Discover how resolving conflicts can lead to a better outcome for both sides from the PBS KIDS series ARTHUR. Included are support materials for teachers. [11:26]

The complete AIM Buddy Project educator's guide to the social-emotional program complete with planning guides for the classroom.

Get an overview of the AIM Buddy Project from teachers who have used AIM in their classrooms. Learn about the program's background, benefits, and components, as well as the five AIM topics: empathy, forgiveness, generosity, honesty, and learning from others.

Young children experience a wide range of emotions that they might not be able to name yet. Help students explore emotions.

Explore the problems and tensions created by misunderstandings and the inability to listen to diverse points of view. [11:25]

Learn how the five AIM topics- empathy, forgiveness, generosity, honesty, and learning from others- are important to a child's social, emotional, and character development. [9:05]

A storybook about the bedtime routine of a young child. Includes audio readaloud feature in 17 additional languages, although text is in English.

Help your students think critically about the dynamic and changing nature of what it means to be a leader. Below you'll find resources that will assist and encourage your students to explore their value systems, promote positive leadership discussions around school, and embolden your students to think beyond the traditional notions of leadership. Bring these Leadership Principles into your classroom by sharing biographies of influential individuals around the world, watching speeches from world leaders, and discovering supplemental lesson materials to assess understanding and prompt classroom discussion.

The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally affirming, developmentally structured academic project. To support this learning, Boston Public Schools Library Services, through the Massachusetts Library System, offer students high-quality, licensed digital resources.

Conflicts are part of life. Children do not go through it without experiencing conflict, so it's only fair that they are taught how to cope with it. This site provides a 12-step kit and a checklist to review progress. Each step is thoroughly explained and the kit is an all-around important resource.

Student groups are given captioned photographs of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant facility and surrounding towns taken before and 28 years after the 1986 disaster. Based on the captions and clues in the images, they arrange them in sequential order. While viewing the completed sequence of images, students reflect on what it might have been like to be there, and ask themselves: what were people thinking, doing and saying at each point? This activity assists students in gaining an understanding of how devastating nuclear meltdowns can be, which underscores the importance of responsible engineering. It is recommended that this activity be conducted before the associated lesson, Nuclear Energy through a Virtual Field Trip.

Ask students to reflect on the meaning of empathy and kindness. In this daily news story, PBS NewsHour Extra looks at the impact and meaning of community service and why the winter break may be a more challenging time for students than many people may realize. We recommend reading this Teachers's Lounge piece, 'Opinion: Don't assume that every student had a fun or warm holiday break,' out loud first. [1:31]

Help early learners build healthy social and emotional skills with this special collection on promoting kindness, being just, and creating a caring classroom community! These activities, videos, tips, articles, and guides offer thoughtful ways to demonstrate and encourage kind and fair behavior in your classroom.

Anyone can be a hero! This dance sequence focuses on ways that students can be heroes in their communities. By recognizing that everyday actions like taking care of their health, and, in turn, the health of the people around them, can be heroic, students learn that they can make a big difference all on their own. The accompanying worksheet further encourages students to see themselves as heroes in their unique ways! "Be a Hero" activities encourage students to think about the impact of their actions and how to use their influence for good. How are you a hero to those around you? [4:39]

Certainly, children don't have to like everyone. No one does. But with the help of loving grownups in their lives, they can learn to be "neighborly" -- respectful, courteous, and kind. In this set of resources, we will use a video from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood to focus on how you can help children value and appreciate ways in which we are alike and ways in which we are different.

Just like Daniel Tiger and Miss Elaina, the children in your classroom are still learning how to be a friend, how to compromise, and how to work together to solve a problem. By seeing how Daniel Tiger and Miss Elaina work out their conflict, children are learning strategies that they can apply to their own friendships. And just as Fred Rogers shared with previous generations, Daniel Tiger shares the message that one of life's greatest joys is the comfortable give-and-take of a good friendship. It's a wonderful feeling not only to have a friend, but to know how to be a friend yourself. In this set of resources, we will focus on how you can help children work on expressing their feelings and ideas, listen to each other and work together to solve a problem or conflict. Watch the videos about Friendship and think about how you could use them as part of the classroom activity or throughout the year as children work on friendship skills.

There will be times in life when everyone needs to share. By having caring adults around who can help young children learn that sharing is one way to build friendships, children can learn that sharing with friends (who have become important to them) is more fun than keeping things just for themselves. In this set of resources, we will focus on how you can help children work on developing the social skill of sharing.

A song that celebrates the fact that there is nobody quite like you! Teach and remind kids that they are unique individuals. Includes links to a related article and activity. [0:59]

In this animation, a boy describes his evening routine, which includes helping his parents with chores. The video reinforces concepts related to the role of children in families. Included are links to extra resources and background information. [1:24]

Mr. Steve from PBS Kids and his special puppet friend, Silly Vanilly, visit the KET studio to sing the song "With a Friend." As the song says, it's fun to do things alone sometimes, but it's always more fun with a friend. Young students will enjoy learning about the benefits of friendship while singing along with Mr. Steve and Silly Vanilly. Includes links to background information and an activity. [3:12]