Heroic Actions
When you see a new student sitting all alone at lunch, doing this simple, friendly action makes you a hero to them.
What is inviting them to sit with you? (Acceptable: Being a friend / including them).
These heroes rush into burning buildings to put out fires and rescue people and pets.
Who are firefighters?
By refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, she became a hero of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He had a dream and gave a famous speech in Washington, D.C., fighting for civil rights using peace and love.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This young wizard with a lightning-bolt scar uses his magic to save Hogwarts from Lord Voldemort.
Who is Harry Potter?
This word means choosing to give your time or money to help others without expecting anything in return.
What is charity?
This school hero welcomes you every morning, teaches you reading and math, and helps you learn new things all year long.
Who is a teacher?
This brave pilot was the first woman to fly all by herself across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
She bravely escaped slavery and went back 19 times on the Underground Railroad to rescue over 300 others.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This green ogre leaves his swamp to rescue Princess Fiona from a dragon-guarded tower.
Who is Shrek?
This heroic action involves choosing to understand and care about how another person is feeling.
What is empathy or showing compassion?
These heroes work in hospitals and clinics, checking your heartbeat and helping you heal when you are sick.
Who are doctors/nurses?
Born blind and deaf, she overcame incredible challenges to learn to speak and write, spending her life as a hero who fought for people with disabilities.
Who is Helen Keller?
He made history in 1947 by breaking the baseball color barrier and wearing the number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This superhero uses her Lasso of Truth and bulletproof bracelets to fight for justice.
Who is Wonder Woman?
When a person risks their own safety to pull someone out of a dangerous situation, like a rushing river, they are performing this action.
What is a rescue?
This community hero wakes up very early to pick up our trash and recycling, keeping our neighborhoods clean and healthy.
What is a sanitation worker?
Serving from 1969 to 1974, this famous leader made history as the first and only female Prime Minister of Israel.
Who is Golda Meir?
She made history as a hero in politics when she became the very first female Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This half-canine, half-human hero wears a blue uniform and spends his days fighting crime and stopping his nemesis, Petey the Cat.
Who is Dog Man?
This word describes the heroic action of sticking with a hard task and never giving up, even when things get tough.
What is perseverance?
These everyday heroes donate their free time without getting paid to help out at animal shelters, food banks, and schools.
Who are volunteers?
Known as "The Lady with the Lamp," this heroic nurse changed the way hospitals worked and saved countless lives during a major war.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
She was the first African American woman to travel into space, blasting off aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
After spending 100 years frozen in an iceberg, this 12-year-old Air Nomad was discovered by Katara and Sokka.
Who is Avatar Aang?