Description
Engage students with fun, Valentine's Day-themed activities that foster kindness and creativity. This resource includes writing, design, and critical thinking exercises perfect for boosting learning engagement.
This Valentine's Day, make kindness the magic ingredient in your classroom! The Kindness Love Project offers a resource-rich unit filled with fun and engaging activities designed to explore the power of love and kindness. Perfect for elementary and middle school students, these exercises will ignite their creativity and critical thinking skills while enhancing their writing and drawing abilities.
What's Included:
Inspiring Questions: Spark imagination with thought-provoking questions like "How can you spread love wherever you go?" and "How can you dream big?" Students will brainstorm innovative solutions, such as "Put love in an ice cream and share it," fostering creative problem-solving.
Design a Love-Spreading Machine: Challenge students to design a machine that spreads love. This activity encourages them to consider various aspects of design, including:
How will the machine spread love?
What kind of love will it spread?
What materials will be used?
What are the challenges and solutions in building such a machine?
Heart-Shaped Poetry: Students will express their understanding of kindness by creating heart-shaped poems. This activity combines creative writing with visual art, enhancing their artistic expression.
Kindness in Action: The project encourages students to consider practical ways to show kindness in their daily lives, connecting classroom learning to real-world applications.
Benefits:
Boosts Creativity: Engages students' imaginations and encourages innovative thinking.
Develops Critical Thinking: Promotes problem-solving and analytical skills.
Enhances Writing and Drawing Skills: Provides opportunities for creative expression through various media.
Fosters Kindness and Empathy: Instills the importance of kindness and compassion.
Perfect for Valentine's Day: A unique and engaging way to celebrate the holiday.
This engaging Kindness package contains:
1. Question cards + blank cards
2. Things I Love
3. Things other people/animals love
4. Where in your body do you feel. . .
5. How can you spread love?
6. How can you randomly spread love?
7. Heart-shaped poem
8. How can you build a machine that spreads love?
9. What if you could grow a loving heart?
10. Spread everyday kindness
11. Dream big
12. Big dream machine
13. Acrostic dream poem
14. What if you could. . .
15. Design a board game
Think Dive is built on a simple idea: a handful of curiosity + a bucket of imagination = learning that sticks. Every resource is designed to spark original thinking in young minds.
Format: PDF (US Letter size — A4 available upon request).
Questions or requests? Contact: maliasa@live.com
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Standards
- NGSS K-2-ETS1-1
- Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
Reviews
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November 22, 2019
Excellent activities for students! I love the design a game board challenge. Great way to keep learning fun.
Celeste H.
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November 22, 2019
What a beautiful resource! I love the pictures used and how thought provoking the tasks are. My kiddies are going to love it and I can't wait to use it. Thank you very much.
Love E.
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November 22, 2019
This is such a creative and engaging resource! Thank you for this resource! I will use for years to come!
All R.
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March 16, 2016
What a lovely and wonderfully creative resource! It added so much to our Valentine/February fun and we are still drawing activity and ideas from it this month. It has become a part of our Classroom Kindness and Caring Initiative. It sparked so much thinking for my kiddos. They loved it! Thanks for a very original and pertinent product!
Reply from Asa Jomard
Thanks for this wonderful comment. I loved that it sparked thinking:-)
Vicki K.
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