Fact Monster: Hero

Here is a definition of a hero. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.

Who's Your Hero?

Here are letters from children where they tell about their heroes.

PBS: African American World for Kids: Your Heroes

Read short letters where kids describe their African American heroes. Click on the "Read More" button for more letters.

Portrait of a Hero

This page is dedicated to heroes and heroic actions based on events of September 11, 2001. Click on highlighted words to learn personality traits and qualities of a hero and read heroic stories.

Education World: What Makes a Hero?

This worksheet can help students to identify, think about, and discuss traits of a hero.

Education World: Who Are Your Heroes?

This worksheet can help students to write about their personal heroes and qualities that they admire.

Everyday Hero Program Description

Click on the "Questions and Answers about the Everyday Hero" link to learn what defines a hero, heroism, and courage. Select the "Animals as Metaphors for Heroism" link to learn how certain qualities of heroism can be associated with animals for easier understanding by kids. Click on the "The Hero Template" link for help recognize and evaluate heroic behavior. NOTE: The site has a link to a forum.

Lesson Plan: Heroes around Us

Here is a lesson plan for 6th to 8th graders. During the lesson students learn to recognize heroic characteristics, to separate heroes from idols, and read about heroes and heroic actions. NOTE: The site leads to websites with guest books and forums.

Learning to Give: Lesson Plan: Power of One

This lesson plan is designed for 6th to 8th graders. Here students can discover the meaning of the common good and find out about local heroes who contributed to the common good. Explore links in the "Unit Contents" in the gray box at the top left corner for more lesson plans about everyday heroes.

Fact Monster: Celebrity

Compare this definition of a celebrity to a hero definition. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.

Learning to Give: Lesson Plan: Heroes and Celebrities

This lesson plan is designed for students of third and fifth grades. It discusses characteristics of a hero and celebrity and includes definitions of a hero, celebrity, role model, and more.

Heroes vs. Celebrities in the Media

This curriculum offers students an opportunity to search media, discuss, and work creatively on a concept of a hero and celebrity. NOTE: The site leads to a website with a forum and a guestbook.

Fact Monster: Entertainment Biographies

Select alphabetical letters on this page to read biographies of celebrities in entertainment. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.

PBS: Woof! Dog Stories: Superhero Dog

Read a short story to find out how even a small dog can be a real hero.

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