Communication

Classroom lessons to foster respect for diversity, a concrete way for schools to mark Respect for All Week.

Students interview and learn about one another.

Uses puppets to introduce young children to the concept of escalating and deescalating conflict.

An experienced classroom teacher offers two 10-minute activities she has found useful in building community in her classroom, particularly at the start of the school year.

Students work in small groups to create a group "machine."

Suggestions for guiding students through a class project on an issue they care about--including a student activity that shines a light on group process.

In these two fun classroom activities, students practice sending and receiving messages and consider what communication is.