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Lesson 4: "Empathy" Complete Bundle teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessEmpathy & perspective

Lesson 4: "Empathy" Complete Bundle

Lesson 4: Empathy Complete Bundle Overview The Lesson 4: Empathy Complete Bundle equips educators with comprehensive learning materials, crafted to instill empathy in kindergarten through grade five students. This all-encompassing teaching resource is part of the Ethics4school's Stop Think Choose Character Education Book series. Educational Tools and…

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Pre-K, 1–5
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Teen Mental Resilience Strategies - Psychology Book teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessCoping & self-regulation

Teen Mental Resilience Strategies - Psychology Book

A 384-page psychology book teaching teens mental resilience through concepts such as growth mindset, neuroplasticity, emotional intelligence, cognitive restructuring, and mindfulness.

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384 pages
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6–12
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Social Skills Role-Play Scenarios & Empathy Building Sheets teaching resource preview
Relationships & communicationEmpathy & perspective

Social Skills Role-Play Scenarios & Empathy Building Sheets

A social-emotional-learning curriculum for grades 3-6 using role-play scenarios and empathy-mapping worksheets to build empathy and social skills.

Includes: Phase 1: Core Content & Theory (introduction and pedagogical methodology) · role-play scenario activities · Empathy Building worksheets

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3–7
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Figure out Feelings and Emotions teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessCoping & self-regulation

Figure out Feelings and Emotions

Helps students recognize and match basic emotions and feelings (happy, sad, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, calm, silly, tired, nervous) through an 'errorless' card-matching activity.

Includes: emotion cards for: happy, sad, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, calm, silly, tired, nervous · card storage labels/dividers

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Printable Respect Interactive Worksheet for Elementary Students teaching resource preview Free download
Empathy & perspective

Printable Respect Interactive Worksheet for Elementary Students

A social-emotional learning (SEL) activity helping students reflect on respect using their senses (what respect feels like, sounds like, and looks like).

Includes: 'Respect - Feels Like' page (x2) · 'Respect - Sounds Like' page (x2) · 'Respect - Looks Like' page (x2)

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Cut & Glue: Feelings teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awareness

Cut & Glue: Feelings

A cut-and-paste vocabulary-matching activity that trains fine motor skills and reading recognition of feelings/emotions vocabulary words.

Includes: answer key

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The Boy King (1986) – Martin Luther King Jr. 120' Lesson & Worksheet teaching resource preview
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The Boy King (1986) – Martin Luther King Jr. 120' Lesson & Worksheet

A 2-hour lesson plan and student worksheet package built around the 1986 TV docudrama 'The Boy King' about young Martin Luther King Jr., teaching how childhood experiences, family values, and encounters with segregation/discrimination shaped his character and future leadership.

Includes: 2-hour lesson plan (learning objectives, materials needed, Common Core standards alignment, content advisory, pre-viewing/viewing/post-viewing timeline) · vocabulary preview list (segregation, discrimination, prejudice, Jim Crow Laws, character, dignity, civil rights, integration, minister/preacher, protest) · guided discussion questions

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5–8
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Effective Communication | SEL Openers/Bellringers and Weekly Activity teaching resource preview
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Effective Communication | SEL Openers/Bellringers and Weekly Activity

A Social-Emotional-Learning resource (aligned to the CASEL framework) providing a daily mental-health check-in routine plus a week of bell-ringer openers and a lesson focused on the objective 'I can communicate effectively' under the Relationship Skills topic.

Includes: 'How to Use' explanation page listing resource parts (Mental Health Check-In, SEL Opener Teacher Slides, SEL Opener Student Workbook, SEL Lesson) · full list of SEL topics/objectives across CASEL competencies (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Responsible Decision-Making, Relationship Skills), with 'I can communicate effectively' highlighted · Mental Health Check-In instructions and student page

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3–6
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The Impact of "That's So Gay!" Lesson teaching resource preview
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The Impact of "That's So Gay!" Lesson

A discussion-based social-emotional/life-skills lesson (slide deck) addressing the impact of using 'that's so gay' as a casual insult, framed as a hate-speech awareness lesson.

Includes: title/definition slide (hate speech definition) · 'Video #1' and 'Video #2' slide placeholders (videos themselves not included/embedded in the extracted content; referenced only by slide labels) · discussion question slide on how teens use 'that's so gay'

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6–11
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Are You An Introvert Or Extrovert? Lesson With Kahoot! and Student Survey teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awareness

Are You An Introvert Or Extrovert? Lesson With Kahoot! and Student Survey

A social-emotional learning lesson introducing the difference between introverts and extroverts through a slideshow, a self-assessment survey, and group discussion.

Includes: 1-page 10-item survey · 1-page answer/scoring sheet · group discussion questions

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Microsoft PowerPoint
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6–10
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Kindness Calendar teaching resource preview
Empathy & perspective

Kindness Calendar

A one-page monthly calendar of daily kindness activity prompts for social-emotional learning practice.

Includes: 1-page 5-row x 7-column grid calendar listing 35 daily kindness activity prompts, organized Monday through Sunday

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1 pages
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Student Survey - Back to School Activity teaching resource preview
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Student Survey - Back to School Activity

A back-to-school survey helping teachers learn about students' personalities, learning preferences, interests and goals, per the seller description, for building classroom relationships.

