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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provide printable desk name tags themed around social-emotional learning (SEL) coping skills, for classroom management and daily SEL check-ins.
A collection of social-emotional-learning (SEL) games and icebreakers for morning meetings, advisories, and community-building.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A multi-activity pack teaching elementary students about friendship qualities, social skills, and how to navigate friend relationships
Teach and reinforce 24 healthy ways to cope with strong feelings through a bingo-style game.
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.
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.
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…
SEL bingo game that reinforces practicing anxiety coping/calming strategies.
Interactive SEL social-story booklet ('My Big Feelings') that helps students understand big emotions, identify anger triggers, and learn/practice coping tools.
Provide a set of 10 SEL (social-emotional learning) activity mats for calming/mindfulness follow-up work, morning work, brain breaks, or counseling handouts.
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).
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.
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.