Short quizzes, questions, and games ask children to consider conflicting values, empathy, personal rights and the rights of others, self control, different values for different people, and more. Teaching Values is a similar guidebook for adults working with children in grades 4-8. Readers start with self-tests to help them find out about themselves and give them a starting point. Each chapter then presents dilemmas to use for journaling, writing essays, discussion, role-playing, and reflecting. Activities based in categories such as science, social studies, language arts, social action, sports, and games help students relate topics on character to what they may be doing in school or in their lives.
True stories interspersed throughout the text inspire young people to do and be their best.
Additional resources and websites help children explore character issues further. A little girl draws a tree in class one day, but her classmates laugh at her. Her tree does not look like all of their trees. Fortunately, her teacher recognizes her unique talent and encourages her to draw what she sees, not what others see. Throughout the sketchbook are drawings of her family, teacher, and pets, and, more importantly, encouragement to readers to draw what they see in their own unique way.