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Five Weeks of Kindness Experiment Two scientists at Ohio State University asked students who were feeling worried or sad to do three small acts of kindness twice a week for ve weeks. The students did things like:
ost people agree that doing kind things for others makes them feel good. Scientists now believe doing kind things for others is also good for you!
Kindness is Catching!
Please help me deliver these donations to the food drive!
Open doors for others.
Smile at people they haven’t met.
Volunteer to help someone.
When you do something kind for another person, it is catching. The person you are kind to will likely go out and do something kind for someone else.
Shovel a snowy sidewalk.
Carry someone’s groceries.
Give compliments.
Let someone cut in line in front of them.
Give someone a cookie.
Walk a neighbor’s dog.
Standards Link: Language Arts: Read informational text. At the end of the ve weeks, students reported feeling less worried and much happier. Being kind makes people feel good!
How kind! Someone surprised the teachers at Main Street Elementary School with owers. Can you nd the two arrangements that are exactly the same?
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