" They then research these real careers and save their findings in a career database.

Paint a Picture of what you want to be
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: career
Level: k-3
Using art to discuss careers.

Painting a T-Shirt - Career
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: career
Level: 1-3
Students look through different books in the library, all of which describe a certain job. Then, when they have all chosen a career they thought was interesting, they return to the classroom and each child paints a t-shirt in the style of the career they chose. When they are finished with that, they get up wearing their shirt and tell the group about what their job was and what they would do there.

Penny's Search
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: CAREER
Level: MIDDLE
Content in this lesson features computer careers, girls/women in technology, and learning about search engines, wireless communication, and file transfer from computer to computer. Activities include the Penny Search game, a follow-up discussion, and ideas for homework assignments.

Pepsi Bear
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-2
To increase children's confidence, and improve speaking and listening skills.

Personal Best
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Students choose one personal goal -- anything from improving a class score to perfecting a jump shot -- and use a private online journal to chart their own progress as they work toward that goal.

Planet Orange
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: CAREER
Level: ADAPTABLE
Headquartered in Wilmington, Del. with offices in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and St. Cloud, Minn., ING DIRECT (ingdirect.com) is a federally chartered savings bank that is committed to financial literacy for children and adults and supports programs that help the community learn the importance of saving. To increase financial literacy among youth, ING DIRECT established Planet Orange (orangekids.com), a dynamic, educational Web site that helps kids learn about money management basics. Recognized as a USA TODAY Education “Best Bet” and Forbes.com “Best of the Web,” Planet Orange includes a Teachers Resource Center, which features free, downloadable lesson plans and quizzes that fit state academic standards and can be easily incorporated into the classroom.

Point Smart. Click Safe.
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Today’s kids know how to use the technology, but do they understand internet safety concerns, cyber ethical dilemmas and how to think critically about the media and technology they use? Point Smart. Click Safe., a new cable initiative, helps you teach them how to be smart, safe and savvy in the digital world.

Positive Character Traits
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Students will gain an understanding of imaging and information technology while learning the importance of positive character traits. Students will explore character traits such as respect, responsibility, courage, compassion, and citizenship. Digital photos will be used to help students comprehend and communicate these abstract concepts.

Practical Ideas from the CSEFEL.
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Handouts, tools, and references for teaching social-emotional skills.

Printables
Category: general curriculum
Domain: all
Level:  
These ready-to-use teaching tools will help you reinforce a concept, enhance parent communications, organize materials, monitor student behavior, share info with substitutes, and much more.

Puberty--Human Body lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will understand the following: 1. People can track body changes during puberty by close observation and accurate record keeping.

Puppet Role Playing/Substance Use and Abuse
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-2
To teach effective prevention strategies based on self-esteem, refusal skills, personal responsibility, decision making, positive peer support and healthy lifestyles. To instill in young people a sense of pride and confidence in their ability to be drug free.

Queen's Univeristy Instructional Development Centre
Category: general curriculum
Domain: All
Level:  
Excellent links to assessing student learning; curriculum & development; diversity; educational technology; facilitating groups; portffolios; teaching assistant development; and more.

Reach for Your Dreams
Category: lesson plans
Domain: career
Level: k-5
Reach for Your Dreams is a serious of activities geared for use with elementary age children and their families. Reach for Your Dreams is a family activity book that contains a story line with corresponding activities. This program is designed to assist student recognition and development of their gifts, talents, dreams, and increase self-esteem. The thirty-six activities, along with the story line, provide opportunities for students to explore the areas of: self-discovery, communication skills, getting along, choices, exploring emotions, and recognizing dreams. Many of the activities are adaptable to be used within the classroom, small group settings, or in one-on-one meetings. Other activities require family involvement and include the parents in supporting their son or daughter#s growth.

Red Ribbon Week Activities for Schools
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
A bulleted list of ideas.

Reproducibles about Bullying
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Variety of topics and reproducibles.

Resolving Conflicts--Health lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will do the following: 1. Examine different kinds of hurtful behavior; 2. Develop strategies for dealing with hurtful behavior; 3. Work with their peers to create an environment in which students treat each other respectfully.

Resources for Exploring Leaders
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Helpful tools for youth and adult leaders.

Sailing Through The Storm
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-3
"Sailing Through The Storm To The Ocean Of Peace," is a classroom guidance lesson developed by Cheryl Biegler, along with other Lakeville area elementary counselors, to assist elementary students (grades 2-3) in identifying different kinds of violence/bullying and the feelings that often accompany violence/bullying. Students also learn methods to cope with and resolve violent situations.

Sample Guidance Lessons from Minnesota State University
Category: general curriculum
Domain: all
Level: k-12
This page offeres lessons by grade level which were created by interns in the Professional School Counseling Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

SBC Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer : Online Learning : Blue Web'n Homep
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: ALL
Level:  
A library of blue ribbon learning sites on the web searchable by content area, subject area, or grade level.

