Urban Programs Resource Network

Links and Reviews for Character Education

The following 65 sites have linked to our Character Education website. Links to commercial products or enterprises do not constitute endorsement by University of Illinois Extension.


Google Web Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Educators/K_through_12/Teaching_Resources/

42 Explore
http://annettelamb.com/42explore/character.htm

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00067RJZQ/102-8981097-7645769?v=glance&url=puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Bedford County Department of Education
http://www.bedfordk12tn.com/4crread.htm

Bonner Center for Character Education
http://education.csufresno.edu/bonnercenter/Character%20Education%20Links/CEL_CER.html

Character Counts in Michigan
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/cyf/youth/charcoun.html

Clementon (NJ) School District
http://www.clementon.k12.nj.us/too/character.htm

Comsewogue Curriculum Resources
http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/curriculum/tolerance.htm
"Strategies for Empowering Students is a character education website which encourages respect for oneself and others"

Cybersleuth Kids
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Education/

Dixie School District - Educational Technology Bookmarks - Character Education - Bullying
http://dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us/dixieschool/edtech-bookmarks.html

Eatons Hill State School Library - Cause and Effect
http://eatohillss.eq.edu.au/Library/Teachers/tlstructure.htm

eBased Prevention
http://www.ebasedprevention.org/modules.asp?id=555&module=28

Education Atlas - K-12 Teaching Resources
http://www.educationatlas.com/k-12-teaching-resources.html

Education Development Center
http://www.literacymatters.org/lessons/textstructure.htm
"What and Why (Cause and Effect) The University of Illinois Extension offers a lesson for teachers to use with science and social studies. It begins by explaining real-life examples of cause and effect and transitions into science examples for the middle grades."

Education Development Center
http://www.literacymatters.org/content/text/cause.htm
"What and Why (Cause and Effect) The University of Illinois Extension offers a lesson for teachers to use with science and social studies. It begins by explaining real-life examples of cause and effect and transitions into science examples for the middle grades."

Education Place
http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/september/character_activities.html
"Talk with your students about the use of writing as a way of expressing one's feelings and emotions. Then read to the class a poem written by a fourth-grader. Have the students discuss the poem's message and then write their own poems."

Educational Psychology Interactive
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/materials/elecfile.html

El Paso Collaborative for Academic Excellence
http://jets.utep.edu/aoy/dchacon/teacher_resources.htm

Emints National Center (University of Missouri)
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000236.shtml
"This class activity has examples of cause and effect and then has students complete a graphic organizer. NOTE: The site has a link to a guestbook."

EQ Australia
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/eq/archive/summer2003/html/bits.shtml
"Strategies for Empowering Students: The University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service have a section of their service concerned with character education. The intention is to assist educators to provide character education and includes ‘Strategies for Empowering Students’, a series of 30 classroom activities designed for three age ranges."

eslflow
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-eslflow/describingpeoplelessonplans.html

eslflow webguide
http://www.eslflow.com/describingpeoplelessonplans.html

eslflow webguide
http://www.eslflow.com/debateanddiscussionlessons.html

Excite UK
http://www.excite.co.uk/directory/Reference/Education/Educators/K_through_12/Teaching_Resources
"Activities to challenge students' minds,empower their senses of well-being, and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals."

Georgia Department of Education
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/cluster.asp?mode=browse&intPathID=220
"A lengthy list of interdisciplinary lesson plans for teaching character as well as other objectives. Plans are organized by grade level. Designed by the University of Illinois Extension."

Google Directory
http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/K_through_12/Educators/Teaching_Resources/
"Activities to challenge students' minds,empower their senses of well-being, and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals."

Head Royce Lower School Library
http://headroyce.org/ls/lslibrary/pages/irasites.html

Houghton Mifflin - Education Place - Monthly Themes Character Building
http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/september/character.html

Housing Authority of Bowling Green
http://www.pampetty.com/habgweecan.htm

i Keep Bookmarks
http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/showall.asp?folder=364431

Illinois 4-H
http://www.4-h.uiuc.edu/projects/onlineref.html

Illinois Institute of Technology - SMART Program
http://www.iit.edu/~smart/omuejan/lesson1.htm
"These activities will challenge students' mind, empower their senses of well-being and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals."

Indiana University - Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/bibs/characte.html

Kennesaw Elementary School
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/chared.htm
"Teaching kids to care!"

Kingsford Elementary School
http://www.polk-fl.net/Kingsford/key_to_characters_compassion.htm

Knowledge.com
http://directory.knowledge.com/reference/education/k_through_12/educators/teaching_resources
"Activities to challenge students' minds,empower their senses of well-being, and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals."

Louisiana Department of Education
http://www.doe.state.la.us/lde/uploads/8663.pdf

Louisville High School
http://lou.ishareinfo.org/jstewart/index.cfm?act=Resources&bid=39&allID=1
"Character education sites on the world wide web."

