Character Education Lesson 4 of 10

Character Education Lesson 4 of 10

Grade Level:5 and 6

Subject: Show Kindness

Duration:Day 1: 30 minutes

                Day 2: 30 minutes

                Follow up discussion 3-5 days later: approximately 15-30 minutes

DOK Level: 4

SAMR Level: Redefinition

Indiana Standard:

Counseling Competencies: Social/Emotional Development

Competency 1: Students will acquire and further develop the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.

Competency 2: Students develop personal management and collaborative skills needed to become successful learners, responsible citizens, and productive workers.

Competency 3: Students will understand personal safety skills.

Objective:

1. Students will know what it means to be kind and how to show kindness.
2. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of how to show kindness by performing three random acts of kindness.
3. Students will participate in class discussions about kindness, possible random acts of kindness that they could perform, and the the three random acts of kindness that they performed and how they think it went.

Procedure:

1. Day 1: The teacher will share the Kindness Google document with the class. Students will view the videos and read the text contained in the document.
2. Day 2: The teacher will use the Kind Discussion & Activity document in order to hold a class discussion and complete the random act of kindness activity listed. The teacher will need to decide on a “due date” for the 3 random acts of kindness to be completed and also on the assignment that will follow (another class discussion and/or write a paragraph).

Product or Assessment: Day 1: none

                                            Day 2: class discussion and a “homework assignment” that requires  

                                            each student to perform 3 random acts of kindness

                                            3-5 days later:a follow up class discussion about what students        

                                            did for their random acts of kindness and how it went

Accommodations:

1. Some students may struggle to come up with what to do for their random acts of kindness. To help combat this, the teacher could assign them one act to perform at school,one act at home (an extra chore maybe), and one act of writing a note/card and sending it in the mail to someone.
2. The teacher could start a sign-up list for school employees. The teacher could allow students to sign up for one school employee, two, or three.
3. The teacher could ask some primary grade teachers for the names of students that could use a “pick me up”. Students could then decide what things could be done at school for them (eat lunch with them, play a game at recess, make a drawing, read to them or listen to them read).

Enrichment:

1. The class could challenge another class to do the same thing (each student perform 3 random acts of kindness). The challenge could keep going on and on.
2. The class could create a Google slide project containing a paragraph or a video about their favorite act of kindness. Each student would have one slide to complete.
3. The class could act out and take video of random acts of kindness. The teacher could come up with groups of kiddos to accomplish this. Students could film at home, at school, and in the community. The videos could be shared with the school community.