School Bus Safety Resources (Reference)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: k-12
Resources which will help you teach bus safety through lessons, songs, activities, and debate.

School Counseling Resources
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
PowerPoint presentations, printable forms, and lots of links on a variety of topics too numerous to mention.

School Safety
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Students learn more effectively in places where they feel safe and secure from harm. To help schools develop and implement comprehensive school safety promotion programs, information is provided on ways to establish a sense of community among staff and students, assessing the conditions in the learning environment to ascertain how safe and secure students feel, developing ways to enhance security in areas in the school that are known to be high risk areas for violence, preparing the staff and community to respond to a crisis should one occur, providing services for students and their families in order to maximize a student's learning potential, and creating a safe, supportive workplace for school personnel.

Self-Esteem Activity
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 4-7
This strategy, used at the beginning of the day, can increase the positive feelings of each student and the classroom atmosphere as well.

Self-Esteem--Health lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will do the following: 1. Explore the concept of self-esteem; 2. Analyze their personal strengths and weaknesses; 3. Consider the role self-esteem plays in a healthy life.

Sexual Harassment Resources (Reference)
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-12
Find resources on the legalities and practical ways to prevent sexual harassment.

Sexual Harassment--Health lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 9-12
Students will do the following: 1. Define the term sexual harassment; 2. Identify examples of sexual harassment; 3. Consider appropriate responses to sexual harassment

Sexual Pressures--Health lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
By the end of these lessons, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the sexual pressures among teen youth; 2. Create personal approaches to questions addressing sexual behavior; 3. Practice skills in speaking and listening as tools for learning; and 4. Apply basic skills of logic and reasoning.

Social/Personal Group Curriculum from PAYD
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Downloadable group lesson plans from the Promoting Alabama Youth Development (PAYD) program regarding coping skills.

Spanish Cultures
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 4
This lesson plan could be taught over a period of 3 or 4 days and could be used during a unit of study of different cultures.

Special Education
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Special Education lesson plans from teach-nology.

St Paul Public School Counseling Department Elementary Lessons
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
These elementary classroom guidance units are split up by Kindergarten through 2nd Grade, 3rd through 4th grade and 5th through 6th grade. The number in Parenthesis after name of the unit indicates how many lessons are in each unit.

Stories of AIDS--Health/Human Body lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.co
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 9-12
Students will do the following: 1. Examine the physical effects of AIDS; and 2. Study the plight of people living with AIDS and the effects on their families and friends

Stranger Danger and others
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
From the California Association of School Counselors.

Students in Service to American Tools
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Listed here are resources and tools that may assist you in designing and implementing service projects and service-learning programs. Those listed here are available on the Internet. They are organized according to topics that represent some of the major components of service activities. Topics include: getting started, finding help, program directories and models, national organizations, curriculum connections, civic education and character education resources, finding funding, partnerships, youth voice, reflection, evaluation and assessment, and recognition programs. The list is not exhaustive, but is a sample of useful and readily available materials that will lead you to additional resources according to your needs and interests.

Study Habits & Test Anxiety
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: SECONDARY
Lots of other related documents/resources too.

Substance Abuse
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Various activites and handouts.

Summer Safety Safari
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 1
First grade students will demonstrate their understanding of summer safety by creating guidelines for Summer Safety posters.

Sunburst Visual FREE Activities
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Enjoy a free activity and lesson plan from Sunburst Visual media's award-winning programs. Designed for busy educators, each activity comes with a downloadeable blackline master which can be reproduced for your students. Each activity has several options which can help you to extend student learning. Check back each month for a new activity.

Taking a Closer Look: A Guide to Online Resources on Family Involvement
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This comprehensive resource guide compiles a wealth of information about family involvement from over 100 national organizations. It contains Web links to recent (published in and after 2000) research, information, and tools.

Talk Time!
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 3-5
To get students to talk during the first few days of school.

Talk With Your Kids About Violence (Booklet; PDF)
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Also in Spanish.

Teachers.Net - COUNSELING CHATBOARD
Category: general curriculum
Domain: all
Level:  
This bulletin board style forum is dedicated to discussions related to school counseling and student advising.

TeachersFirst Internet Safety Lesson Links
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Do a lesson on Internet Safety using one of the resources from TeachersFirst and have students make web safety posters, PowerPoints, or videos.

