These guides are packed with discussion questions, writing assignments, and student activities that you can use to create your own lesson plans. Click on your grade level:

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Now available! New Six Pillars of Character Teaching Guides for Grades 4-8!

Is a form of project based learning in which academic goals are accomplished through community service. Service learning develops citizenship, responsibility, and many other positive character virtues, making it possibly the most powerful character education program you can implement. Here's how you can do it.

Coaches are among the most influential people in a young athlete's life. Kids learn more from their coaches about character than about athletic performance. Here are some tools to help you seize the character building potential of your sports program.

We become good people by doing good things (at least Aristotle thought so). Here you'll find lots of opportunities for your students to become involved in character building activities.

This section provides an A+ lineup of carefully selected web pages that contain practical, useful material for character educators. There is a lot in these pages that you can use as the basis for class discussions, writing assignments and student activities.

As young people enter the workforce they encounter a variety of ethical problems that require tough decisions. Here are some thorny scenarios for your students to wrestle with.

Facilitation techniques (including Socratic Method) for conducting lively, productive, meaningful discussions with your students.

Links to some very helpful places.