Presents instructional activities for classroom teachers to use in educating students about democracy and offers a definition of democracy. Includes information on how to teach about democracy, democratic deliberation, the issues of fairness and justice, social responsibility, and the history of democracy...
build trust, and develop communication skills. Through these activities, kids learn to work together, share ideas, and cooperate as a team. The physical activity involved in obstacle courses also helps to develop strength, coordination, and motor skills. These activities also help to foster...
Use the “I can” cards to teach students what they “can” do when facing a challenge or making a mistake. Discuss the power of perseverance and the value of making mistakes in the learning process. Finally, have students set goals, develop strategies, and support each other in their ...
This continues to the last student, who must remember all of the names. For the sake of fairness, you should have the first few students go again, also having to recite the names of the entire class. 3Getting to Know You Venn Diagram Gather students into groups of three and hand them ...
Teach Your Students to Be Sun Savvy The summer sun offers teachers an important opportunity to talk about sun safety. Many Internet sites carry strong sun safety messages or offer teachers valuable lesson plans for teaching about the science of the sun. ...
The first step in training students to become successful responders is to make them aware of the value of providing effective feedback. It is considerably more important to teach kids how to reply to their classmates' writing. Here are some things teachers may do to help students with their ...
First Aid and Wilderness Medicine: Provide basic first aid training tailored to outdoor environments, including how to treat common injuries and illnesses in the wilderness. Signal for Help: Teach effective methods for signaling for help in an emergency, using visual signals, noise-making devices, ...
and I met a friend who learned to dance with a VR group and that offered to teach me the ropes. It’s like building another identity that I can really do whatever I want without worrying about what other people think of me—after all, it’s just VR. I can take off the headset and...
Honesty is defined as fairness and straightforwardness of conduct. Synonyms include sincerity, integrity and trustworthiness. They're all good qualities to find in a person and certainly worthwhile to learn. After all, honesty is the best policy, right? It's true. However, teaching that concept...
The AMA identifies the core values as honesty, responsibility, fairness, respect, transparency and citizenship. It's worth learning how the AMA explains how to achieve these ends. But in broad brushstrokes, it sets the stage for these values by defining them as: ...