How to Say “I’m Sorry” - A Comprehensive Middle School Resource
Transform the challenging task of teaching apology skills into an engaging learning experience with this detailed, ready-to-use workbook designed specifically for middle school students. This 16-page resource provides a structured approach to understanding, practicing, and mastering the art of genuine apologies.
What’s Included:
Complete student workbook with interactive exercises
Comprehensive teacher’s notes and implementation guide
Detailed assessment rubric
Bonus junior student handbook template
Digital vs. in-person apology scenarios
Role-playing activities and reflection exercises
Key Learning Outcomes:
Students will learn to:
Master the four essential components of a genuine apology
Distinguish between sincere and insincere apologies
Adapt apology approaches for different situations
Navigate both in-person and digital apologies
Develop emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills
Perfect For:
Advisory/homeroom periods
Social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum
Conflict resolution workshops
Character education programs
Counseling groups
Individual student guidance
Resource Features:
Age-appropriate scenarios and examples
Fill-in-the-blank practice exercises
Guided reflection questions
Extension activities for deeper learning
Flexible implementation options (20-30 minutes per section)
Clear assessment criteria
Grade Level:
Primarily designed for grades 6-8, with adaptable content for grades 5-9
Includes modified junior version template for younger students
Format:
PDF format (16 pages)
Print-ready with clear formatting
Easy-to-follow layout
Student-friendly design
Includes both student worksheets and teacher resources
This comprehensive resource not only teaches the mechanics of apologizing but helps students understand the importance of genuine remorse and making amends. Perfect for building a more empathetic and responsible school community.
Note to Teachers: This resource aligns with SEL competencies and can be easily integrated into your existing character education or advisory curriculum. The modular design allows for flexible implementation based on your classroom needs and time constraints.Last edited just now
If the thought of public speaking creates fear in many people, the impromptu speech can create a sense of terror.
But with this simple A3 pdf of actionable tips, there’s no need to feel so anxious.
Download and keep them handy next time your students need some strategies to tackle an impromptu speech.
Mastering Persuasive Speech Writing (and Delivery)
Transform your students into confident, articulate speakers with this persuasive speech writing unit. Designed specifically for grades 6-8, this ready-to-use package makes creating a persuasive speech engaging, structured, and achievable for every student.
Includes:
More than 20 pages of student worksheets
Clear, age-appropriate teaching objectives
Professional rubric for fair assessment
Step-by-step speechwriting guide
Student-friendly handouts and worksheets
Speech writing is an essential life skill.
Perfect for:
Language Arts Teachers
Speech and Debate Coaches
ELA Departments
Literacy Specialists
Student Leadership Advisors
Understanding note-taking strategies is important for further study and in working life.
These 23 pdf pages of activities show different ways of taking and recording notes.
It includes practice using the Cornell Method, Mind Mapping, the Charting Method, taking book notes, and using the SQ3R and Outline Method.
Each note-taking strategy can be used for different purposes.
You know that storytelling is an important skill every student must master.
It is an important skill for work and in life.
The best business leaders are great storytellers. The best community leaders are great storytellers.
To sell, to persuade, to influence, to show, to tell, to entertain - you need to tell a story.
Stories make an emotional connection.
But where do they come from? How do you structure a story? Is there a template? Or even some story starters that people use?
The Student’s Storyteller’s Activity Book answers all of these questions.
This pack of 24 pages of activities will guide students on how to find, create and deliver great stories to any audience.
Table of Contents
Finding Great Stories
Personal Stories
Deeper Personal Stories
Structuring Your Story
Structuring Your Story
Stories with Messages
The Story Spine
Stories with Character
Two Must-Have Stories
Delivery
Story Analysis
29 Storytelling Tips
Telling stories with a purpose is just about the most important skill an educational leader needs.
Stories create an emotional connection with the audience.
This activity book is for teachers or education leaders in any setting. It guides you through the steps to structure stories with a message.
The activity book also includes a bonus page of tips for teachers on how to improve their storytelling to kids.
If you have any aspirations to enhance your educational leadership aspirations then improving your storytelling skills will make a difference.
The 22 pages in this Activity Book will help you make that difference.
Six challenging activities for Middle School students to discover the reality of Chernobyl today.
Use the various tools available on Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth Pro to complete the tasks.
Instructions and examples are provided so all worksheets are self-guiding.
Table of contents include:
How Close Can You Get to the Nuclear Power Plant?
How Far Away from Other Places is Chernobyl?
Going Back in Time at Chernobyl
How Big is The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Sarcophagus?
What’s Left Behind in Abandoned Chernobyl and Surrounds?
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
10 simple actions that anyone can take to overcome the fear of public speaking.
Overcoming that fear helps people stand out at work, take charge at family events and be upfront at any school celebration.
Everyone will be thankful that it is you standing there speaking. Your life will be changed when you have the confidence to speak to any audience at any time.
Download this 38 page manual of tips, actions and templates that will help you speak with confidence.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this pack suits their needs. If it doesn’t, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
Fearless Public Speaking for Kids
More than 40 pages of essential information for Middle School students wanting to improve their public speaking skills.
From writing the speech to constructing a speech, and delivering a speech with fun, quotes and impact - it’s all here presented in a fun and inspirational way.
Learning how to speak in front of an audience is one of the most important skills that any student should leave school with, and this manual will help your students to practise the right things.
After all, public speaking is all about practice.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this pack suits their needs. If it doesn’t, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
This product consists of two A3 Information Sheets listing 35 Speechwriting techniques (including examples of each) that the professional speechwriter uses.
