See Saskatchewan Education Curriculum Links for Heroes: Grade 7 - Pushed to the Limit: Surviving Life's Challenges (Language Arts)

• A 9-11 Moment: This site contains 34 Quick Time video clips (approximately 30-60 seconds in length) that communicate differing perspectives of what took place on 9-11 and how it has changed these peoples' lives. If you have access to a digital projector - these clips can be the springboard for though-provoking questions, debates, projects, and journal responses.
• Have students research places (towns, streets, parks, buildings, schools, libraries, hospitals) that may be named after local heroes or places where local people became heroes. View the "Remember Me: Local War Heroes and Memorials" presentation to engage student interest.
• Heroes & Heroines in the Family: In this unit from the Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute, students study multicultural fairy tales and folk tales to learn about heroes in various cultures. Written for middle school students, many of the activities in the unit can be adapted for elementary grades.
• Heroes Web Quest. In this unique Web Quest for the middle grades, students pretend they are Earthlings on an imaginary planet who have been asked to explain the qualities of a hero and find people on Earth who possess those characteristics. Students work in groups to complete the project as Power Point presentations.
• Build A Hero/Heroine: (Middle Years)Your challenge is to build a hero or heroine. You are going to research real-life heroes and heroines as well as read different kinds of stories to piece together the characteristics of a hero or heroine. Moving through the different activities, you will be keeping a book that defines a hero in many different ways. As you work, you will be building your own ideas on who you admire and why. In your final project, you will use this notebook of heroic proportions to make your own web site titled, My Hero. So keep a look out as you travel through this project for different characteristics that make up a hero!
• In Search of A Hero: (Grade 7) Students are assigned a hero to research or choose a hero with teacher approval. Students access electronic information to prepare a report to persuade others why the choice is a hero. In Search of A Hero Student Work Sheet - A student worksheet for researching a hero.
• Heroic Activities. Everyone has a hero -- someone to look up to or admire. Education Word offers ten lessons that will get students thinking about their heroes. Included: Activities -- students create a picture book about their heroes, develop holidays honoring their favorite heroes, create memorials for animal heroes, and more! Plus additional online resources!