This document provides information on teaching character education and social emotional learning to middle school students. It discusses 10 brain foods, virtues like trustworthiness and fairness, and activities to teach emotional literacy. It emphasizes that emotional development drives learning and quotes experts on the importance of creating a caring curriculum. The document contains mixed content without a clear overall theme.

1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/
Teaching Character Education to
Middle Years Characters

2. The Top 10 Best Brain
Foods
Top 10 Brain Foods:
Blueberries (tapping on head)
Nuts nuts nuts (tapping on shoulders)
Fish (for the flesh)
Brocolli (in the belly)
Yogurt (for the waist)
Banana banana banana (rotating hips)
Olive oil (on your thighs)
Brown Bread (tapping the knees)
Spinach on the shin
Squishy tomatoes (with our feet)

4. “Kids don’t care how much
you know, until they know
how much you care”
***Charles Sposato

6. WHY?

10. WHY?

11. Tragedy in Taber
On April 20, 1999, two students went on
a deadly rampage at Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colo. One week later,
a similar attack struck a small town in
Alberta.
A 14-year-old boy opened fire with a
.22-calibre rifle.

15. Remember: TeRRiFiCC
COLOR SCHEME
Trustworthiness : blue
Think "true blue“
Respect : yellow/gold
Think The Golden Rule
Responsibility : green
Think being responsible
for a garden or
finances; or as in being
solid and reliable like an
oak
Fairness : orange
Think of dividing an
orange into equal
sections to share fairly
with friends
Caring : red
Think of a heart
Citizenship : purple
Think regal purple as
representing the state

16. Seven
Essential
Virtues

17. Brainstorm:
How could you teach the
Seven Essential Virtues
to middle school students?

18. Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom

19. Emotional Literacy
Let’s Play
• Emote
• Photo Journal
• Emotion Match
• Etch and Sketch
Emotion drives learning, not intellect
***Roland Barth

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22. Let’s Play:
But Out
Sticky
Fingers

23. Don’t Laugh at Me

24. Wise Words of the Week
"“The first stage of curriculum
development, is creating a curriculum
of care”
…Harold Brathwaite