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Kid Friendly Research Website for Friendship

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Kid Friendly Research Website for Friendship

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This website is grade level appropriate and allows students to explore terms associated with friendship. I will use this as a tool for students to be able to interact with and find information in regards to defining friendship.

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Friendship means familiar and liking of each other's mind.

People who are friends talk to each other and spend time together. They trust one another and also help each other when they are in trouble or are hurt. Friends are people that can be looked up to and trusted. Usually friends have similar interests. A friend is one who admires a person's skill and helps or encourages them to make the right choices and do not get into any trouble at all.

The strength of the bond of friendship between two people can vary. If the bond is very strong, they are called best friends. This can usually be achieved by possessing the elements of friendship, by being kind, generous, loyal, honest and by having fun. With these qualities you can truly enjoy the bliss of friendship.

There are expectations, demands and complaints in friendship too. If friends don't match with your expectations, it does not mean you will break the friendship. It is all about understanding, realizing and helping whenever possible.

Friendship is both good and necessary. Man cannot live all alone. He is a social being. He needs someone to share his joys and sorrows. Generally, it is only people of similar age, character and background, mentality, etc., who can understand him and his problems. Friends are needed for support and for sharing.

There are many different types of friendships. Most people find friends at a very young age however it is harder for others. Many movies are based off of a group of friends. An example of a friendship would be that of Sierra, Olivia, Emma, Langli, and Mallory's in the movie Eight grade Whittier.

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Friendship means familiar and liking of each other's mind. People who are friends talk to each other and spend time together. They trust one another and also help each other when they are in trouble or are hurt. Friends are people that can be looked up to and trusted.

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This website is somewhere where my students can go to research and interact with virtual characters that role play specific situations associated with bullying.

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This video portrays what being a good team mate and a bad team mate look like. This will allow students to see friendship and bullying associated with healthy competition, sports, games, and team work.

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Child Friendly Research Website for Friendship and Bullying

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Child Friendly Research Website for Friendship and Bullying

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This website will allow students to explore what terms are associated with bullying and other concepts associated with what bullying might look like.

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This read aloud will give students insight to the struggles behind making friends and how it isn't easy for everyone. This will foster conversations about creating new friendships.

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📚 READ ALOUD: How I made a friend By Daniel Georges

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Child Friendly Research Website for bullying

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Child Friendly Research Website for bullying

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This kid friendly website will allow students to explore and conduct research based on all the important aspects inclusive of bullying to be able to discuss the key concepts of bullying amongst their peers.

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This video will show students the many ways in which good friends are compromised. This video will highlight the characters and qualities of being a good friend.

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This video will allow students to see how children their age define friendship.

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This short video will show students through a playful clip the variety of emotions associated with friendship.

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Kindness Is Cooler Ms. Ruler (Read Aloud)

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Kindness Is Cooler Ms. Ruler (Read Aloud)

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Kindness is an emotion associated with being a good friend and a good person. Therefore Students will listen to this read-aloud and define what kindness means to them and provide examples within the book to support their claims.

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Teaching students how to be kind and respectful (Best Friends Foundation)

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This video allows students to see what friendship can be defined as through a child's perspective.

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Kids Talk About What Makes A Good Friend

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Kids Talk About What Makes A Good Friend

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This video shows young children discussing what they feel it means to be a good friend. This video will allow students to see what a good friend might encompass through multiple viewpoints.

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This book explores kindness, courage and friendship. It portrays how having a friend is a wonderful thing and how friends help one another. This allows students to explore friendship across species.

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children’s / teenage fiction: general fiction

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children’s / teenage fiction: nature and animal stories

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children’s / teenage general interest: fish and marine life

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children’s / teenage personal and social topics: friends and friendships

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juvenile fiction / animals / marine life

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juvenile fiction / social themes / friendship

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juvenile fiction/action & adventure - general

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teenage fiction: nature and animal stories

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The Snail and the Whale [Donaldson, Julia, Scheffler, Axel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Snail and the Whale

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The Piggie Series is one that students of this age align with and love reading. This book students will take turns in rotation reading in small groups. This book will highlight the emotions friends face together and how to identify those specific emotions to define them.

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This book will be at a center for the students to take turns see saw reading within a small group to one another. Then the students can explore what they feel the author wanted us to learn about being a friend.

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Be a Friend [Yoon, Salina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Be a Friend

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This brain pop interactive website will allow students to explore key vocabulary terms associated with bullying.

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Health | Personal Health | Bullying | Vocabulary - BrainPOP

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Learn more and understand better with BrainPOP's animated movies, games, playful assessments, and activities covering Science, Math, History, English, and more!

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This book could be read in small groups in which students will go on an adventure with a group of friends and be able to explore what makes these children such great friends.