May Whitney Elementary School
https://www.lz95.org/mw/faculty/CC/tips4teachers.htm
"These activities will challenge students' minds, empower their senses of well-being, and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals. The activities are divided into primary, intermediate, and upper-grade levels, each with appropriate developmental strategies."

McGraw-Hill Higher Education
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007249199x/student_view0/chapter12/taking_it_to_the_net.html

Meade School District
http://meade.k12.sd.us/May%20Newsletter%2006.pdf
"These activities will challenge students' minds, empower their senses of well-being, and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals. The activities are divided into primary, intermediate, and upper-grade levels, each with appropriate developmental strategies."

Midge Frazel's Home Page
http://www.midgefrazel.net/pda.html

MidgeFrazel.net
http://midgefrazel.net/character.html

Moon Area School District
http://www.masd.k12.pa.us/Contest_Entries/student2/masd/Curriculum/moon_area_cares_about_character.htm

Nassau BOCES - Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology
http://nassauboces.org/cit/CIT_Response/CIT%20RESPONSE%20FEB06.pdf

New Jersey - Department of Education - Grades 7 - 8
http://nj.gov/education/njpep/standards/revised_standards/pe_newstandards/StandardsResources/gr_7_8.html
"Many of these activities from the University of Illinois Extension are integrated with other content areas."

New Jersey Center for Character Education
http://www.edsolution.org/character_ed/demo/pilotview.cfm?view=4&district_id=3280&district=6

Phat Nav Web Directory
http://www.phatnav.com/directory/Reference/Education/Educators/K_through_12/Teaching_Resources/

portaportal.com
http://guest.portaportal.com/terryboyajian

Rothschild Learning Services
http://mdr3.home.mindspring.com/3rs_.htm

San Mateo - Foster City School District
http://www.smfc.k12.ca.us/btsa/text/teacher%20links.html
"The activities are divided into primary, intermediate, and upper-grade levels, each with appropriate developmental strategies. The purpose of each activity is to address the holistic approach to teaching. The focus concentrates on blending the affective, conative, and cognitive domains in an integrative and cohesive manner."

Santa Rosa (CA) City Schools
http://www.srcs.k12.ca.us/links.asp

School of Education, Southern Connecticut State University
http://www.southernct.edu/~ensign/mcsites.html

State of New Jersey - Department of Education - Grades 7 - 8 - Integrated Skills
http://nj.gov/education/njpep/standards/revised_standards/pe_newstandards/StandardsResources/gr_7_8.html

Teacher Curriculum Resources
http://www.sonic.net/~fraser/teachers%20resources.html
"From elementary to high school, here are lesson ideas to enliven your curriculum in almost all areas of study."

Teachers @ Work
http://teachers.work.co.nz/reviews/healthwellbeing.asp
"The growing importance of character education within the school curriculum is almost in keeping with the lack of resources available to teachers.  This is an excellent resource site dealing with developing knowledge and life skills enhancing ethical and responsible behaviour by our students. "

Teachers @ Work (New Zealand)
http://www.treadwell.co.nz/reviews/healthwellbeing.asp
"The growing importance of character education within the school curriculum is almost in keeping with the lack of resources available to teachers.  This is an excellent resource site dealing with developing knowledge, and life skills enhancing ethical and responsible behaviour by our students."

Texas Cooperative Extension
http://fcs.tamu.edu/tbc/Resources/charedlinks.htm
"A character education program offered through the Illinois Urban Extension Service  which has the goal of building strong youth and preventing drug and alcohol abuse  among its participants. In addition, this program seeks to increase youth involvement in their community and to create more adult-youth problem solving teams. "

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~b621749/res7hr1.html
"This is a great web site about character education as it includes lots of activities which challenge students’ minds, empower their senses of well-being, and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals. The activities are divided into primary, intermediate, and upper-grade levels, each with appropriate developmental strategies."

The Interactive Communications & Sumulations Group at The University of Michigan
sim.soe.umich.edu/poot/teaching_materials/unit_plan-eric_monroe.doc

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
http://www.stockton.edu/~wwwenvl/env_ed_links.htm

University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension - Thayer & Nuckolls Counties
http://thayer.unl.edu/4-H/home.htm

Utah Education Network
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=5399
"These activities will challenge students' minds, empower their senses of well-being, and rekindle their hearts with a commitment to values and beliefs essential to becoming and being whole individuals. The activities are divided into primary, intermediate, and upper-grade levels, each with appropriate developmental strategies."

Volunteer Now
http://www.volunteernow.ca/take_action/teacher_resource.htm

Web Institute for Teachers - Delta Homeroom - Site of the Day
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/2000/homerooms/delta/site.htm

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