I recently retired after thirty years of teaching at the elementary school level. Currently, I teach character education lessons on a volunteer basis and develop resources for people like you.
I recently retired after thirty years of teaching at the elementary school level. Currently, I teach character education lessons on a volunteer basis and develop resources for people like you.
The goal of this lesson is to help students understand the importance of courage and to make them aware of the many times they have already shown it in their lives. This resource consists of a 20 slide PowerPoint or Google Slides lesson, which seeks to engage and involve the students though questions and powerful images, and a two-sided worksheet which reviews the concepts presented and discussed.
Here is a more detailed outline of the resources:
PowerPoint Lesson:
Slide 1: The bear and courage.
Slides 2 - 3: What is courage?
Slides 4 - 6: Courage on display in adult roles.
Slide 7: Courage in you introduction.
Slides 8 - 15: Ways you have already shown courage.
Slides 16 - 17: Courage and confidence.
Slide 18: Courage quotes from Muhammad Ali, Taylor Swift, J.K. Rowling and Michael
Jordan
Slides 19-20: Using and building courage (summing up)
Review Worksheet:
Side 1: Defining courage, joining courage quotes, matching quotes, times you showed
courage
Side 2: Classifying behavior choices as brave or foolish and identifying your courage
goals
The presentation begins with questions and discussions designed to help students recognize which qualities, behaviours and attitudes cause us to respect or look up to certain people. The lesson then strives to encourage students to exhibit or develop these characteristics in themselves to acquire greater respect from others and to build stronger feelings of self-respect.
This resource includes a fifteen page Lego themed Building Respect Google Slides discussion and lesson, a two page student activity and a teacher's guide.