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Thanks! A Strengths-Based Gratitude
Curriculum for Tweens and Teens
Four lessons to help students understand the
meaning of gratitude and how to cultivate it in
their everyday lives.
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Thanks! A Strengths-Based Gratitude
Curriculum for Tweens and Teens
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Lesson 1: Discover Your Grateful Self 10
Lesson 2: See The Good Challenge 17
Gift of the Magi-Reading
Gratitude Challenge-Activity
Gratitude Journal-Activity
Good Week Reflection-Activity
Subtracting Good Things-Activity
Lesson 3: Seeing The Good In Others 35
Go Out And Fill Buckets-Activity
Lesson 4: Thank You For Believing In Me 43
Gratitude Letter
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Thanks! A Strengths-Based Gratitude
Curriculum for Tweens and Teens
Introduction
Over the past two decades, studies have consistently found that
people who practice gratitude report fewer symptoms of illness,
including depression, more optimism and happiness, stronger
relationships, more generous behavior, and many other benefits.
Further, research convincingly shows that, when compared with their
less grateful peers, grateful youth are happier and more satisfied with
their lives, friends, family, neighborhood, and selves. They also report
more hope, engagement with their hobbies, higher GPAs, and less
envy, depression, and materialism.
That's why the Greater Good Science Center launched the Youth
Gratitude Project (YGP) as part of the broader Expanding the Science
and Practice of Gratitude, a multiyear project funded by the John
Templeton Foundation. In addition to advancing the knowledge of
how to measure and develop gratitude in children, the YGP created
and tested a new gratitude curriculum for middle and high schoolers.
The main idea of the YGP curriculum is that varied gratitude
practices should help students feel more socially competent and
connected, be more satisfied with school, have better mental
health and emotional well-being, and be more motivated about
school and their future. For example, practices like journaling that
genuinely build on students' strengths and guide them to have more
meaningful interactions and regular discussion with peers, teachers,
and other adults.
Preliminary evidence for the effects of the gratitude curriculum
indicate that it is helping to decrease depression, anxiety, and
antisocial behavior and increase hope, emotional regulation, and
search for purpose.
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