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.   

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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.

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.

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.