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Animate Your World: Shaping Character, for middle-school students, presents a character education program focused on three character behaviors: respect for self, respect for others, and responsibility to community. Teachers review character education topics with their students, the students view a CD-ROM with animated sequences focusing on character challenging situations, and then students plan, design, and produce their own endings to the cartoons, incorporating the character edu...

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