8th Grade Health and Safety

Positive Classroom Behavior

A positive classroom begins with you Read ideas and find resources on establishing and maintaining acceptable behavior…

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Health and Safety

Social and Emotional Development

Social Skills

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Practicing Problem Solving Lesson

Help students solve word problems using a step-by-step process.

Subjects

Safety

Health and Safety

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Dealing with Technology in the Classroom

A primer on new technology that students may be introducing to the classroom to cheat, bully, or harm others. Find tips…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Bullying

Internet Safety

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Students act out skits showing typical conflicts that arise in school and then resolve them using a problem-solving…

Acting Out Conflict

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Safety

Social Skills

Health and Safety

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Socially Inappropriate Behaviors

Descriptions of socially inappropriate behaviors and suggestions on how to break their cycles.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Bullying

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Teach children about hunger and malnutrition through the vocabulary, research, and writing activities in this worksheet.…

Hunger and Malnutrition

Subjects:

Language Arts and Writing

Social Studies and History

Nutrition

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This handout is for use in the There Are Many Ways to Resolve Conflicts lesson plan.

Identify the Resolution

Subjects

Social Skills

Social and Emotional Development

Health and Safety

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Guide to Creating Opportunities for Appropriate Social Behavior in Students with ASD

A Guide to Creating Opportunities for Appropriate Social Behavior

Use the 100+ strategies, examples, and tips found in this resource to help create opportunities for appropriate social…

Subjects:

Social and Emotional Development

Mental Health

Health and Safety

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In this conflict-resolution lesson, students discuss the use of violence, the reasons people fight, and the consequences…

What About Fighting?

Subjects

Social Skills

Social and Emotional Development

Health and Safety

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ACTIVITIES

Tape Recorder Fight Role Play

The Acting Out Conflict lesson plan incorporates a role playing activity detailed in this script. Use this activity to…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Social and Emotional Development

Social Skills

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What's So Bad or Good About Conflict?

Students discuss the meaning of the word "conflict" and give examples of positive and negative situations they have…

Subjects

Safety

Social Skills

Health and Safety

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Unwind Reading Group Guide

Use the materials in this literature guide to supplement Unwind, a book about a futuristic world in which parents are…

Subjects:

Literature

Banned Books and Censorship

Reading and Literature

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5 Steps to Taming That Temper Student Worksheet

This colorful printable provides students with 5 strategies for self-regulation of anger and attendant behavior to use…

Subjects:

Life Skills

Social and Emotional Development

Health and Safety

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Animal Survival Instincts

Students read the animal facts on survival instincts and match the behaviors with the animals.

Subjects:

Safety

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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ACTIVITIES

Be a Peacemaker

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

Subjects:

The Gorp's Gift: Gun Safety Resources for Teachers

Books

Literature

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Touching Spirit Bear and Ghost of Spirit Bear Reading Guide

This reading guide includes questions for class discussion and extension activities for Touching Spirit Bear and Ghost…

Subjects:

Native-American History (American Indians)

American History/U.S. History

Social Studies and History

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another school shooting to talk with kids about

Talking to Children About Violence

Share an article from the Educators for Social Responsibility that details discussing violence and other sensitive and…

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

Safety

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REFERENCE

Resolution Vocabulary

Learn all of the words that end in -ate that can help students resolve their conflicts.

Subjects:

Vocabulary

Safety

Social Skills

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Controlling Disorganization

A list of specific organizing strategies for teachers and parents to help disorganized students.

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Life Skills

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REFERENCE

Drug Use by Americans, 12 Years and Older

A chart showing drug use by Americans, 12 years and older.

Subjects:

Substance Abuse Prevention

Nutrition

Health

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This handout aligns with the Security Is... lesson from the Educators for Social Responsibility.

Security Is... (Handout)

Subjects:

Health and Safety

Safety

Emergency Preparedness

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