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This read aloud will allow students to see the qualities of a best friend. It also highlights the joys that come with having a best friend but how you can have more than one best friend as well. This will in turn foster conversation amongst peers in regards to having multiple best friends.

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My Best Friend [Fogliano, Julie, Tamaki, Jillian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My Best Friend

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This video will show students the impact of being a friend has on people. The video highlights the importance of being able to make a difference in someones life by a small gesture. Thus fostering conversation about kindness , compassion, and empathy associated with friendship.

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This book will be read amongst members of small groups. The students will be tasked with answering whether the book is about friends or enemies and use evidence from the text to support their claims.

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This close read will explore the racial divide during a specific time period in which children of color were unable to be friends with white children. This book will highlight social injustices and foster conversation about fairness, equality, and the power of friendship.

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This brain pop video will allow students to see what bullying looks like and be able to distinguish between playing jokes, friendly banter, and bullying.

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This book touches upon friendship and bullying in regards to students with disabilities. This book will highlight the ways in which making friends can be more difficult for students that struggle with disabilities. This will foster conversations about compassion and empathy amongst the students.

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This whimsical video will allow students to explore the stop bullying website as well as view what bullying looks like across multiple races.

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To Be or Not to Be Seen | StopBullying.gov

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This video will allow students to explore the key concepts associated with friendship through the eyes of children their own age.

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This video will allow students to spark curiosity in regards to bullying and mental health associated with bullying. It will allow students to see how bullying looks on both ends of the spectrum.

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Toy Story You've Got a Friend in Me Lyrics

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Toy Story You've Got a Friend in Me Lyrics

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This song students will listen to and begin thinking about how the lyrics in the song define friendship. The students will have a print out of the lyrics and be able to highlight the lines associated with friendship and decipher them in their own words.

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Toy Story - You've got a friend in me - lyrics

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This read aloud will allow students to explore the value of selflessness in regards to relationships, This whimsical read aloud will allow students to see the ways in which one can care for another more than they do themselves, and how powerful that is.

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The students will explore friendship through poetry and be able to put into their own words what the poets described friendship to be.

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The following poems about friendship are appropriate for young readers.

more poems for kids

“sisters” by Lucille Clifton
me and you be sisters…
read the lesson plan

“Your Catfish Friend” by Richard Brautigan
If I were to live my life…

“Not Here, Exactly” by Joanna Fuhrman
I found your letter…

“This Morning I Pray for My Enemies” by Joy Harjo
And whom do I call my enemy?

“To a Friend who sent me some Roses” by John Keats
As late I rambled in the happy fields…

“For N & K” by Gina Myers
Otis on vinyl…

“My Friend Tree” by Lorine Niedecker
My friend tree…

“We Have Been Friends Together” by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
We have been friends together…

“Red Brocade” by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Arabs used to say…

“Since Hanna Moved Away” by Judith Viorst
The tires on my bike are flat…

“Travelling” by William Wordsworth
This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun…

more friendship poems

browse materials for teachers

browse poems and poets

how to create an anthology

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The following poems about friendship are appropriate for young readers.more poems for kids"sisters" by Lucille Cliftonme and you be sisters...read the lesson plan

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The students will each choose one kindness quote and be able to identify what kindness means to them and make a connection from their own definition to the ways in which the author defined kindness and empathy.

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Kindness quotes and famous remarks about empathy, compassion, forgiveness, and peace help engage children in meaningful conversations about themselves. Through these discussions, we teach kids about the true essence of the human spirit.
Empathy is the ability to recognize, feel, and respond to the needs and suffering of others. It facilitates the expression of caring, compassion, and kindness. Empathy helps youth see the outward impact of their actions in developing a just and sustainable world for everyone.

Parents and teachers influence young people's abilities to care for others beyond themselves by creating meaningful relationships with them-by ensuring youth are seen, felt, and understood. When adults expose young people to different worldviews and encourage them to do meaningful community service, youth develop higher levels of empathy and compassion.

Unfortunately, empathy is on the decline. Research shows that today's teens are 40 percent less empathetic than they were 30 years ago. This lack of empathy goes hand-in-hand with bullying, self-absorption, and less resilience.

Kindness quotes can help children understand empathy in new ways - to discover how generosity, patience, forgiveness, tolerance, civic-mindedness, caring, and compassion are vital to peace and human understanding. Wise people throughout history have talked about the importance of empathy, from the Classical Greek philosopher Plato to modern TV personalities like Ellen DeGeneres. Research shows that empathy is one of eight core abilities that drive successful kids.

This article is the last of a nine-part series on how adults can promote learning and development using inspiring quotes for kids. You may wish to read the introductory article to learn how the collection of 200 quotes are related to The Compass Advantage, a framework for positive youth development.

The following kindness quotes are short, simple, and memorable. Children from elementary through high school will find meaning in these quotes appropriate to their level of development and understanding.

