8th Grade Safety

Students act out skits showing typical conflicts that arise in school and then resolve them using a problem-solving…

Acting Out Conflict

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Safety

Social Skills

Health and Safety

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TEACHING RESOURCE

Aspects of Personal Safety

This handout aligns with Security Is... lesson plan.

Subjects:

Safety

Law

Health and Safety

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Activity: Bacteria and Food Poisoning

Students will use reference materials to answer questions about bacteria and food poisoning in this life science…

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Germs, Viruses, Bacteria (Microbiology)

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This handout is for use in the There Are Many Ways to Resolve Conflicts lesson plan.

Identify the Resolution

Subjects

Social Skills

Social and Emotional Development

Health and Safety

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Write a story of survival based on a prompt.

Story Starters: Survival

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Health and Safety

Life Skills

Safety

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In this conflict-resolution lesson, students discuss the use of violence, the reasons people fight, and the consequences…

What About Fighting?

Subjects

Social Skills

Social and Emotional Development

Health and Safety

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What's So Bad or Good About Conflict?

Students discuss the meaning of the word "conflict" and give examples of positive and negative situations they have…

Subjects

Safety

Social Skills

Health and Safety

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Unwind Reading Group Guide

Use the materials in this literature guide to supplement Unwind, a book about a futuristic world in which parents are…

Subjects:

Literature

Banned Books and Censorship

Reading and Literature

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The Rights of Bike Riders

Students will write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in reaction to the bicycle helmet safety issue. This is an…

Subjects

U.S. Government

Safety

Government and Civics

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Animal Survival Instincts

Students read the animal facts on survival instincts and match the behaviors with the animals.

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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ASSESSMENT

The Rights of Bike Riders - Rubric

Students will write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in reaction to the bicycle helmet safety issue. Letters will…

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Letters, Journals and Diaries

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another school shooting to talk with kids about

TEACHING RESOURCE

Talking to Children About Violence

Share an article from the Educators for Social Responsibility that details discussing violence and other sensitive and…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Safety

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Bacteria That Cause Food-borne Illness

Read this article to learn about food-borne illness and nine prominent bacteria that can cause them.

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Germs, Viruses, Bacteria (Microbiology)

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Test your students' knowledge of weather-related vocabulary with this word list.

Weather Terms

Subjects:

Vocabulary

Science

Earth Science

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Attributes of Sixth Graders

A list of attributes seen in many sixth graders.

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Physical Development & Growth

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The normal feelings and behaviors for each stage of adolescence --early, middle and late--are described in this article…

Adolescent Development

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Physical Development & Growth

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Learn all of the words that end in -ate that can help students resolve their conflicts.

Resolution Vocabulary

Subjects:

Vocabulary

Safety

Social Skills

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A list of animals and the diseases they may carry.

Disease-Carrying Animals

Subjects:

Animals (Zoology)

Safety

Biology

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Drug Use by Americans, 12 Years and Older

A chart showing drug use by Americans, 12 years and older.

Subjects:

Substance Abuse Prevention

Nutrition

Health

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Students use what they know about the Arctic along with reference materials to fill out an Arctic region knowledge chart…

The Arctic

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Safety

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Silent to the Bone Reader's Guide

After reading Silent to the Bone, use the discussion topics in this reader's guide to explore the book's characters and…

Subjects:

Literature

Reading and Literature

Detective and Mysteries

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Fight Bullying With Books!: A Guide for Teachers, Librarians, Parents and Caregivers

Start a dialogue about bullying by having an entire class or school read one of the books featured in this guide.…

Subjects:

Reading and Literature

Fiction

Safety

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