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Teaching Elementary Social Studies
What Every Teacher Should Know
, First Edition
James Duplass, University of South Florida
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Topic 41: Values Formation

International Center for Character Education 
http://www.teachvalues.org/icce/icce7Tstds.htm


Website Resources: Literature for Moral Dilemmas

Character Counts at
http://www.charactercounts.org/booklist1.htm

Aesop’s Fables, the On-line Collection of 655+ Fables
www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop

Myths and Fables from Around the World
http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/

Stories of Heroes from Around the World
www.myhero.com/home.asp

Stories to Grow By
www.storiestogrowby.com

Anecdotal stories and biographical accounts that teach values
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/char_ed/stories/anecdotal.html

ERIC Electronic Resources: Teaching Values through Children's Literature
Go to http://searcheric.org/
and enter ED390075

Univeristy of Virginia E-books has lodwlaoadable copies of children's classics
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Young-Readers.html

A Bibliography of children's books dealing with conflict and violence
http://www.civiced.org/bibliography_violence.html
  
Civil Rights Primary Documents
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/rights1.html
 
The National Civil Rights Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/


The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
 http://www.actsofkindness.org/

Timeless Aphorisms
 http://www.websophia.com/aphorisms/
 
On Matters of Grave Concern
 http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/
  
Quotable Quotes  
http://www.quotablequotes.net/

The International Center for Character Education
http://www.teachvalues.org/icce/icce7Tstds.htm
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Website Resources: Values Education

ERIC Electronic Resources: Building Good Citizens for Texas: Character Education Resource Guide. Elementary School provides a yearlong plan for building character education.
Go to http://searcheric.org/
and enter ED440911

ERIC Electronic Resources How Can Teaching Geography Contribute to the Understanding of the Common Good? Although developed for high school, the lesson can be redeveloped for elementary education.
Go to http://searcheric.org/
and enter ED453088

ERIC Electronic Resources: Yours Truly: A Closer Look at Our Special Selves is for lower elementary students and has over 25 activities related to values, self-identity and personal histories.
Go to http://searcheric.org/
and enter ED404281

ERIC Electronic Resources: Character Matters: Using Newspapers To Teach Character has strategies for teaching 8 specific virtues.
Go to http://searcheric.org/
and enter ED438206

Website Resources: The Heinz Dilemma

http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm
http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/heinz.html



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