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Support middle-school students with activities for understanding emotions, managing stress, building relationships, and making thoughtful choices. Choose reflection, discussion, or practical skills work that fits your group. Use examples students can discuss without requiring them to share private experiences.
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Teach students that it is okay and brave to ask for help when struggling with big feelings, using a superhero theme and a read-aloud mentor text as a launch point for a discussion and craft activity
Includes: background/rationale page on children's mental health statistics · mentor text summary/excerpt about superheroes coping with big feelings · step-by-step teacher instructions
No Prep Anger Management Bingo Game is a fun and engaging way to help students learn self-control, emotional awareness, and healthy coping skills. Since bingo is a familiar game, it's easy to set up and encourages participation while reinforcing important social-emotional learning concepts. I like using this activity during SEL lessons, counseling…
A 57-page self-regulation activity pack for K-5 students providing posters, visuals, a spinner game, and craft activities to teach and practice calming and coping strategies for use in whole-group, small-group, or individual settings.
Includes: Calm Down Strategies Poster (student-facing) · De-Escalation Strategies Poster (for the teacher) · Deep Breathing Exercises for Calming (shape-based visuals: star breathing, circle breathing, snake breathing, each with a specific inhale/exhale count)
An SEL lesson using a roller-coaster analogy to help students reflect on the normal ups and downs of friendship (feeling safe/connected versus upset/disconnected) and how to manage conflict.
Includes: roller coaster analogy/discussion slides · reflection question slides · roller coaster handout (3-things lists plus drawing)
Help students understand mental health, related vocabulary, and self-care/empathy skills in an age-appropriate way, as part of a Mental Health Awareness Week lesson.
Includes: 90-minute lesson plan with learning objectives and timed activities · student worksheet (5 parts: vocabulary matching, video comprehension, life-events-to-feelings matching, reflection writing, poster activity) · answer key (parts A-C; part D is open-ended reflective writing and part E is a group poster activity)
A social-emotional learning (SEL) activity book for children ages 6-9, pairing an adult-facing facilitation guide (psychological safety, co-regulation, open-ended questioning, recognizing when a topic needs professional support) with child-facing activities for identifying and processing emotions.
Includes: 000-My Emotions Explorer SEL Activity Book.pdf (45 pages, text layer)
Help students (ages 7-12) recognize and manage test-anxiety feelings around state testing, through a personalized social story with self-reflection and coping-strategy activities.
Includes: full-page social story printable · half-page social story printable · Google Slides version of each page (link provided in file)
Provide printable desk name tags themed around social-emotional learning (SEL) coping skills, for classroom management and daily SEL check-ins.
Includes: Printable desk name tags with coping-skills theme · Instructions page (print/laminate, cut out, write name, tape to desk)
A collection of social-emotional-learning (SEL) games and icebreakers for morning meetings, advisories, and community-building.
Includes: 20 individual game/activity pages, each with Social Risk Level / Difficulty Level / Prep Level ratings, Supplies Needed, SEL Skills targeted, and numbered step-by-step instructions
A movie-study resource built around Pixar's Inside Out 2 (2024) combining social-emotional learning with literacy, grammar, and math practice for grades 3-10.
Includes: Student Worksheet with 30 activities across 5 parts (9 pages) · Teacher's Guide (4 pages) · Answer Key (3 pages)
A bullying-prevention vocabulary practice set (crossword, word scramble, word search) that teaches social-emotional learning terms such as bully, target, bystander, upstander, and related concepts.
Includes: Crossword puzzle with clues and completed answer grid (14 words: target, empathy, respect, bully, witness, include, social, safe, and answers to across/down clues for cyberbullying, upstander, tell an adult, teasing, hitting/pushing, bystander) · Word scramble puzzle · Word search puzzle
Printable visual breathing boards (shape-based) intended to teach children self-regulation and calming breathing techniques, per the seller's description, for use in a calming corner or calm-down kit.
Includes: 59-page PDF, almost entirely graphic/visual shape-breathing pages with no extractable text layer content
A self-help/social-emotional reading book about the concept and practice of gratitude, explaining what gratitude is, how to prepare for and express it, and its benefits, with reflection prompts.
Includes: introduction to gratitude · examples of gratitude across life domains (relationships, workplace, everyday experiences, kindness, nature, learning, culture, self-reflection) · how to prepare before being grateful (10 steps)
A multi-activity pack teaching elementary students about friendship qualities, social skills, and how to navigate friend relationships
Includes: Wanted: A Good Friend poster activity (2 versions) · Friendship Book List handout · Friendship Word Search puzzles (multiple versions)
Teach and reinforce 24 healthy ways to cope with strong feelings through a bingo-style game.
Includes: 25 bingo boards (page content mostly repeated title text, not individually extracted)
A set of three short interactive music-and-movement activities (with accompanying audio tracks) designed to build social-emotional skills, rhythm, and gross-motor engagement through singing, movement, and freeze-dance games.
Includes: slide explaining benefits of music/singing · "Smile, Smile, Smile" song activity (+ audio track) · "The Join Along Game" movement song activity (+ audio track)
A movie study resource for the 2024 film 'Orion and the Dark' combining social-emotional learning (courage, fear, resilience) with ELA, science, and critical-thinking activities for grades K-8.
Includes: Student Worksheet (24 pages, 30 activities covering before/during/after viewing) · Teacher's Guide (7 pages) · complete Answer Key (6 pages) with model responses
Do you find that there are many complicated (and sometimes unseen) conflicts in your 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom? From conflicts on the playground to having miscommunication on group chat, pre-adolescents have a much more difficult time managing their social world than they ever did before. This curriculum on Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation…
Includes: Introduction & Methodology chapter · Chapter 1: The Architecture of Pre-Adolescent Conflict · scripted roleplay worksheets (referenced repeatedly in the captured intro text, not themselves captured before truncation)
SEL bingo game that reinforces practicing anxiety coping/calming strategies.
Includes: bingo board (3x3), US-spelling version · bingo board (3x3), UK-spelling version · blank bingo board for student-generated coping skills
Interactive SEL social-story booklet ('My Big Feelings') that helps students understand big emotions, identify anger triggers, and learn/practice coping tools.
Includes: full-page social story printable · half-page social story printable · Google Slides version of each page
Provide a set of 10 SEL (social-emotional learning) activity mats for calming/mindfulness follow-up work, morning work, brain breaks, or counseling handouts.
Includes: breathing/tracing mat (triangle) · squiggle-art drawing mat · grounding/anchor coloring mat
Free download An A-Z review challenge activity where students identify one emotion and one coping skill for each letter of the alphabet, aligned to Illinois SEL Standard 1A (identify and manage one's emotions).
Includes: Instructor's note page (standards alignment, usage suggestions) · A-Z challenge worksheet pages (up to 6 letters per page, 'Emotion' and 'Coping Skill' blanks for each letter)
Teaches students the 'Trace and Breathe' self-regulation technique: students take a mindful moment to breathe while tracing a chick picture with their fingertip, to calm down emotionally.
Includes: Trace and Breathe technique description · Trace and Breathe poster · colored copy
Free download An SEL resource of journaling and discussion prompts to help students who struggle with anxiety reflect, identify triggers, and build coping strategies, for individual check-ins or group/push-in lessons.
Includes: instructor notes for individual and group/push-in use · list of 30 journaling prompts · interactive-notebook heading inserts (cut-along)