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Trustworthiness (writing
activity)-A short story printed from the Collab-write website,
with 2 examples of good trustworthiness and 2 examples of bad
trustworthiness.
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Respect (Reading activity)- Students
are to write 5 Sentences about
respect, critical thinking, problem solving. Compare/contrast
practice.(See evaluation)
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Responsibility (math activity)-A
job for them to do! They Play a math game, rate it 1-5 and state why
in their oral presentation. Oral presentation occurs after they
Investigate the homework site. They will perform a 1-2
minute oral presentation to the class on 2 areas they found were
helpful and that kids should know about.
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Citizenship (social
studies/geography activity)-Students play a game and then
investigate a "Peacecorps" project country. They create a
poster using a rubric found on the evaluation map page. They
then internalize the "peacecorps" philosophy by looking at
their community (child) problems. They will then get in groups
of 5 and brainstorm on how to help children in their community.
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Fairness-(science activity) Students
read about a scientist hero and write about prejudices that faced her
(using evaluation map questions). They then do a "Google"
search on the word "prejudice" and then write a short paper
about a site they found with the title being "Fairness is not
found here."
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Caring (Career search, critical
thinking) -Students check out "caring" careers in
service fields. They choose a caring profession to investigate
and email the teacher with answers to the questions found on the
evaluation site. The second part of this search for Caring is to
click on to the "Dealing with Feelings" tab and click on
information about School Violence and what it means to you.
Students then get in groups of 2-3. They will brainstorm 10 ideas to
stop school violence and present them to the class. The teacher
will compile all student brainstorm lists and the class will choose at
least two things to start doing together to end school violence.
