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- Mr. Griggs' Work
- The students will learn about the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, honesty, and effort in the workplace through the reading of the book Mr. Griggs' Work. The students will have the opportunity to explore these character traits in their own work setting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By William Hodge.
- Character education: Honesty
- This lesson will focus on two character education traits - honesty and friendship. During this lesson the students will conduct a character analysis and link prior knowledge to help understand the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By LaTina Robinson.
- The hero connection: From Beowulf to Batman
- After reading Beowulf,students will identify Beowulf's heroic traits, generalize from these traits a list of typical traits for heroes, and then use these traits to compare Beowulf with contemporary heroes. As a culminating activity, students will define their concept of hero and then create a booklet of personal heroes from various areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Hilda Caldwell.
- Graphically organize a biography
- This lesson is a good ending to a unit on biographies. The students will work together in small groups to create a poster that displays the information from a biography in a graphic organizer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Ellen Benton.
- Media mind control
- Some research studies indicate that the common portrayal of violence on television has desensitized children towards it. The purpose of this lesson is to help students redevelop their sensitivity towards violence and develop a critical attitude towards the purpose of violence in television.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance)
- By Linda Nelson.
- Animal folktales: Legends, superheroes, and pourquoi tales
- In Rethinking Reports, page 2.2
- By writing a narrative about an animal rather than a traditional report, students can learn about literature, develop writing skills, and still fulfill science and research objectives.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Respect and responsibility character traits: Cut and paste activity
- Using 20 different quotations that are out of sequential order--each with a relationship to the respect and responsibility character traits--students are to cut and paste the text in ascending sequential order, save, and print.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Jane M. Harris.
- Integrating character education: A lesson on responsibility
- Activity on the character trait of responsibility.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Cheryl Stafford.
- To Kill A Mockingbird role-play: A Maycomb pig pickin'
- Somewhere near the middle of reading the novel, students start to become confused about characters. This fun role-play activity works especially well just after Chapter 21 and allows students to get to know characters beyond Jem and Scout. It also can be a springboard into further discussions of point of view, theme, and stereotypes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By David Ansbacher.
- A friend, starting with you!
- This lesson helps students learn about themselves and how good a friend they are to others. It helps children identify their own special talents and characteristics while showing the importance of good self-esteem in making new friends.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Sara Smith.
- Getting along with others
- This lesson introduces the key concepts of cooperation, peer relations, interpersonal skills, getting along with others, and team-building.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Scott Ertl.
- Oedipus the King: Personal letter-writing assignment
- Students will work in groups to evaluate the personality of various characters from Oedipus the King. Each student will write two personal letters in the role of one character from the play responding to the events of the play and the various relationships within it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Greg Townsend.
- Weaving picture books into narrative writing
- Children's picture books are the perfect medium for mini-lessons in narrative writing. Teachers provide books which demonstrate the qualities the students need to develop in their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Jan Caldwell.
- The Greensboro Sit-ins
- Students will explore the Greensboro Sit-ins. They will experience segregation through drama, research the people involved in the protest at Woolworth's, and then stage a re-enactment of the event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Information Skills, Social Studies, and Theater Arts Education)
- By Lucinda Gainey.
- Adjectives: Hero versus Villain
- Students will compare and contrast a hero and a villain through a variety of oral and written activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Rebecca Watkins.
- Basic strategies for assigning homework
- Suggestions for establishing homework assignments and policies.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Differences across the curriculum: Part 2
- This set of lessons can be used with "Differences across the curriculum: Part 1" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias, which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 2, is meant to augment the pre-reading activities completed in Part 1 in a Social Studies class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Lynn Carter.
- Get your character education act together!
- Elements of an effective character education program and lots of ideas for implementation—all across the curriculum.
- By Frances B. Lewis.
- Educating leaders for tomorrow
- The intent of this lesson is to demonstrate the need for (student) citizens to assume learning and leading roles and behaviors that will better ensure a successful future.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By David Newsome.
- Comparing/contrasting characters: A Taste of Blackberries
- This lesson is designed to use with Chapter 1 of the novel A Taste of Blackberries. Students will use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two main characters and then relate the material to their own lives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By Denise Caudle.
