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Supplemental Materials for use with New Sun

These are two sets of educator-developed and standards-aligned lesson plans and slide decks for educators to use in conjunction with the resilience game New Sun.

Due to the topics addressed in New Sun, there are separate lesson plans and slide decks designed for students in 6th-9th grade [middle school] and 10th-12th grade [high school]. The covered topics are coping strategies, identifying emotions, resilience, and self awareness.

These lesson plans and slide decks are available to download as single PDF documents.

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Articles and Resources About Resilience & Communication

Additional background information about coping skills, stress management, and resilience for handout, review, or further classroom discussion.

  1. Supporting Resilience in Schools
    - California Department of Education


  2. Emmy&mark; Award-winning PBS series, Hope Givers
    - Hope Givers


  3. Resources to Build Resiliency
    - Resilient Georgia


  4. Coping with Stress
    - CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)


  5. Resources for Addressing Trauma and Building Resilience in School-Age Children and Out-of-School-Time Settings
    - Office of Early Childhood Development (U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services)


  6. Resilience: Definitions, attributes, characteristics, factors, and additional resources
    - Resilient Games website (Jennifer Ann's Group)

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