Character Education

Prejudice and Intolerance Resources

A WebQuest About Prejudice
http://faculty.mansfield.edu/bbruckla/prejudice/prej/prej.html

Believing is Seeing
http://coe.sdsu.edu/schoolstories/seeing/enforcing.html

Maine Project Against Bullying
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/against/resources.html

Close the Book on Hate: 101 Ways to Combat Prejudice
http://www.adl.org/prejudice/default.asp

Not in Our Town
http://www.pbs.org/niot/

A Class Divided
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

Musicals for Children: Teaching Peace and Tolerance
http://www.orffmusic.com/

Teaching about Prejudice and Stereotypes Through Songs
http://www.gi.esu10.k12.ne.us/SDGI/Barr/CurriculumRelatedSites/SocialStudies/HolocaustActivities/Stereo,_Prejudice_through%20song
Holes WebQuest - Prejudice and Racism
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/ath/library/teachers/kubik/holes/task3.htm

Eliminating Stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims in America
http://library.eastside.org/islam/welcome.html

Lesson Planet - Discrimination Lesson Plans
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search/Health/Discrimination

Peace Corps - Understanding Prejudice
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/looking/lesson35.html

Courage

Kids with Courage @ Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0915793393/104-8130141-7339125?v=glance

The Colors of Courage
http://home.att.net/~RWfreebird/

NNCC Fear and Courage
http://www.nncc.org/Guidance/dc16_fear.courage.html

Teaching Guide: Courage for Grades 7 - 12
http://www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Courage.html

Courage Quotes
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_courage.html

Courage: Children in Crisis Stories
http://www.healingstory.org/crisis/crisis.html

We Remember Anne Frank - Stories in Courage
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/courage.htm

Helen Keller
http://www.afb.org/info_documents.asp?collectionid=1

Courage Lessons for Middle School
http://mis.spps.org/counselors/m_courage.html

Courageous Kids
http://zuzu.org/courage.html

West Paris Students on Courage
http://www.gray.sad17.k12.me.us/couragepub.htm

Courage: Websites for Teachers
http://web.utk.edu/~arox/teacherscourage.html

Courage: Websites for Students
http://web.utk.edu/~arox/kidscourage.html

Perseverance

Perseverance Stories
http://www.inspirationalstories.com/perseverance-1.html

Motivational and inspirational Quotes about Perseverance
http://www.motivational-inspirational-corner.com/getquote.html?categoryid=42

Positive Attitude Institute - Positive Quotes and Stories on Persistence
http://www.positiveinstitute.com/pqstories2.html

Perseverance Quotes
http://www.geocities.com/wowquotes2/preseqt.html

Perseverance: Web Sites for Students
http://web.utk.edu/~arox/kidsperserv.html

Evergreen Elementary - Perseverance - Character Trait of the Month
http://www.mead.k12.wa.us/EVER/Perseverance.htm

Perseverance at Maquoketa
http://www.maquoketa.k12.ia.us/Briggs/character/perseverance.html

Perseverance - Holes Webquest
http://www.plc.vic.edu.au/Library/holes/holesweb.htm

Art Activities and Lesson Plans for Exploring Perseverance
http://humanityquest.com/topic/art_activities/index.asp?theme1=perseverance

Education World: Beyond Columbus: Teaching the Lessons of 1492
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr167.shtml

How to Develop Perseverance
http://www.frostig.org/LDsuccess/guide/how_can/perseverance.html

Megaskills - Perseverance Activities
http://www.megaskillshsi.org/perseverance.htm

Where Did Columbus Discover - A Webquest
http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/Herpel/

Columbus Day at Kids Domain
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/columbusday.html

Discover Columbus!
http://www.geocities.com/ljacoby_2000/columbus.html

Blackwell's Best: Columbus Day
http://exit3.i-55.com/~vickib/columbus.html

Honesty

LGUSD Character Education - Honesty
http://www.lgusd.k12.ca.us/honesty.html

Living Values Education - Honesty
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/honesty_focus.htm

Honesty - SVUSD Character Education
http://www.svusd.k12.ca.us/resources/character/Honesty.htm

Character Education - Honesty - Grades 7 - 12
http://www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Honesty.html

Character Education: Honesty
http://www.maquoketa.k12.ia.us/Briggs/character/honesty.html

Responsibility

Goodcharacter.com - Responsibility (Elementary)
http://www.goodcharacter.com/YCC/BeingResponsible.html

Goodcharacter.com - Responsibility (K-12)
http://www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Responsibility.html

Parenting: Teaching Responsibility to Preteens, Teens
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:igMUWfT_GdIJ:www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1547G.pdf+teaching+ideas+responsibility&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Responsibility Quotations
http://www.dailycelebrations.com/responsibility.htm

Books Useful for Teaching Responsibility
http://www.monet.k12.ca.us/tuolumne/responsibility.htm

Fairness

Fairness Teaching Guide--Elementary School
http://www.goodcharacter.com/pp/fairness.html
Middle School
http://www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Fairness.html
High School
http://www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Fairness.html

Characterworks: Fairness for K-5th Grade Students
http://characterworks.com/elementarypages/fairness.html

Characterworks: Fairness for 6th - 12th Grade Students
http://characterworks.com/secondary.html#anchor444629

