AIM Buddy Project
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Overview
The AIM Buddy Project is a supplemental social, emotional, and character development curriculum that uses interactive media, the characters from the PBS series ARTHUR, and cross-grade buddy pairs. Students partner with a buddy to work on interactive comics and games that focus on five important topics –empathy, honesty, forgiveness, generosity, and learning from others. As buddy pairs engage with the ARTHUR characters they talk about and reflect on things like feelings, perspective-taking, and problem-solving.
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Features
AIM Program Goals
- Engage students with interactive media and cross-grade buddy collaborations to stimulate in-the-moment discussions, questions and thoughtful reflections as they observe character’s feelings and behaviors, and explore different perspectives.
- Encourage positive cross-grade peer relationships (grades 1 and 4; 2 and 5), cross- grade teacher relationships, and school-wide relationships.
- Help students build skills and attitudes that enable them to think more critically and be more accountable for their actions and relations with others.
AIM Curriculum
• The AIM Curriculum can be used to supplement existing SEL and character development programs or as a stand-alone set of resources. Each of the five units (empathy, honesty, forgiveness, generosity, and learning from others) features an online comic or game based on an ARTHUR episode, and is supported by various additional resources.
• The AIM Curriculum can be used to supplement existing SEL and character development programs or as a stand-alone set of resources. Each of the five units (empathy, honesty, forgiveness, generosity, and learning from others) features an online comic or game based on an ARTHUR episode, and is supported by various additional resources.
- The comprehensive AIM Educator’s Guide serves as a roadmap to help step teachers through the planning, preparation, and implementation of 20 classroom sessions.
- Five Educator Planning Videos are embedded in the
Educator’s Guide to offer added support and training. - The AIM Buddy Project Collection is available free of charge on PBS LearningMedia.
Interoperability
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