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Big Changes, Big Choices: RESPECTING OTHERS
From: BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES Video Series
-For grades 5-9
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!This program emphasizes that everyone is entitled to respect regardless of appearance, race, national origin, disability, social status, etc. It attempts to sensitize kids to the feelings of others, and develop in them a value for treating people respectfully.
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Big Changes, Big Choices: SAYING NO TO ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUGS
From: BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES Video Series
-For grades 5-9
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!This program presents and reinforces anti-drug attitudes and teaches practical techniques for saying “no” to our friends without appearing to be uncool. In addition to the specific matter of drug use, we examine the issue of peer pressure – both positive and negative – and figure out how to tell the difference. We consider why it’s important to resist negative peer pressure, and what that has to do with taking charge of our lives.
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Big Changes, Big Choices: SETTING & ACHIEVING GOALS
From: BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES Video Series
-For grades 5-9
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!This program shows kids the benefits of learning to set and achieve goals, and teaches them how to distinguish between actual goals and mere wishes. They also see how they can benefit from failure as well as success, and how setting and achieving goals of their own choice boosts their self- confidence, their self-esteem, and the control they have over their lives
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Big Changes, Big Choices: SPEAKING OF SEX
From: BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES Video Series
-For grades 5-9
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!This program gives young adolescents the message that abstinence from sexual activity is normal and desirable at their age. We consider the emotional dangers of sexual activity, the reasons why young people often turn to sex to compensate for other emotional needs, and the realities of unwanted pregnancy and teen parenthood, Also, we emphasize the health risks of sex due to AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Big Changes, Big Choices: THE THREE Rs OF GROWING UP
From: BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES Video Series
-For grades 5-9
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!This overview program gives young viewers a solid basis for choices and actions. The first R stands for taking responsibility; growing up is a process of taking increasing responsibility for our choices and actions. The second R is for doing the right thing, which almost always produces the best result and leaves us feeling good about ourselves. The third R is for respecting ourselves, which leads us to make better choices and care more about doing our best
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Big Changes, Big Choices: YOU and YOUR VALUES
From: BIG CHANGES, BIG CHOICES Video Series
-For grades 5-9
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Free online video streaming included!This program looks at the issue of identity and explores some of the major elements that go into forming our identities. We examine internal factors such as values and beliefs, and externals such as clothes, hairstyles, etc. We consider that all important adolescent issue of “fitting in,” what that means, what we have to do and/or sacrifice to fit in, and when it’s worth it and when it’s not.
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Blow-Ups and Rages: Learning to Manage Your Anger
-For Grades 7 & Up
-DVD + Printable Teaching GuideAnger is a natural response to many of life’s most troubling situations, but all too often explosions of teen anger can be harmful and hurtful. Hostility and anger can devastate a teen’s life, destroy relationships, cloud effective thinking, impact school performance, affect physical health and ruin future career plans.
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BROKEN LINES: A Story of Addiction
-For Grades 7 & Up
-DVD + Printable Teaching Guide
-Released in 2018Broken Lines is a true story of hope, transcendence, and ultimately victory over drug addiction. We are all familiar with tragic stories of those who have succumbed to drug overdose and abuse, but we are not so familiar with those who have survived and triumphed. Broken Lines shares…
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Buzz in a Bottle: The Dangers of Caffeine-Spiked Energy Drinks
-For Grades 7 & Up
-DVD + Printable Teaching GuideWith the lure of an over-the-counter jolt, kids are consuming more energy drinks than ever before and in many cases mixing them with alcohol. This program arms kids with the facts and gives a strong “no use” message with particular emphasis on the real health risks of too much caffeine and the grave danger of combining alcohol and caffeine-spiked drinks.
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Character Journal Interactive: CARING
From: Character Journal Interactive – Software Series
-For Grades 7-12
-Interactive Software for Windows
-Created in association with CHARACTER COUNTS!Caring is not just a way of feeling – it is a way of behaving. In this journal-based interactive CD-ROM students learn that we become caring people by doing caring things. It demonstrates the positive relationships we can develop when we respond unselfishly to the needs to others and treat people with kindness, concern, and generosity. In working with this CD ROM students are called upon to watch, listen, think, write, read, evaluate, analyze, and apply.
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