Office of Educational Services & Support

Links

NOTE: Presentation of any particular curriculum does not constitute endorsement, approval or recommendation for adoption of that curriculum. All selection of curricular programs or items should be made by local school boards or administrators.

Character Education Programs

• Caring Habits
• Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs 
• Character Counts - This site has a rotating base of activities for different age groups.
• Character Education – Livewire - This has some great discussion questions on different character education topics.  They coordinate with videos they sell, but many of the questions they suggest would be good to use without the video.  They are adapted to different age groups.
• Character Education Partnership 
• Character Training Institute
• Community of Caring
• Developmental Studies Center
• Every Person Influences Children (EPIC)
• Foundations for a better life - This has short videos of examples of good character.
• Laws of Life
• Learning for Life
• Megaskills
• National Character Education Center

Character Education web sites in other states

• Indiana
• Maine Character Education - This site has some activities to use for celebrating good character and citizenship.
• North Dakota Character Education
• Utah

Educational Resources

• Aesops Fables 
• American Documents
• Center for Civic Education - They have a fine resource list for materials available on citizenship, etc.
• Do-gooder - Website detailing specific needs we can fill around the world
• Don't Laugh at Me - This is a free opportunity to order materials with many fine character building activities at many grade levels.  You just have to go to the website and register your school.  This is recommended by the school counselors as well.
• Earthcam
• Fact Monster
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
• Health Activities
• Justice for Kids and Youth
• Kids Care Club
• Kids Government Site
• Kids Philosophy Slam
• Service Learning 
• South Dakota Ed Web - A key element of the educator section is the guide to quality instructional resources, lesson plans, and on-line activities focusing on the knowledge and skills that the state as a whole wants students to master. All instructional links have been correlated to the South Dakota core content standards.  There are also sections for students and parents.
• Tiger Woods Start Something Program
• USA Values - This site has short one-sentence messages that relate to different virtues and would create good discussion questions for younger children.  There are also some games on this site for young children.
• World Fact Book 2001

Grants

• Education grants and funding
• Fundsnet
• Fundsnet Online Services
• Grant writing tips

Other Links

• PTA