25 Kid-Friendly Kindness Quotes to Inspire Empathy

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins.

Barack Obama

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

Dolly Parton

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

Ellen DeGeneres

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Euripides

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

Henry Ford

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

John Steinbeck

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Arundhati Ray

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.

Booker T. Washington

Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness.

Aesop

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

Meryl Streep

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A.A. Milne

We may have all come on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

Maya Angelou

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up. --Booker T. Washington #QuotesForKids #quote #empathy #kindness #parenting Click To Tweet

Kindness Quotes: Discussion Starters

The following discussion starters are just a few of many that can be used by parents, teachers, and after-school program leaders to engage children with quotes about kindness and empathy.

How would you define empathy?

What are your favorite empathy and kindness quotes from the list? Why?

Share a story about a time someone was kind and caring to you. What do you remember? How did you feel? If you could thank that person right now for their kindness, what would you say?

Do you see yourself as a kind, caring person? Why or why not?

What are some of the many ways people express empathy in their everyday lives?

What are the positives and negatives of being empathetic?

How do people learn to develop empathy?

Empathy in Action

In what ways could your empathy and kindness help others?

What problems in the world, such as those related to racism or bullying, would empathy help contribute to solutions?

Your Favorite Empathy and Kindness Quotes?

Do you have any favorite quotes about kindness and empathy that engage children and teens in dialogue about caring, civic-mindedness, forgiveness, stewardship, tolerance, compassion, or generosity? We'd love to add to our collection by inviting you to share your quotes in the comments section below.

Articles in the "Quotes for Kids" Series

Quotes for Kids That Promote Healthy Development ( Series Introduction)

Quotes About Curiosity That Inspire Kids' Life-Long Learning ( Curiosity)

Motivational Quotes for Kids That Help Build Positive Relationships ( Sociability)

Quotes About Resilience That Foster Children's Determination and Self-Confidence ( Resilience)

Self-Awareness Quotes That Help Kids Explore Their Inner Selves ( Self-Awareness)

Integrity Quotes That Teach Kids the Importance of Character ( Integrity)

Quotes about Goals That Motivate Kids Toward Success ( Resourcefulness)

Creativity Quotes That Inspire Kids' Inner Genius ( Creativity)

Kindness Quotes That Teach Kids to Care ( Empathy)

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Kindness Quotes That Teach Kids to Care | Roots of Action

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Kindness quotes and famous remarks about empathy, compassion, forgiveness, and peace help engage children in meaningful conversations about themselves. Through these discussions, we teach kids about the true essence of the human spirit. Empathy is the ability to recognize, feel, and respond to the needs and suffering of others.

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This image will spark curiosity by being posted on the smart board with a question posed next to it that says what do you see in this picture? Students will begin to turn and talk to discuss what they see and a brainstorm can be created as whole class. This picture will seguway into the conversation about friendship.

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This short film is quite emotional and will tug on ones heart strings. This video highlights a child with a disability that wants to fit in with his peers and be included so badly. This video portrays the power of working together, and allowing people to make new friends. It will allow students to see the impact they have on the lives of others , again fostering empathy, compassion and kindness.

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CGI 3D Animated Short: "Ian" - by Mundoloco CGI Ian Foundation | TheCGBros

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These multiple images will be placed on the smartboard and with each image I will ask the students what they see is happening in the pictures. This will foster conversations about bullying, leaving people out, and unintentionally bullying.

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These Images will allow students to see how bullying might look. This will foster conversations in regards to the emotions tied to children being bullied or not having friends.

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Were All Wonders short story Read aloud 

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Were All Wonders short story Read aloud 

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This short story will be read to students to spark their curiosity about the word wonder and what it might mean in relation to differences. This book will allow students to talk amongst one another in regards to what being different looks and feels like in this book.

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WE'RE ALL WONDERS Book Read Aloud | Uplifting Book for Kids | Kids Books Read Aloud

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This read aloud will get students thinking about how the main character felt in the beginning middle and end of the book and what the main theme was. ( Bullying, overcoming adversity )

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Stick and Stone 🪨 Beth Ferry (Kids Book Read Aloud) | Friendship |Miss Jill

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This video will allow students to see through animation of animals what friendship means for these rabbits. This will foster curiosity about friendship across species.

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Peter Rabbit - The Meaning of Friendship | Cartoons for Kids

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The students will listen to lyrics from this song and be tasked with putting in their own words what the artist meant by her lyrics. They will be asked to describe if this song talks about bullying, or friendship.

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This interactive read aloud will allow students to see the concept of bullying and friendship all in one. It will allow them to interact with the characters and follow them along their journey from enemies to friends.

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This chapter book will book read in chapters across the entire unit to encompass the entire theme of friends and enemies. This book will be read each day until the unit is done. It will foster conversations about differences, disabilities, friendship, adversity, kindness, compassion, cruelty and growing up.