Affective
Education Lesson Plans and Resources
Building Classroom
Community, Social Skills, Friendship, Kindness, Self-Esteem,
Feelings, Values, and Bullying Prevention
This page consists of links
to lesson plans and resources for the affective domain
including building community, social skills, friendship,
kindness, self-esteem, feelings/emotions, values/character
education, and bullying prevention. Click
on a topic in the index below or scroll down the page to find
the resources you need. All links on this
page were updated 8-16-09.
Site Index:
Affective Dimensions,
Building a School/Classroom Community,
Social Skills,
Friendship,
Kindness,
Self-Esteem,
Feelings/Emotions,
Values/Character Education,
Bullying Prevention
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Affective
Dimensions Overview
The Affective System
An
overview from Educational Psychology Interactive.
Affective
Dimensions of Learning
Another
overview, this one from NCREL.
The Learning Domains of Bloom's Taxonomy
Information
and levels for all three domains. See also
Taxonomy
of the Affective Domain.
Affective Objectives
Suggested
verbs to use when writing affective educational
objectives.
The Affective
Domain and the Writing Process: Working Definitions
An
article providing definitions of terms related to the
affective domain.
Building
Community Lesson Plans
Youth
Frontiers
The
premier provider of character-based school retreat
programs designed to change the climate of schools by building
school community. I have had the privilege of doing program
evaluations for them, so I know how
effective their programs are. Look over their web site and
consider contacting them about conducting a retreat for your
school.
Creating
Class Rules: A Beginning to Building Community
A
shared writing activity designed to help establish
a foundation for ongoing community-building.
Community
Building Activities/Energizers
A unit
for grades 3-6.
Building
a Community
A 1st
or 2nd-grade lesson plan designed to help build a strong
sense of classroom community.
Building
Our Classroom Community
A lesson
plan for grades 3-4.
Building
a Classroom Community and Bully-free Zone
A lesson
plan for grades 3-7 from PBS.
Unit Plan for
Learning Together in a Classroom Community
A 10-lesson
kindergarten unit. This link takes you to theindex. The
unit is in MS Word format.
Coming Together
A 3rd-grade
movement activity about developing community.
Program
Goal V: Learning Environment
Part
of the
CSB/SJU Education Department's
Knowledge
Base for Teacher Education,
this
document provides a brief overview of recent research
on schools as communities of learning.
Social Skills Lesson Plans
FACS:
Social Skills
A lesson
plan in which students learn to identify unacceptable
social behaviors and replace them with acceptable ones.
Social Skills Middle School
Students
A large number of brief lesson plans.
Getting Along with Others
A lesson plan
for grades K-5. See also
Listening to Others
and Prejudice and
Respect.
Let's Get Along
A lesson plan for grades 3-8 from Education World. See also
Let's get
Along for a thematic unit.
Pretzels
A weekly
activity in which students exchange compliments and
criticism. It was created to develop stronger social
skills in a 1st-grade class.
Teaching Social
Skills
An article describing a 6-step approach to teaching social
skills.
The Walker Social
Skills Curriculum
An activity for grades five and up.
Friendship Lesson
Plans
Friendship Theme
Lesson plans, units, worksheets, etc. from A to Z Teacher
Stuff.
Art Activities
and Lesson Plans for Exploring Friendship
A long list.
Friendship
A Kindergarten
lesson plan using the Eric Carle's Do You Want
to Be My Friend?
Friendship
A kindergarten
unit in MS Word format from the Core Curriculum for
Michigan Schools. This link takes you to the index page.
Friendship
Flowers
A 1st-grade
lesson plan that is part of a unit on families and
friends.
Cliques, Friendships, Groups,
or Boxes
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 that
helps students
explore the social "boxes" that they place themselves
in or are put in by others, and focus on how they judge
one another. See also
Cliques; Behind
the Labels
for an online
activity.
An Integrated
Unit on Friendship Implementing Asian-American
Children's Literature
A unit integrating Asian-American children's literature and
the theme of friendship.
Kindness Lesson Plans
The
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
More than 30
lesson plans in pdf format for a variety of grade levels.
Art Activities
and Lesson Plans for Exploring Kindness
About 25 activities.
Day of Kindness Lesson
Plans and Worksheets
An anti-bullying
lesson for elementary students. See also similar lesson
plans for
middle school
(Anti-Bullying)
and
high school
(Responding to
Violence: Keeping the Peace).
Living the Dream: 100
Acts of Kindness
A K-2 lesson
plan in which students participate in Dr. Martin Luther
King’s dream by doing 100 acts of kindness.
You are Invited!!!
Ideas for International
Acts of Kindness Day (September 25).
Be Kind
An primary-grade
lesson plan featuring Clifford (the Big Red Dog).
See the related printable
K is for Kind.
Light (Stories of
Kindness)
Activities related
to the above titled collection of short stories of
kindness from various cultures.
