Lesson Plan

What's In Your Bucket?

Students will explore kindness and self-awareness through Carol McCloud’s Fill Your Bucket Today, identify bucket-filling behaviors, create personal bucket examples, and reflect on how positive actions impact emotions.

Building empathy and resilience is key for 5th graders. This lesson fosters prosocial behavior, self-awareness, and a supportive classroom climate by helping students recognize and practice acts of kindness.

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10 minutes

Step 1

Introduction

5 minutes

Step 2

Read-Aloud

10 minutes

Step 3

Guided Discussion

10 minutes

Step 4

Bucket-Filling Activity

15 minutes

Step 5

Reflection & Closure

5 minutes

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What’s In Your Bucket?

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Why Fill Buckets?

Bucket-Filling vs. Bucket-Dipping

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Read-Aloud Prompts

Guided Discussion

Bucket-Filling Activity

Reflection Journal

Closing Challenge

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What's In Your Bucket?

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