• Strategies for Empowering Students
  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.

• Hero Quest
  This short activity encourages students to explore what qualities make a hero, using the six values of Character Education.

• My Hero
  My Hero illuminates the "unsung" heroes in the cities, towns, and countries where we live. Submit a description of your hero or browse other submissions. (Read about artists, explorers, scientists, teachers, and other inspirational people at this extensive Web site. If your hero is missing, create a Web page and submit it for inclusion.)

• Academy of Achievement
  The centerpiece of the site is the "Gallery of Achievement" which showcases the lives and achievements of legendary persons who have contributed to the development of the 21st century and who fascinate the public. The purpose to the exhibit is to show that these achievers were ordinary people that did extraordinary things, thereby inspiring others to greatness. The gallery features audio and video clips as well as written interviews with the subjects, biographies of their lives and profiles of their accomplishments. The achievers are categorized into several areas including the arts, public service, sports, business, and science and exploration.

• Crossroads of Character
  This is an interactive web page for kids to learn about what it is to have good character, where they are in their own personal development, and what they can do to better themselves and the world. There are five different sections: Know Thyself, The Hero Within, The Path You Take, What Can I Do? and Other Activities.

• Role Models on the Web
  The goal of this site is to showcase outstanding role models to help youths and young adults to pattern their lives.

• Salt Lake County Animal Services - Education Presentations
  Salt Lake County Animal Services provides presentations, free of charge, to k-12 schools and at community events. Presentations are tailored to the age level of the students, and the subject matter of the class, and deal directly with Character Education.

• Giraffe Project (Stick Your Neck Out)
  This site sells a curriculum in which students learn about everyday heroes, study the quality of heroes, and then implement a service-learning project so they, too, can be heroic.

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• Do You Want Better Grades?
  This site discusses setting goals, planning, taking notes, changing behavior and more.

• Get to Know Yourself!
  Self-esteem, personalities, intelligence, and health are the focus of this page.

• A World of Prevention
  This online directory contains a list of programs, research, references and resources dedicated to the prevention of youth problems and the promotion of nurturing children.

• Cultural/Social Diversity Appreciation and Understanding Activities
  Here are some class activities from the PBS Arthur: Teacher's Corner.

• Social and Emotional Development Activities
  More class activities from the PBS Arthur: Teacher's Corner.

• Character Education Materials
  Here is a list of organizations that provide character education materials.

• Character Education Resources
  This site contains a variety of classroom resources, such as discussion questions, writing assignments, and learning activities that were designed to support the In Search of Character video series. You may find some of these to be useful even if you aren't using the videos.

• A Guide to Moral Decision Making
  Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. suggests steps and questions one should go through when making important decisions.

• Community of Caring
  Community of Caring works to implement and encourage five values--caring, responsibility, respect, trust, and family--in our nation's schools.

• Character Education Partnership
  This is a national umbrella for all character education organizations. They have a collected information on educational and community programs designed to develop moral character and civic virtue.

• National Youth Leadership Council
  The National Youth Leadership Council's mission is to engage young people in their communities and schools through innovation in learning, service, leadership and public policy. Their web site provides more information on the organization as well as links to their publications, conferences, training, news and events.

• Educators for Social Responsibility
  Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) helps educators create safe, caring, respectful, and productive learning environments.

• Teen Court
  Teen Court is a process in which a jury of their peers sentences juvenile offenders to perform community service. It was established in Illinois, and now exists in over 400 communities. This website provides information that will help other communities establish teen courts; as well as provide resources and networking opportunities for existing teen courts.

• Character Counts
  This educational organization is working to strengthen the character of young people today with their Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.

• Tribes
  TRIBES is a program used schoolwide to promote inclusion and a positive learning environment. Teachers are trained in the theory, basic research and methodology for creating a community of learners. The TRIBES agreements serve as the foundational skills for working and learning together. Those agreements are: attentive listening, mutual respect, appreciation/no putdowns and the right to participate.

• I*EARN
  The International Education and Resource Network enables young people to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people.

• The Earth Day Project
  To celebrate Earth Day students decorate paper grocery bags with pro-environmental messages, and give them to stores to use to hold customers' groceries.

• iEarn Projects
  Check out this long list of student projects organized into these areas: Creative and Language Arts, Science, Environment, Math, and Social Studies. Participants may join existing structured online projects, or work with others internationally to create and facilitate their own projects.

• Nonprofit Prophets
  This is an interactive project that challenges groups of students to investigate a problem that they see in the world, and then create a World Wide Web Resource page on the Internet that teaches the world about the problem. Typically, students collaborate with local non-profit agencies that need a website.

• Rainforest Action Network
  Find out what you can do to help save the rainforest.

• National Service-Learning Cooperative Clearinghouse
  This site provides LOADS of information on service learning. It is organized into several searchable databases, as well information resource areas where you can request publications (newsletters, articles, etc.). It provides links to many other service sites on the web, as well as special sections for Learn and Serve America grantees, with a list of Learn and Serve state contacts and Learn and Serve programs.

• Do Something
  Do Something is a national non-profit organization that inspires young people to believe that change is possible, and trains, funds and mobilizes them to be leaders who measurably strengthen their communities. They offer $500 grants to youth under 30 to implement service projects in their communities. Stop by this site for a grant application and to find out more about the many other programs they sponsor.

• Kids Care Club
  The mission of this club is to develop the spirit of compassion and volunteerism in children. To that end, we provide children, families, schools and religious groups with meaningful opportunities to help others in their local and global communities.

• Youth Service America
  Enter your zip code to find volunteer opportunities in your community.

• Kids Care Project
  This project asks students to identify a community problem and develop an action plan, including persuasive letters to influential people, to help combat this problem. Suggested topics include neighborhood clean-ups, recycling, tree planting, etc.

• Corporation for National Service
  The Corporation for National Service is the private-public partnership which oversees such agencies as Learn and Serve America, Americorps, National Civilian Conservation Corps and SeniorCorps. You can find out about new funding initiatives, as well as locate general resources on service-learning here.

• Help the Homeless
  This site teaches kids who the homeless are and what they can do to help them.

• Explorers' Page
  This page has a lot of interesting things about recycling, plants and animals, air pollution, and other environmental concerns.

• Give Water a Hand
  Teachers can download curriculum guides that will help classes perform service-learning projects with a focus on improving local water quality.

• Make a Difference Day
  Make A Difference Day is a unique program that inspires and rewards volunteers. A national day of helping others -- a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors.

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