Life Skills Lessons, Activities, and More All for Free

Overcoming Obstacles is an award-winning K-12 life skills curriculum available for free to educators worldwide. You can download all of our materials today in our online digital library – no registration required.

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What is Overcoming Obstacles?

Overcoming Obstacles is the nonprofit publisher of free, award-winning K-12 life skills curricula. Since 1992, over 450,000 educators from around the world have taught the curricula to more than 100 million students.

Kindergarten through Second Grade

Lessons on fairness, listening, coping skills, self-control, respect, integrity, and more!

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THIRD THROUGH FIFTH GRADE

Lessons on empathy, integrity, perseverance, respect, and more!

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Middle School

Modules on skills such as communicating effectively, making decisions, setting goals, studying effectively, resolving conflicts, and more!

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High School

In addition to goal setting, communicating effectively, and making decisions, the high school curriculum includes modules on college readiness, on-the-job skills, developing a positive work ethic, and managing your life.

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OVERCOMING OBSTACLES DIGITAL LIBRARY

Visit our digital library to download and customize our entire K-12 curricula—as well as access all our training guides, translations, and more—for free! No registration required.

“My Overcoming Obstacles” is our unique online platform that gives you the ability to truly make Overcoming Obstacles your own. With our easy-to-use tools, you can customize every part of an Overcoming Obstacles lesson, down to each word.

Maybe you want to change a starter activity, so it ties into something unique about your school? Or perhaps you want to take one of our decision making lessons and align it with an historical event that your students are learning? Whatever you need, “My Overcoming Obstacles” is here for you to use however and whenever you want. It’s simple, intuitive, and—like all of our other resources—100% free.

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