Teach Equitableness to Young Children

Free character education lesson plans are my gift to teachers, and to parents who are home schooling children. Yesterday, I was writing a free character education lesson plan to insert in our newsletter, the Character Builder. The entire letter focuses on the character trait “equitableness”, and I wanted to help

Equitableness Is the Answer to Discrimination

I’ve been pressed into research this week on the problem of discrimination in the workplace. Specifically, I’m studying ageism, and it’s very real. Imagine for a minute that you’re 65 years old and unemployed. In the classified ads, you see a perfect job. Your education and experience make you well

Equitableness Scale Craft

It’s very easy to craft a simple scale, and this one makes a great take-home reminder. This activity is GOOD FOR ANY AGE student since it can be simple or complex. Simply adapt materials – ask teenagers to get creative and make individual scales as unique as they can. Materials:

Equitableness Does Not Mean Equality

Many misunderstand equitableness to mean equality, but it does not. Equitableness, on one hand, is the quality of keeping things fair and balanced. Equality, on the other hand, is recognition of things or people that are the same, even as the two sides of a mathematical equation are the same.

Applied Equitableness

In your home, at work, as you shop and run other errands – wherever you are, you will find opportunities in your daily life to apply equitableness. The equitable treatment of others is an issue that cuts across our national traditions, political factions, age, gender, race, religion, physical or mental

Equitableness Never Tips the Scales

Do you? Do you tip the scales of justice in favor of one person or another? If you are teaching your own or a group of children, do you find yourself tipping the scales to benefit one student or group of students? Do you have a “favorite child” or a

Equitableness for Young Children

Children as young as preschool ages can learn the meaning of this trait. They can learn to say the word, too. In fact, young children delight in learning to accurately repeat words that are almost too big for them. Introduce your lesson by teaching children to say equitableness. Break the

Equitableness for Secondary Students

Secondary students, as a group, are almost synonymous with the concept of bowing to pressure from one’s peers. Teens are also likely to be described as a group that demands equitableness, but do they really understand this trait? Suppose you ask the class to select teams for a contest or