2. March Schedule DateWoWLesson March 1CooperationRead Across America Week March 8FairnessExceptional Children’s Week/Fitting in March 15CheerfulnessTeen Tech Week/Net Cetera and Online Safety March 22MotivationButterfly Project March 29DeterminationHuman Knot

3. TOLERANCE Word of the Month TOLERANCE means respecting the individual differences, views, and beliefs of other people. 3/1 Slide 1 of 3

4. TOLERANCE 3/1 Word of the Week Cooperation means working together for a common purpose. Slide 2 of 3

5. Read Across America Day!  Dr. Seuss’s contributions to children’s literature are immense.  Today we celebrate his contribution to children’s literacy  Read a work by Dr. Seuss and discuss the social implication/lesson her presents in that work 3/1 Slide 3 of 3

6. TOLERANCE 3/8 Word of the Week Fairness means equal treatment of behavior and viewpoints of others. Slide 1 of 2

7. Exceptional Children’s Week: Fitting In  Ask: Why do people treat those who are different unkindly?  Show this clip (1.5 minute)this clip  Ask: Have people ever looked down on you because of how you looked or acted?  Have you ever treated someone unkindly because of how they looked or acted?  You see someone you don’t know being picked on by three people who are bigger and stronger than you are. What do you do? 3/8 Slide 2 of 2

8. COMMITMENT Word of the Month COMMITMENT is the obligation or pledge to carry out some action or to support some policy or person. 3/15 Slide 1 of 5

9. COMMITMENT 3/15 Word of the Week Cheerfulness means being in pleasant spirits. Slide 2 of 5

10. Online Safety – Teen Tech Week  Commit yourself and others to safety, observe online safety and “netiquette” 3/15 Slide 3 of 5

11. The survey says: Youth Internet Safety Survey (2005)  91% of youths had home Internet access  49% used Internet 5 days a week  34% used Internet to email, chat, IM people they DID NOT KNOW in person  30% visited online chat rooms  34% claimed they were unwillingly exposed to sexual material on Internet  9% claimed to have been harassed online  28% claimed they made rude or nasty comments about others online 3/15 Slide 4 of 5

12. BrainPOP  View the Online Safety BrainPOP movie, click here (4 min 45 sec.)click here  Complete the BrainPOP Activity, “Safe/Not Safe” for Online Safety movie as a class  Complete the BrainPOP Quiz as a class  Distribute Net Cetera booklet and bookmark to take home and discuss with parents. 3/15 Slide 5 of 5

13. COMMITMENT 3/22 Word of the Week Motivation means the desire to move towards a goal. Slide 1 of 3

14. Butterfly Project The Butterfly The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing against a white stone.... Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921. Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitz on Sept. 29, 1944. Such, such a yellow Is carried lightly ’way up high. It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye. For seven weeks I’ve lived in here, Penned up inside this ghetto. But I have found what I love here. The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut branches in the court. Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto. 3/22 Slide 2 of 3

15. The Explanation  1.5 million innocent children perished in the Holocaust  In an effort to remember them, Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies.  The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2013, for all to remember. The Museum has already collected an estimated 400,000 butterflies.  Everyone will create a butterfly in the coming weeks and write a poem in memory of the innocent children.  Go to the media center website and click on the I Never Saw Another Butterfly book to see examples from other childrenthe media center website 3/22 Slide 3 of 3

16. COMMITMENT 3/29 Word of the Week Determination means the inner strength to pursue a goal or task; will power. Slide 1 of 2

17. Human Knot  GOAL  Work together to move toward a determined goal  CHALLENGE  Form groups of 4-6 students  Each group make a circle  Each person grabs hands with two different people across the circle  Each group must untangle itself WITHOUT letting go of any hands  REFLECT  How difficult/easy?  What strategies were tried? 3/29 Slide 2 of 2