Tips to Calm Down Classroom Posters and SEL Lesson - No Prep

Eight calm-down strategies, from counting to five to a body scan, are taught through a Google Slides lesson and student note-taker, then displayed as full-page classroom posters for ongoing reminders.
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Updated Sep 11, 2023

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Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
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Calm Down, Calming Tips
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Tips to Calm Down Posters- 8 beautifully designed posters each with a different strategy students can use to calm down. These posters will be a gorgeous SEL addition to your classroom. Teach each strategy using the SEL lesson/worksheet in your classroom. Then, display across the room as a reminder of things students can do when they are escalated. This SEL lesson is so important for students to be able to use in the classroom and beyond! The SEL lesson includes a print-and-go, no-prep worksheet and teacher Google Slide Deck to introduce the strategies to the students.


These could be a great addition to any classroom, counsellor office, principal office, nurses office, therapist office, etc.!

What is Included in the Tips to Calm Down Poster Product:

  • Description/Explanation of the Resource

  • 8 Full Page Tips to Calm Down Posters

  • Student Note-taker

  • Google Slide Deck for Whole Class SEL Lesson

How to use:

  • Teach each strategy as an SEL Lesson

    • Pass out Note-taker

    • Display each strategy on the board using Google Slide Deck

    • Explain each strategy

    • Have students fill out the note-taker as you go

  • Post these strategies in a calming place in your classroom

  • Have students revisit these posters when they need a time to calm down

Strategies Included in the Posters-

  1. Counting to Five (with breathing exercise)

  2. Taking a Deep Breath (mindful of body movements)

  3. Tapping Exercises

  4. Placing Hands in Pockets

  5. Acknowledge what make you angry

  6. Make a fist, then relax it

  7. Do a body scan

  8. Tell someone what you need

Your students are going to GREATLY BENEFIT from learning these strategies they can use to calm down in the classroom and beyond! The SEL to teach and practice these strategies is an essential addition to your Social Emotional Learning Curriculum.

Calming Corners

A calming corner is an area of your classroom dedicated to giving students a moment to calm down. These corners generally include flexible/comfortable seating, cozy blankets and pillows, and tools students can use to help them regulate their emotions. These posters would be a wonderful addition for any calming corner! They could be displayed on the walls around the calming corner, reminding students of strategies they can use to calm down. Or, they could be combined in book form (either stapled together or put into a binder) for kids to flip through encouraging them to use which ever strategy they like the best!
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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Name several strategies for calming down when upset

  • Describe how to carry out a breathing, tapping or body-scan strategy

  • Identify when to tell someone what they need

Teaching tips

  • Copying the slide deck requires a Google account; make the copy before the lesson so the link opens in edit mode.

  • Posters could hang in the order the strategies were taught so students can match them to their note-taker entries.

Skills covered

  • Self-regulation — recording each of eight calm-down strategies on a note-taker during the lesson

  • Emotional awareness — naming what makes them angry as one of the taught steps

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