Fairness Theme in Books
http://collaboratory.nunet.net/nssd112/oakterrace/imc/Fairness.html

Fairness Lesson Standard
http://web.dps.k12.va.us/dps/CharEd/4EFairness.htm

Exercising Character: Fairness
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:hlz6NHXIuZUJ:www.charactercounts.org/pdf/Exercising-Character/Exer-Char_06-09-fairness.pdf+character+fairness&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8

Justice for Kids & Youth
http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/

Thoughts on Fairness
http://sierracanyon.com/school/character/fairness.htm

Respect

A Quest for Respect with the Grouchy Ladybug
http://www.yorkville.k12.il.us/webquests/webqfrey/webqsfrey.html

Welcome the Grouchy Ladybug
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/lit/ladybug.html

Helen's Character Education Internet Resources: Respect
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/hatkins/1Respect.html

All About Respect
http://allaboutrespect.net/

CES National Web: Tone of Decency & Respect
http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/query/q/918?x-r=runnew

Respect Teaching Guide
http://www.goodcharacter.com/pp/respect.html

Teaching Guide: Bullying
http://www.goodcharacter.com/GROARK/Bullying.html

Teaching Guide: Listening to Others
http://www.goodcharacter.com/GROARK/Listening.html

Education World: Special Theme: Bullying
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/bully_2000.shtml

Don't Laugh at Me Project
http://www.dontlaugh.org/curricula/

Humility

A Collection of Quotations on the Virtue of Humility
http://www.thevirtues.org/site/12-Humility.html

Humility - Values Education for Children
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/humility.htm

Humility - Ages 3 - 7
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/humility_ages3-7.htm

Humility - Ages 8 - 14
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/humility_ages8-14.htm

Humility - Young Adults
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/humility_young_adults.htm

Instilling Humility in Children
http://www.aish.com/family/mensch/Instilling_Humility_in_Children.asp

Compassion

Character Education - Caring
http://web.dps.k12.va.us/dps/CharEd/5ECaring.htm

Values: Compassion in Kids
http://islamic-world.net/mnoc/Kidindex.htm

Character Education - Compassion
http://www.lgusd.k12.ca.us/compassion.html
http://www.goodcharacter.com/Opportunities.html

Tips for Teaching Kids Compassion
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art9676.asp

Character Education Resources - Compassion Books
http://www.jlt.com/character_education.asp

Teaching Ideas: Compassion
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/nccep/lp/lp99v.html

Goodcharacter.com - Caring Ideas
http://www.goodcharacter.com/pp/caring.html

The Virtues - Quotations on Compassion
http://www.thevirtues.org/site/10-Compassion.html

Living Values - Love - Ages 3-7 Ideas
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/love_ages3-7.htm

Living Values - Love - Ages 4-14 Ideas
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/love_ages8-14.htm

Caring: Web Sites for Students
http://web.utk.edu/~arox/kidscaring.html

Caring: Web Sites for Teachers
http://web.utk.edu/~arox/teacherscaring.html

Compassion Activities
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/char_ed/pubs/icare/comp.html

Compassion Quotes
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_compassion.html

Androcles & the Lion
http://www.krackerjacktheatre.com/androcles.htm
http://www.sgbox.com/aesopfables17.html
http://www.yankeeweb.com/storytime/fables/androcles.html

Integrity

Leading Thoughts - Quotes on Integrity
http://www.leadershipnow.com/integrityquotes.html

Integrity - Middle School
http://www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Integrity.html

Doing the Right Thing
http://www.goodcharacter.com/YCC/DoingRight.html

Being Responsible for K - 5 @ A to Z Teacher Stuff
http://atozteacherstuff.com/go/jump2.cgi?ID=733

Helen's Index of Character Education Internet Resources - Integrity
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/hatkins/7Integri.html

Bullying

Stop Bullying Now! (Stan Davis)
http://www.stopbullyingnow.com/new%20research.htm

42eXplore - Bullying
http://www.42explore2.com/bully.htm

Maine Project Against Bullying Internet Resources
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/against/resources.html

Bullystoppers: How to defeat bullies . . .
http://bullystoppers.com/bulllying_help_for_students.htm

Bullying Resources on the Internet
http://www.santarosa.k12.fl.us/stuserv/Integrated_Services/Violence_Prevention/bullying.htm

Lewiston School Department: Safe Schools Resources
http://www.lewiston.k12.me.us/~resfored/initiat/safesch.htm

Bullying Resources
http://www.bullyonline.org/resources/

Bullying Resources for Kids
http://www.kidsturncentral.com/links/bullylinks.htm

Tolerance

Education World: Tolerance Lesson Plans
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson294.shtml

Living Values Education - Tolerance
http://www.livingvalues.net/values/tolerance_focus.htm

Tolerance Webquest
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/hlynch/ToleranceWebQuest/tolerancewebqst.htm

Teaching Tolerance through Arts & Activities
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HTZ/is_1_135/ai_112686924

Promoting Tolerance - Valuing Diversity
http://www.nksd.net/schools/dms/comaware/tolerance.html

Learning About Tolerance through Folktales
http://www.ccsd146.k12.il.us/technology/webquests/gorman/webquest_tolerance%203_28_03.html

Tolerance as Americans
http://cuip.net/~dsimeur/tolerance.htm