U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS Activity Guide Excerpt

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U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Activity Guide - Prototype

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CONTENTS

Message to Adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Part One – Welcome to the Leadership Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 1 – Leadership Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Activity 1 – Observation of Plant Growth 8 Activity 2 – Observation of Your Leadership Growth 9 Activity 3 – Leadership Garden Journal 10Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 11

Chapter 2 – Planting a Leadership Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Activity 1 – Brainstorm & Record 13 Activity 2 – Brain Field Trip 14Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 15

Part Two – The U.N.I.Q.U.E. Tour Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Activity – Good Choices Leadership 18Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 19

Chapter 3 – Understanding Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Activity 1 – Leader Behavior Discussion 21 Activity 2 – My Leader Balance Inventory 23 Activity 3 – My Purpose & Aim Leader Balance Wheel 24Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 25

Chapter 4 – Nurturing Meadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Activity 1 – Leader-friendly Gardening Practice Role Play 27 Activity 2 – Beyond the Classroom (Practice Project Grant opportunity) 28

Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 29

Chapter 5 – Inventive Roost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Activity 1 – Synergy Vocabulary 31 Activity 2 - Inventing a Purpose and Aim 32Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 39




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Chapter 6 – Quality Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Activity 1 – Quality Yard - Word Search 41 Activity 2 – Purpose & Aim Leader Balance Inventory 43 Activity 3 – Purpose & Aim Leader Balance Wheel 44

Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 45

Chapter 7 – Unstoppable Pasture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Activity 1 – Your Circle of Commitment 47 Activity 2 – Purpose & Aim Goal Setting 48Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 49

Chapter 8 – Expression Pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Activity 1 – You Presentation 51 Activity 2 – Find & Name 52Culminating Activity - Leadership Garden “Sprouting Greatness” Day 53Oregon Standards Chapter Summary 54

Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS Book and Activity Guide-Prototype Feedback Form . . . . . . 56

Oregon Standards book overview (grades 3-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

English Language Arts 59

Science & Social Sciences 62

Health 63

Mathematics 64

Oregon Standards Description by grade level and subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Character Education Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Research Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

40 Developmental Assets 74

Positive Youth Development 76

Resiliency Theory 77

About our Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78




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Message to Adults:

The U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS Activity Guide-Prototype is designed to reinforce and

enhance the lessons from my book U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership

Garden.This guide will undergo many growth cycles with your expert input andfeedback. Whether you are an educator, parent, grandparent, or youth development

specialist, I use the term “expert” because you know the needs of your students’ best.

Our purpose is to empower the extraordinary leader within each child. Our aim is to

empower and support you in helping them achieve their unique leadership

potential.

Each chapter begins as a review from the book with the corresponding lesson

summary from Hugh, the lesson box visual, and “Hugh Wants to Know” discussion

questions. Then sample activities follow. In chapters where there are activity sheets

for student use, they are included in this Guide and the Leadership Garden Journal.

This way, if you print the Journal, it will follow a sequential page format as you and

your students work through the book and activities.

At the end of each chapter and in the Appendices, included are the Oregon

Standards Description and Character Education goals to aide in the integration of

the lessons into your classroom, youth program, or home. If you are not an Oregon

educator, the descriptions should help you map them against your standards.

To assist those using grant monies, included are summaries and links to the Search

Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets for this age group, and discussion regarding

Positive Youth Development and the Resiliency Theory frameworks. These

frameworks are the foundation for my work and used for the book and activities.

U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden is a wonderful opportunity for

leadership to flourish in everyone, not just the youth. I hope you and your students

enjoy the journey with Hugh. I would love to hear what you discover via our

feedback form.

Sincerely,




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-Part One-

WELCOME

TO THE

LEADERSHIP F ARM




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Chapter 1

LEADERSHIP G ARDEN®

My thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are likeseeds growing in my Leadership Garden.

- Hugh

HUGH W ANTS TO K NOW

1. Can you name the three kinds of seeds that grow in Leadership Gardens?

2. What helpful seed thoughts are growing in your garden? How do they make you feel?

3. Do you have weed thoughts growing in your garden? How do they make youfeel?

4. What thoughts, feelings, or behavior would you like to grow in yourLeadership Garden to help you thrive?




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Activity 1Observation of Plant Growth

Students plant their own seeds, creating a classroom garden of plants.

Plants need…

☺ Soil

☺ Sunshine

☺ Water

☺ Love/Attention & Care

Students keep an observation journal to track plant growth, illustrate, identify, andlabel parts of a plant.

Example Only




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Activity 2Observation of Your Leadership Growth

Students use a Body Outline to label terms and ideas from the book. This activity

can be done throughout the reading of the entire book. A Body Outline is included in

the printable Leadership Garden Journal discussed in Activity 3.

How you think effects how you feel which effects how you behave!

Think

Feel

Behave Behave

Behave Behave

Example Only

Label:

☺ think, feel, behave

☺ family and life experiences

☺ emotion memory, thought memory, etc.




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Activity 3Leadership Garden Journal

Students will keep a Leadership Garden Journal throughout the reading of the book.

They will record personal ideas, thoughts, information, and feelings from each

chapter and their responses to “Hugh Wants To Know.” This Journal can also be

used for observation to track plant growth, illustrate, identify, and label parts of a

plant. A printable two-sided 8.5 x 11 Journal is available as a separate downloadable PDF

file.

Optional Activity

Like Hugh, find the meaning of your name. Go to www.name-meanings.com and

search for your name’s meaning or www.behindthename.com the site used to name

the book characters.




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Chapter 1

LEADERSHIP G ARDEN Oregon Standards

English Language Arts

(Reading, Literature, Writing,

Speaking/Listening)

3rd Grade

♦ EL.03.RE.07, 09, 10, 28,

33

♦ EL.03.LI.02, 06, 07, 09

♦ EL.03.WR.08, 09, 12, 23,

28

4th Grade

♦ EL.04.RE.05, 08, 10, 23,

24, 25

♦ EL.04.LI.07, 08

♦ EL.04.WR.13, 21

5th Grade

♦ EL.05.RE.08, 11, 26

♦ EL.05.LI.02, 06, 07

♦ EL.05.WR.22, 25, 28

♦ EL.05.SL.05

Science

3rd

Grades♦ 3.2L.1

4th Grade

♦ 4.2L.1

5th Grade

♦ 5.1L.1

♦ 5.1L .2

Social Sciences

3rd Grade

♦ SS.03.SA.01, 03, 04, 05

Health

3rd Grade

♦ HE.03.HS.04, 05, 06

Benchmark 2 (Grades 4-5)

♦ HE.05.HS.03, 04, 05, 06

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