School Culture

Totally Us is a classroom activity developed from Totally Joe . Objectives Students will develop name biographies together in groups of four Students will see that ...

Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions. ...

Photocopy or create a large map of the school, including the school grounds and the cafeteria. Then have students identify places that cliques or self-segregating groups gather. ...

Collective poetry is an exercise designed to encourage students to work from a shared pattern in order to join their voices in a collective rhythm. We all have stories. In telling ...

Morning Meetings help students and teachers connect and start the day on a positive note. It's the start of the school day at Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Mass. ...

Teacher/musician uses music to help students deal with images of war. When the daily newspaper depicted gruesome violence with horrifying headlines about the war in Iraq, my thoughts ...

Teach students about the right to safety with a project based on the 1989 Charter of Children's Rights. It isn't very hard to get middle school students thinking about ...

Combat stereotypes by creatively combining science and social studies activities. As a teacher, I've watched too many children hit one another because they have to "kill ...

Teach inclusive, respectful behavior using storybooks lessons and art. The kindergarten students at Blakeburn Elementary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia, have definite opinions ...

Examine identity and assimilation with an activity that asks the essential question: Was there ever a part of your identity you had to hide? In the essay, "Magic Carpet", ...

Middle school students build their own Bill of Rights. Lesson Overview Team Harmony taught other students about the UN's Declaration on the Rights of a Child during ...

This activity invites students to identify aspects of culture that influence our own behavior and sometimes make it difficult to understand the behavior of other people. Culture is a complex idea, and teachers ...