The Gorp's Gift: Gun Safety Resources for Teachers

Boy reading in library  The Gorp's Gift was written to act as a tool for teachers to sensitively and gently open a dialog on gun accident prevention for younger children. It aims to empower children so they will know what to do, and what not to do if they encounter one of the 235 million guns that now exist in the United States.

The following exercises are activities for before and after you read The Gorp's Gift.

These discussion questions about The Gorp's Gift are organized according to Bloom's Taxonomy of questioning.

These activities are designed to help your reading of The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and accident prevention.

Put Gorp's story back in order. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and accident prevention.

Explain what it means to be a peacemaker. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and accident prevention.

Students answer what they would do if they found a gun. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and accident prevention.

Discover a letter that can be sent home to parents explaining the Gorp's curriculum and message. This great school safety resource focuses on the danger of guns.

Students pretend to be the town's mayor, listing ways they would promote non-violence. For use with The Gorp's Gift, a story about gun safety and accident prevention.


Free 7-Day Trial for TeacherVision®

Sign up for a free trial and get access to our huge library of teaching materials!
Start Trial

Highlights

November Events

Find educational resources for every day in November. Fill your November lessons with activities for Thanksgiving (Nov. 27).

Math Printables

Browse our most popular math resources in our Printable Rulers & Protractors Slideshow and Number Lines & Place-Value Charts Slideshow.

New Resources

Not only have we added new printable books for Maps & Activities and The Human Body, but we've also focused on new classroom management resources. Try our Homework Excuse Form, Quieting the Class Quickly, Handling Misbehavior During Instruction, and Checking Student Progress in Homework. Take a look at all the new pages added to TeacherVision.

Walden Forums

Wondering about online education at Walden? Get answers to your questions, meet faculty, and learn what it's like to be a Walden student. Click here to check out our free Walden Forums!

2009 Educators' Calendar

There's something worth celebrating every day! Find fun and educationally relevant holidays, events, and celebrations for each day of the year.

Printable Maps

Enrich your lessons with our collection of printable world maps depicting continents, countries, capitals, political boundaries, lines of longitude and latitude, climate zones, oceans, land forms, and more. Plus, browse our collection of Unites States maps.

Daily Printables

Add a TeacherVision widget to your blog, personalized homepage (such as iGoogle or Pageflakes), or social networking sites (such as Facebook). Our widgets feature a different fifth-grade language arts printable or fourth-grade math printable for each day of the year.

Discussion Guide: The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World

The teacher's guide for The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World, from Penguin Young Readers, is filled with discussion questions, research assignments, and writing activities to engage your students in early American history. Enjoy this book with your students around Thanksgiving or when introducing them to the Colonial Period and Native American History.