Third Grade ACES

SecondStep Curriculum

Unit #1: Self-Awareness

Growth Mindset

Learning Objectives:

Students will define a brain NETWORK.
Students will be able to describe what happens in your brain when you learn a new skill.
Students will understand why learning a new thing can be challenging and take practice.
Students will understand why practice changes the way their brain functions.
Students will define MISTAKES.
Students will be able to explain why mistakes are helpful to the learning process.
Students will be able to name two additional actions they can take besides practice and effort to improve a skill: learning from others and trying a new way.
Students will reflect on ways they have improved since second grade and think about the current goals they have for third grade.

Emotional Management

Learning Objectives:

Students will understand that emotions give them helpful information.
Students will be able to identify various emotions by looking a facial and body clues.
Students will be able to differentiate levels of feelings such as annoyed, angry, and furious though contextual and behavioral clues.
Students will define FIGHT, FLIGHT, and FREEZE responses.
Students will understand that they cannot think clearly when they are at a high level of an emotion.
Students will discuss ways to de-escalate their strong feelings.
Students will be able to recognize when and how to take a break to regulate a strong emotion.
Students will be able to demonstrate that they recognize differences between level of intensity of similar emotions.

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Friendship Development

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to identify kind acts that can build a new friendship.
Students will define EMPATHY.
Students will understand that empathy helps motivate us to do kind acts, which can help people feel better and show them we care.
Students will be able to identify kind acts that can make existing friendships stronger.
Students will be able to ask questions to determine how someone feels and a kind act they could use to help make them feel better.
Students will demonstrate how to give someone space and ask a friend what they need.
Students will understand that we each have our own way of interpreting kindness.
Students will discuss the different ways people try to express kindness.
Students will define WORDS OF AFFIRMATION, QUALITY TIME, ACTS OF SERVICE, GIFT GIVING, and PHYSICAL TOUCH.
Students will be able to identify which of the five categories a kind actions fall under.

Boundaries

Learning Objectives:

Students will define a BOUNDARY.
Students will identify different kinds of boundaries and why they are important to recognize.
Students will define COMFORTABLE and UNCOMFORTABLE.
Students will identify interpersonal boundary violations.
Students will be able to recognize when a behavior is outside a typical age appropriate boundary.
Students will understand that when we do a behavior outside our role or age boundary it makes people around us uncomfortable.
Students will define a VERBAL BOUNDARY.
Students will understand that the time and place can change what is appropriate and inappropriate to say.
Students will define a ONE UPPER and a PUT DOWN.
Students will be able to recognize the difference between using our words to make someone feel good and using words that hurt others.
Students will identify safety rules as boundaries for home, school, and the community.
Students will be able to distinguish between safe and unsafe touches.
Students will identify strategies to keep themselves safe.

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Problem Solving Skills

Learning Objectives:

Students will define FLEXIBLE THINKING.
Students will be able to recall a process they can use to solve problems (STEP).
Students will be able to restate the wants of each person involved in a given problem.
Students will be able to generate multiple solutions to a given problem.
Students will be able to identify whose wants are met by possible solutions.
Students will be able to pick a solution for a given problem and explain why they chose it.

Think, Act, Feel

Learning Objectives:

Students will define THOUGHTS.
Students will understand that the thoughts they choose to focus on affect their feelings and actions.
Students will identify how someone's thoughts and feeling affect what they will do in a given situation.
Students will define REACTIONS.
Students will recognize how are thoughts affect our reactions.
Students will define SELF-TALK.
Students will identify whether a thoughts is positive or negative.
Students will learn strategies to change negative thoughts into positive thoughts.
Students will practice changing unhelpful, negative thoughts into helpful, positive thoughts.

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Career Development

Learning Objectives:

Students will define CAREER.
Students will be able to identify a career by looking at what tools the person uses in their position.
Students will understand that different careers have different training and use different skills.
Students will be introduced to the different kinds of training opportunities that are available for various careers.
Students will recognize that some of the skills they are learning in third grade will help them in a future career.
Students will explore a potential career path and predict what training they will have to do to get that career.

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