TeachinFlorida.com Lesson Plan Database
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
TeachinFlorida.com has partnered with the Gateway to Educational Materials to provide instant access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units, and other Internet education resources. You’ll find thousands of resources from various federal, State, University, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

Teaching About Terrorism
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: all
Level: 6-12
CLASSROOM MATERIALS RELATED TO THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TERRORIST ATTACK is presented by Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE). It offers teachers in grades 6-12 curriculum resources and materials to help students comprehend and respond to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Teaching Tolerance's educational kits
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Teaching Tolerance's educational kits and subscriptions to its magazine are FREE to: classroom teachers, school librarians, school counselors, school administrators, professors of education, leaders of homeschool networks, youth directors at houses of worship and employees of youth-serving nonprofit organizations.

Team Building
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Various team building activities.

Team Building Activities for Elementary Students
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
Here are suggestions for games, activities, and lesson plans to encourage team building among elementary school students. There are indoor and outdoor activities, and cross-curricular lesson ideas. Many of these activities can be adapted for different age groups. Included are eThemes resources on cooperative learning and cooperative problem solving.

Team Building Resources
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Anyone who has been to summer camp knows how difficult it can be to get a team of people working effectively on any number of projects, including the construction of a canoe or developing a plan to craft leather wallets. It can be even more trying to create team-building exercises for adults in any number of professions, including health care experts, vehicle maintenance specialists, and so on. This website provides interested parties with access to a number of team-building tools, including articles on developing efficient meetings, ethical conflict resolution, and performance review systems. The site is rounded out by a brief selection of team building games, including one that draws on the use of tennis balls and another that involves paper plates.

Teamwork Poetry Presentation
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 2-6
This lesson is on poetry and teamwork, using a Poem from Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul.

Technology Rich Native American Unit
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 5
The incorporation of Native American history, culture, and philosophy into an educational program is significant learning for children of today. This unit will lead students to higher level thinking skills and appreciation for Native Americans. Students who learn about diverse cultural activities will educate themselves and gain a better understanding of Native American people.

Teen Pregnancy--Health/Human Body lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-8
Students will do the following: 1. Consider the short- and long-term consequences of teenagers having babies; 2. Recognize the responsibilities associated with being pregnant and having a newborn; 3. Become familiar with the resources available in their community for pregnant teenagers

Teens: Discovering Who I Am
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: career
Level: 9-12
An online instrument with feedback.

Tell your family story through a totem pole.
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
This Microsoft lesson plan shows students to tell their family story through a totem pole.

Ten Ways to Break the Ice!
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Ten Ways to Break the Ice! Neat activites ...

Texas Drug And Violence Education (D.A.V.E.) · Lesson Search
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 6-12
Counselors may search for lesson plans complete with objectives, activities, assessment plan, and resource materials. Lessons are searchable by subject area and grade level. Counselors will find most applicable lessons in subject areas including Career and Technology, Health, and Social Studies. Some lessons contain the same topic for different grade levels. This one is a must see!

The Class Meeting
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
A video and other resources that depicts the classroom meeting to work out issues and conflicts.

The Gremlins Go To School
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: academic
Level: 5-6
The main aim of the activity is to discuss school life in a new and amusing way. You could use it to break the ice at the first meeting with your students, whether at the beginning of the course or term, or anytime when you want to focus on class management issues. Pointing out inappropriate behaviour will hopefully persuade the students to change their attitude.

The People Next Door
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 5-8
A project involving learning more about the geography, the history, the traditions and the culture of our neighbors in France, Morocco and Portugal.

This is your life.
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 7-12
The author tells students, "There are many elements of your life that you may not know about. Your goal here is to explore your background and discover information about you. You will accomplish compiling your autobiography in three ways."

Time Management from PBS
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ADAPTABLE
If you learn to tame the time monster, you might be surprised at how much you can get done. The real reward, however, is that you’ll probably feel less stressed and more happy.

Timeline Generator
Category: ADAPTABLE RESOURCES
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
This generator can be used to make time lines of up to 9 events of your choice.

To Smoke or not to Smoke?
Category: adaptable resources
Domain: personal/social
Level: 7-8
Helps students understand strategies used in advertising.

Tobacco/Smoking Resistance
Category: lesson plans
Domain: personal/social
Level: k-3
The student will be able to 1. Recall the detrimental effects of smoking; 2. Role play a peer pressure situation of smoking.

Training a Class in Discussion Skills
Category: lesson plans
Domain: academic
Level: 6-12
A series of activities developed by Barbara Stanford of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, to train students in discussion skills. Appropriate for middle level and high school classes.

TUSD ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
To view these items, you will need the free Acrobat Reader.

TUSD Guidance and Counseling Dept. ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: ALL
Level: ELEMENTARY
These are all PDF files for download. Lots of subjects!

Understanding Our Feelings
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: ADAPTABLE
Understaning emotions.

Understanding Stereotypes
Category: LESSON PLANS
Domain: PERSONAL/SOCIAL
Level: SECONDARY
Students will understand the following: Assumptions can lead to stereotypes and unfair judgments about individuals and groups; Stereotypes and biases affect our lives.