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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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