Download and print out the pdf’s and students can reference them when writing a speech.
Speechwriting and public speaking are important learning experiences in my language classes - hope you agree.
Students entering speaking competitions only need to included a few of these techniques and they will impress any judge.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
This Single A3 Info Sheet encourages the use of a Gratitude Journal
Includes:
purpose of a journal
some starting ideas
reasons for creating a #gratitudeattitude
keyword list that will help to start writing
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
This **Single A3 Info Sheet ** explains everything to do with the mapping coordinates system - Longitude & Latitude.
Includes:
explanation of the main Meridians and Latitudes
some historical info about the beginning of coordinate mapping
uses of mapping coordinates
illustration of the two main types of coordinate figures
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
Single A3 Info Sheet outlining the 12 main types of humor, with examples, illustrations and further leads to look up.
Use as an easy reference guide to prompt discussion around the types and differences between different comedy genres.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this pack suits their needs. If not, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
A single simple A3 Tip Sheet on how to deliver a remarkable speech.
Easy tips that anyone can use to improve their public speaking.
Includes such things as:
15 tips on giving a knockout speech to any audience
What to do if you are reading your speech
Explains the type of speeches typically delivered
Important feedback questions to ask
Motivation to get up on stage and do it - again and again
Printout this tip sheet and refer to it every time you or your students prepare to deliver a speech on any occasion to any audience.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
Single A3 pdf Tip Sheet for students to assist with their Speechwriting.
Includes:
13 tips when writing a speech
25 plus personal speechwriting ideas
The two main speech structures
Essential techniques that make speeches effective, with examples
The three main speech types
… all on a single page for easy reference
Simple single A3 information sheet that students reference to best use Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Earth Pro.
Each of these applications is free to use and easy to access from any device.
This info sheet explains the differences between the applications, shows how to access the various functions, and expands on all available menus.
Simple explanations that will enhance any Google Maps or Google Earth user.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
Explore each one of the New7Wonders with Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Street View and more.
I have created a Google Site for a better student experience with a separate page of learning activities for each of the New7Wonders.
The activities are unique and explorative. They will stimulate interest in a lot of areas that relate to these historical wonders of the world.
The download includes the link to the Google site and the answer sheet for each of the activities.
The New7Wonders include:
Petra
Taj Mahal
Machu Picchu
The Roman Colosseum
Chichen Itza
Christ the Redeemer Statue
The Great Wall of China
Activities include:
Creating timelines
Reviewing myths
Calculating map scales
Going on Google Earth Voyager trips
Finding hidden gems on Google Earth
Calculating distance on Google Maps
Exploring with Google Street View
And a bit of Latin learning
… and more
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
25 Plus pages of worksheets for students to practice these tips and then compile them all in to a speech for any purpose. Includes an answer key.
A good speech is like a good play, movie, or song. It is a form of entertainment. And like all entertainment, if it doesn’t entertain, then the feedback is immediate.
There are not many classes that teach students how to write a speech, however there are many occasions in later life when we need to give a speech.
These tips will help your students to develop an effective speech. The tips aren’t the normal ones (like, ‘make sure your speech has a beginning, a middle and an ending’). They are from many years of personal experience. I’ve written speeches for all occasions and a variety of professions.
Many Australians are unaware of the distinctive features of Aboriginal languages, how many were spoken in Australia at the time of the first arrival of overseas explorers and even what they sound and look like.
This curriculum of short simple lessons explore the principles of language, how sounds are created, and the key features of an indigenous language. The topic is a fascinating one and it is a series of lessons I have delivered to a variety of audiences - from secondary students to highly engaged corporate employees.
This program uses a particular language as a case study - a language spoken in the Pilbara region of the north-west of Western Australia. And the language features learnt here apply to many other indigenous languages throughout Australia. They are all related, but they are all so different.
By the end of the program you will:
have an understanding of the mechanics of articulating Indigenous letters of the alphabet
have built up a vocabulary of more than 100 Indigenous words from this language
learn how different the grammar rules can be(almost like Latin)
learn how culture and language are so intertwined
increase your understanding of an Australia Indigenous view of the world
The program won’t equip you to be a fluent speaker of the language, but you will be provided with a sound base of language knowledge that will give you the appreciation of some of the uniqueness of an Indigenous language still spoken in Australia.
This program is suitable for anybody wanting:
To improve their knowledge of the Australia Indigenous culture
To gain some linguistic exposure to Indigenous languages
To acquire knowledge of the mechanics of language
To develop a basis for further in-depth study of Australian Indigenous Language
There are 12 lessons in this course (5-15 minutes each), and the course also includes a free download of the dictionary from the languages used throughout the course, as well as a free copy of the scrapbook of photos taken from my time with this community.
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
Look for these spooky Abandoned locations on Google Maps and explore their wonder on Street View.
Quality worksheets that prompt the student to use the navigation tools on Google Maps and explore a bit closer to answer the questions. There are a whole lot of man-made structures out there that have been left to rot or are waiting for a new life. Students look closely at the remains and complete some exercises to reflect on their investigations.
8 Locations in all are identified, plus another dozen or so that students can search for in their own time.
Lonely fun park wiped out by Hurricane Katrina
Desolate industrial island
Massive empty car plant
Rusting and bogged locomotives from another era
Overgrown mill house in the middle of a busy town
… and more
Very original and includes an answer key.
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.