Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Have the children draw a picture with multiple faces of heroes and heroines and include their own face.

Objective: To have the children experience how there is a hero/heroine in all of us.

Activity: Have the children draw a picture with multiple faces of heroes and heroines and include their own face.

Assessment: The child’s own meaning is the only assessment here. The child needs to tell an interested person about her/his picture.