Life Skills Lessons and Activities

Lessons and Resources

Grades

Description

A Place in the Middle

7-12

Curriculum Guide

Aloha Tree

4-6

Reinforcing daily acts of kindness

Are We Smiling Yet?

4-12

Genuine? Fake? Smiles cause…

Bowl of Light

4-12

Keeping your inner light shining bright

Collaborative Video Production

6-12

Communicate a message using video

Collecting Community Histories

4-12

Capturing Kupuna Wisdom and Community History

Common Ground

4-12

Exploring similarities & differences

Community Service

6-8

Learning by serving community

Crushed

4-12

How it looks & how it feels to be bullied

Culture Collage – Who We Are

6-8

Creating through collaboration

Growing Pono

4-6

Using Appreciative Inquiry to cause change

Guts on the Table

9-12

Sharing stories & building communities

Ha- Breath of Life

4-8

Learning the power of your breath

Halaʻea – A Greedy Chief

6-12

Learning about kuleana and community roles through story

Happy Birthday

6-12

Learn by watching & listening

Human Jan Ken Po

4-12

Having fun with communication

I Am Pono!

4-8

Facts and discussion prompts about bullying

I Belong – The 4 Bs

4-8

Group connections & how they feel

Lau + Lau

6-8

Learn & compare Hawaiian counting

Leading the Pack

7-12

School mascots & how we relate

Line UP

7-12

LGBT awareness and sensitivity

Lonoikamakahiki – My Totem

4-12

Makahiki games & leadership

My Community Lens

6-12

Capturing community images

My Mixed Plate

4-8

Exploring roots & preferences

Myth or Fact

7-12

LGBT awareness activity

Our Community Collage

6-12

Creating through collaboration

Perspectives

4-8

Understanding different points of view

Power of the Word

4-12

Learning about the power of words

Promoting Pono – Preventing Huhu (Anger)

4-6

Examining injustice to promote pono

Shaping Up

7-12

Hands on leadership and team building

Slam Poetry – I Got Issues

4-12

Hawai‘i Slam Poets personify issues impacting youth

Sticking Together

4-6

Learning to work together in unity

Story of My Name

3-8

Building connections

The Four Agreements

7-12

Helping others; helping yourself

The Golden Rule

6-12

A universal guide to living pono

Think Before You Act

8-12

Strategies for Kōnane and life

Thinking Vs Feeling

6-12

Head or gut? Which to listen to…

Truth, Justice, and the Pono Way

9-12

Living the Pono way

Two Wolves Inside

7-12

Struggling with Good vs Bad

Words To Live By

4-12

Word cards encouraging pono actions