Lesson Ideas from Byron Flitsch

Responsibility - What would you do?

Students will explore responsibility and reflect on how they would handle authentic moral dilemmas they may face in school or in life.

Celebrate Your Peers!

Students will interview a classmate and create a comic panel celebrating their unique strengths and passions.

Peak, Pit & Horizon Mindful Reflection

Students will mindfully reflect on their week’s highlights, challenges and hopes using a mountain metaphor.

My Trust Team!

Students will illustrate avatar versions of people in their lives that they trust and can confide in.

Perseverance Power!

Students will create themselves as “Perseverance Superheroes” and find a quote that inspires them to never give up.

Students will define visible characteristics that describe who they are and then explore the invisible characteristics, or things that are unseen and felt inside, that define who they are but people may not know.

Create Emotion Characters

Students will create a comic depicting a variety of emotions.

Personal Traditions

Students will create comics about personal traditions they celebrate outside of school.

Handling Conflict

Students will read a conflict comic and discuss conflict resolution.

S.M.A.R.T Goal Refresher

Students will review the meaning of the acronym of “S.M.A.R.T.” goal in preparation to write a goal of their own.

Setting Boundaries

Through prompted questions in comics, students will reflect on people and situations where they may have struggled with setting boundaries to better prepare for similar future scenarios.

Create a Procrastination Villain!

Students will learn to fight off procrastination and hone their writing skills by creating a “Procrastination Villain” comic.

Get to Know Me!

Students will share their life in a comic.

Making Smart Choices

Students will use comic reflection questions to learn how to make good decisions at home and in school.

Kindness Checklist

Students will practice kindness while completing a Kindness Comic Bingo Card.

Responsibility in School & Classroom

Illustrate a classroom or school expectation, comic book style!

Gratitude Journal

Students will create a comic journal documenting what they’re grateful for.

The Art of Apologizing

Through this sample comic, students will learn to use compassionate words when apologizing.

Try Time Management Tools!

Students will learn time management tools in a comic, then choose one to use for a week.

Mindful Morning Routine

Students will use a comic to guide themselves through a short mindful practice.

What Triggers Me?

Using comic scenarios, students will reflect on what triggers them and how to cope with those triggers.

The Brain Names!

Students will use the pre-created comic panels to review brain terminology.

Integrity

Students will use comic scenarios to discuss if the characters are showing integrity or not.

Is it Joking or Bullying?

Using comic scenarios, students will decide if a situation is joking or bullying.

Be An Upstander!

Students will learn about living as an upstander and explore what they would say to someone who is bullying someone else.

Digital Habits Quiz

Students will take a true or false quiz to test their knowledge about digital usage and their mental health, and then create a comic showing some positive alternatives.