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All Stars Junior

 

All Stars Junior is an innovative school-based prevention curriculum for fourth and fifth grade children. The program is designed to be delivered with the language arts, science and mathematics curriculum in the classroom, while simultaneously addressing protective factors designed to prevent substance use, violence, and other problem behaviors.

All Stars Junior has two elementary school programs. The fourth grade program has nine 30-minute science and math activities and nine language arts activities. The fifth grade program has twenty-two science and math activities and nine language arts activities. In both programs science and math activities are designed to reinforce positive norms about drug use, fighting, and telling the truth. Language arts activities are designed to reinforce idealism and a future orientation. Both programs have a behavior management activities designed to be delivered throughout the school year as weekly 15-minute team meetings known as All Stars Challenge.

All Stars Junior is divided into three sections:

  • Improving Social Interaction: All Stars Junior gives teachers a successful strategy to promote positive social interaction among students through the All Stars Challenge, a team-based game designed to promote good behavior.
  • Establishing Conventional Norms Through Science Education: All Stars Junior provides a fun way to learn age-appropriate science and math. Using the scientific method, students learn that lying, fighting, and drug use are unacceptable to their peers. 
  • Building Idealism Through Language Arts: All Stars Junior encourages students to explore values, goals, and ideals while developing language skills, following Spandel’s Six-Trait Assessment for Beginning Writers. Students actually find these language activities fun and enjoyable. 

All Stars Junior is developmentally appropriate for fourth or fifth grade students. The program is intended for use in school settings and supports educational standards for these grades. All Stars Junior is a program that prepares students to participate in the middle school programs, All Stars Core, All Stars Booster, and All Stars Plus.

All Stars Junior Logic Model (pdf)

 
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