This document outlines a school project to teach students to cultivate empathy and kindness toward others. The project involves students reading stories, watching videos, and participating in experiential activities about acceptance and treating others well regardless of differences. Students are then separated into groups based on interests to create final projects - such as writing, photos, presentations - demonstrating what they learned about acts of kindness. The projects are shared online for others to see.

1. Be kind
accept difference

2. Targets
The students learn:
• To cultivate intercultural attitude
• To build empathy
• To behave kindly to their schoolmates (learning
disabilities, immigrants, in general persons with different
thinking and social status)

3. Crosscurricularity
The following subjects are involved:
•Literature
•Languages
•Informatics
•Physical Education

4. The schedule of the project
The project is based on
1. empatico.org and particularly on the subject “This kind of
kid”. https://library.empatico.org/featured-activities/that-
kind-of-kid?lng=en
2. The video BE KIND by Pat Zietlow Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NUJ2JZz50
3. The red shining shoes
http://ebooks.edu.gr/ebooks/v/html/8547/2228/Keimena-
Neoellinikis-Logotechnias_A-Gymnasiou_html-
empl/index10_01.html

5. The following steps should be followed:
1. The students will watch the video BE KIND in the
informatics lab or in their home
2. They will read the narrative THE RED SHINING
SHOES in their home, along with a set of questions
that they help them to deepen in the story’s meaning
(flipped classroom)
3. The students will answer certain questions in the
plickers.com application, that refer to the story so
that there is a reassurance that everybody has read
and understands the plot.

6. 4. They discuss in the classroom with brainstorming
procedure the meaning of the story using as guide
the questions given to them
4. In the lesson of gymnastics the students will do the
following experiential activities:
• Consciousness corridor
• Fall and trust

7. Final products of the project
The students are seperated in groups according to their
interests:
1. The literacy group exercises creative writing and
presents the results in bookcreator
2. The visual group takes photos that show acts of kindness
and presents the results in a padlet
3. The tactile group experiences an hour without feet, or
hands, or eyes, or voice and writes down how they feel
and how others treat them, in prezi prezentation
4. The artistic group makes a poster that asks people to be
kind
All the above stuff is uploaded in the wiki of the project

8. The project follows PERMA model of well being
•Positive emotion
•Engagement
•Relationship
•Meaning
•Accomplishment

9. From the greek group(7th Gymnasium of Kavala):
•Theodorakoglou Meni
•Sotirelli Kalliopi
•Kilikian Panagiotis
•Iliopoulou Anthi
Kavala Greece