Self-Esteem
Lesson Plans
Self-Esteem Theme Page
Links to many lesson plans for a variety of grade
levels.
Ten Activities to Improve
Students' Self-Concepts
From Education World.
Self-Esteem/Class
Pride
A lesson plan
for grades 3-5 from Education World.
The Fuzzy-Feeling Chair
An elementary-grade lesson plan
designed to build students' self-esteem by having their
peers recognize and comment on their positive traits.
Art Activities for
Exploring Self-Esteem
A long list.
Building Self-Esteem
A lesson plan for
grades 6-8 from the Discovery School.
It's a Small World After All
A 3rd-grade lesson
plan designed to build self-esteem and introduce children
to other cultures.
Positive Images: Happy
to Be Me
A kindergarten lesson
plan using children's literature.
Girls, Role Models,
and Self-Esteem
An article for Lesson
Tutor.
Feelings/Emotions Lesson
Plans
Feelings
A preschool lesson
plan in which students make paper
plate faces with different feelings on them, such as happy,
sad, mad.
Exploring Feelings
A lesson for grades
3-5 learn about feelings from Dr. Seuss'
My Many Colored Days
and by listening to
the differences between major and minor keys.
Feelings
(happy, sad, silly, angry, scared)
A primary-grade lesson plan.
Teaching Guide: Dealing
with Feelings
Discussion questions, group activities, and writing assignments from
GoodCharacter.com.
Brain-Based Learning and
Feelings
A KWL lesson that could
be adapted to many grade levels.
Managing Anger
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Anger
A pre-k to 2nd-grade lesson
plan uses the book, When Sofia Gets Angry - Really-Really Angry.
Fun with Feelings
A lesson plan for grades
K-2 that helps students learn a bout the
way we perceive our own attitude and disposition.
Emotion Walk
A movement lesson plan adaptable
to a variety of grade levels.
Striking Out Stress: A "Gallery
Walk" Activity
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from
education World in which students learn about stress and
how to cope with its effects.
Unexpressed Emotions
A lesson plan in which students learn about the need to and
ways of expressing emotions.
Emotion in Art and Poetry
A multidisciplinary lesson plan for elementary and middle school.
Seeing Feelings
An art lesson plan using
Van Gogh's The Old Mill.
Values/Character Education
Character Education
Links to many lesson plans and
resources from A to Z Teacher Stuff.
Character
Education Informational Handbook and Guide
Information and several short
lesson plans from the North Carolina
Public Schools.
Youth Frontiers
The premier provider of character-based school retreat
programs designed to change the climate of schools by building
school community. I have had the privilege of doing program
evaluation work for YF, so I know how
effective their programs are. Look over their web site and
consider contacting them about conducting a retreat for your
school.
Honesty
A literature-based lesson plan for grades 1-2. See also
Character and Citizenship Education
for another primary-grade lesson plan
GoodCharacter.com
Character education teaching guides with discussion questions,
writing assignments, and student activities
for all grade levels plus a number of other
resources for teachers. See also
Live Wire
Media
for a nice selection of character education
videos.
Peace and Aggression: A Challenge of
Our Time
An interesting unit examining the morality of war and dissent
within the historical context of the Vietnam
war.
Non-Violent Protest Through The Ages
A middle school unit examining non-violence and exploring the
ideas and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Henry David Thoreau, and Mohandas
Karamch and Gandhi.
Challenge Your
Students with the Daily Dilemma
Discussion
starters from GoodCharacter.com.
The Mystery of the Undiscovered Values
A 5th-grade unit which seeks to foster the development of values
and personal integrity through the study of mystery
and detective fiction.
Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates
and the Law
A lesson plan for grades 8-12 analyzing the relationship between
individual rights and the rule of law in
contemporary society through the study of Socrates
and the arguments he presents in the
Crito.
It is part of
EDSITEment,
a program of The National Endowment for
the Humanities.
Bullying Prevention
Bullying
From the Youth Violence Prevention
resource Center, this site provides many resources related to bullying.
Stop Bullying Now
Another good resource for information on bullying prevention.
New
Ways to Stop Bullying
An excellent article from APA
Online Monitor on Psychology.
Do Something about... School Violence Unit
A 10-day high school unit.
Contract on Bullying
A mini-unit on identifying and preventing bullying for 6th
and 7th-graders.
Kids Bullying Kids
A lesson plan for grades 3-9
from Education World in which students anonymously complete
a
survey
about their experiences with
bullying.
Bullying Reality Quiz
Another lesson plan from Education
World, this one for grades 6-12.
A Bad Case of Bullying: Using Literature
Response Groups with Students
A Read/Write/Think lesson plan
for grades 3-5 using the book, A Bad Case of Stripes
by David Shannon.
The
Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel
A lesson plan for grades 3-5
using the book by the above title. Bullying is
one theme of the book and lesson plan.