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Gratitude Banners

Students will identify leadership traits and other qualities they admire in people around them, then create a banner of gratitude for that person.

Lesson Plan

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  • Paper

Steps

  • Step 1

    Ask students to identify people in their lives who motivate and inspire them. Perhaps it is a teacher, librarian, coach, music instructor, family member, or anyone else. Then ask them to think of the admirable leadership traits and other qualities these people embody.

  • Step 2

    Have students create a banner to express their gratitude to one of the people they chose. They can cut a notch out of the bottom of a sheet of paper to make the banner look like a large ribbon. The banner should include the name of the person and some of the traits they admire or the reasons they feel grateful for knowing this person. Each banner can be created in a unique way based on the feelings of the artist.

  • Step 3

    Have students present their gratitude banners to the class, then ask them to share the banners with the people they honored.

Standards

SEL: Social Awareness: Understand the influences of organizations and systems on behavior. Recognize family, school, and community resources and express gratitude. 

SEL: Social Awareness: Understand the perspectives of and strengths of others. 

Adaptations

Read a book such as "Gracias-Thanks" by Pat Mora and John Parra or "We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga" by Traci Sorell and Frane Lessac, which is a book about gratitude as practiced by the Cherokee people. Have a discussion about the universality of positive qualities and expressing gratitude.

Have students learn how to say "thank you" in various languages.