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Fun with Character: Together We Are Stronger
A classroom activity to help understand Collaboration by exploring strength in numbers and group unity by attempting to break a single toothpick versus a bundled group, and reflecting on how working together makes a team more resilient.
Fun with Character: String Painting
A classroom activity to help understand Collaboration by exploring teamwork and shared decision-making by working in pairs to create a design using paint-covered string, and reflecting on how to effectively work with others to achieve a common goal.
Fun with Character: Think
A classroom activity to help understand Cautiousness by exploring the impact of our words on others by creating a THINK poster using a hand-tracing technique, and reflecting on how to be truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind before speaking.
Fun with Character: You Decide
A classroom activity to help understand Decisiveness by exploring peer pressure and decision-making by comparing private hand-raising to public movement in the classroom, and reflecting on how others' opinions influence our choices.
Fun with Character: Safety Rocks!
A classroom activity to help understand Cautiousness by exploring safety and security precautions in the workplace, by interviewing parents about their job site requirements, and reflecting on how family rules similarly protect us.
Fun with Character: The Oranges
A classroom activity to help understand Authenticity by exploring the difference between outward appearance and inner reality by squeezing an orange to see if the juice matches the fruit, and reflecting on the importance of acting with sincerity.
Fun with Character: What’s In Your Wallet?
A classroom activity to help understand Authenticity by exploring personal goals and hidden potential by identifying individual talents to "put in a wallet", and reflecting on the steps needed to develop those skills.
Fun with Character: Be All That You Can Be
A classroom activity to help understand Authenticity by exploring sincerity and personal growth by analyzing the "Be All That You Can Be" slogan and the word ARMY, and reflecting on how to eliminate insincere behaviors.
Connecting Patience to the History Curriculum
Use journey of Christopher Columbus from your History curriculum to teach Patience.
Connecting Responsibility to the Science Curriculum
Use research experiments from your Science curriculum to teach Responsibility
Connecting Kindness to the Science Curriculum
Use sensation of touch from your Science curriculum to teach Kindness.
Fun with Character: Mix It Up At Lunch
A classroom activity to help understand Acceptance by exploring how to cross social boundaries and meet new people by randomly assigning new seats in the cafeteria, and reflecting on how to build a more inclusive school community.
Fun with Character: Outburst
A classroom activity to help understand Acceptance by exploring how collective brainstorming reveals unique perspectives by competing in teams to match category lists, and reflecting on how valuing different ideas leads to better group results.
Fun with Character: Make It Rain
A classroom activity to help understand Acceptance by exploring how individual actions contribute to a group effort by creating the sound of a rainstorm using only hand gestures, and reflecting on how everyone's unique participation is accepted and valued.
Praying For Christlike Character: Confidence
Christian prayers to help us build Confidence.
Praying For Christlike Character: Compassion
Christian prayers to help us build Compassion .
Praying For Christlike Character: Collaboration
Christian prayers to help us build Collaboration.
Praying For Christlike Character: Cautiousness
Christian prayers to help us build Cautiousness.
Praying For Christlike Character: Authenticity
Christian prayers to help us build Authenticity.