Includes: 2-page survey with 26 numbered prompts including a learning-style checkbox item, name/grade header

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Pre-K–5
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'Elemental' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 3 - 9 teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessChoices & problem solving

'Elemental' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 3 - 9

A movie study built around Pixar's film Elemental (2023), using the story to build reading comprehension, critical thinking, character analysis, and theme discussion while touching science, math, and social-emotional learning connections.

Includes: Teacher Guide (7 pages) · Student Worksheet with 30 activities across 4 parts: Before You Watch, Comprehension, Character Study, Themes & Thinking Deeper (21 pages) · complete Answer Key with model responses for open-ended items (7 pages)

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3–9
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Changing My Thoughts Worksheet teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awareness

Changing My Thoughts Worksheet

Help a child recognize the connection between thoughts and feelings, and practice replacing a negative thought with a more helpful one to shift their emotional state.

Includes: portrait-layout worksheet (2 copies on 3 pages) with four fill-in boxes: current feeling, current thought, desired feeling, replacement thought · landscape-layout variant of the same four-box worksheet (2 copies on 2 pages)

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SEL Curriculum | G3-5 | Yearlong Social Emotional Learning | 36 Weeks teaching resource preview
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SEL Curriculum | G3-5 | Yearlong Social Emotional Learning | 36 Weeks

A complete 36-week, scripted Social-Emotional Learning curriculum for Grades 3-5, organized into 4 units of 9 weekly lessons each, covering self-awareness, self-management, empathy, respect, bullying prevention, digital citizenship, goal setting, stress management, growth mindset, communication, teamwork, responsibility, and decision-making.

Includes: Part 1 - Teacher Guide (~96 pages): front matter, scope and sequence, assessment tools, class observation record, editable family letter, 36-week pacing calendar, and 36 two-page lesson plans · Part 2 - Student Pages Unit 1: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Empathy (~110 pages) · Part 3 - Student Pages Unit 2: Respect, Bullying Prevention, Digital Citizenship (~109 pages)

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3–5
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PERSPECTIVE TAKING Comic Strip Style, Black and White Version For 3rd-5th Grade teaching resource preview
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PERSPECTIVE TAKING Comic Strip Style, Black and White Version For 3rd-5th Grade

A social-emotional learning activity that develops perspective-taking and problem-solving skills by having students build three-panel comic strips showing a social scenario, its consequences, and an alternative better response.

Includes: instructions for 3 scaffolded activity levels (teacher-led to student-generated scenarios) · comic strip scenario cards (at least 10, black-and-white) · 3-box comic strip response templates with thought/speech bubble and emotion prompts

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3–5
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Friendship Building SEL Skills Writing Challenge teaching resource preview
Relationships & communication

Friendship Building SEL Skills Writing Challenge

Combine social-emotional learning about building strong friendships with narrative writing practice.

Includes: intro/instructions page with extension ideas (illustrate as comic strip, build setting with Legos, act out story, create a playlist, make a poster/digital ad) · 'Create-A-Friendship-Story' choice board (color-in categories to build story elements) · writing page(s) with extra space for drafting

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2–5
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Communicating Tough Feelings-An SEL Lesson teaching resource preview
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Communicating Tough Feelings-An SEL Lesson

Title: Communicating Tough Feelings- An SEL Lesson Struggling to express tough feelings can be challenging for students, and it is a common obstacle educators face. The resource Communicating Tough Feelings - An SEL Lesson, provides valuable support for students of grades 5 through 12 as they navigate towards effective emotional expression. This resource…

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5–12
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The Release Box Emotions Lesson teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awareness

The Release Box Emotions Lesson

This resource is a The Release Box Emotions Lesson. This mini lesson will allow students to explore their emotions while reading a passage and completing a craft.

Includes: title/cover page only ('The Release Box: A Lesson in Letting Go' / 'A FREE lesson to help in dealing with emotions')

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6 pages
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Strategies to manage stress volume 1 teaching resource preview
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Strategies to manage stress volume 1

A worksheet-based resource teaching students to recognize physical, mental, and behavioral symptoms of stress and apply coping strategies (deep breathing, journaling, exercise, mindfulness, SMART goals, conflict resolution).

Includes: title/copyright page (French and English) · table of contents (pages 4-46) covering symptom-recognition and stress-management worksheets

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3–5
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Feelings Word Search & Color Activity | Printable SEL Game for Kids teaching resource preview
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Feelings Word Search & Color Activity | Printable SEL Game for Kids

A combined vocabulary and coloring activity practicing SEL/feelings words through a circular 'find and color' word search format.

Includes: 5 pages of circular word-search puzzles; extracted letter grids include recognizable feelings words such as SAD, HAPPY, ANGRY, EXCITED, LOVED, ANXIOUS, BRAVE, HUNGRY, CALM

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5 pages
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1–5
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Constructive Conflict | SEL Daily Openers/Bellringers and Activity teaching resource preview
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Constructive Conflict | SEL Daily Openers/Bellringers and Activity

A Social Emotional Learning (SEL) resource focused on the relationship-skills objective 'I can resolve conflict constructively,' providing daily bellringer/opener activities plus a stand-alone mini-lesson distinguishing constructive from deconstructive conflict, aligned to the CASEL framework.

Includes: Explanation/how-to-use overview of the resource and its parts · List of Topics and Objectives aligned to the CASEL framework (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, responsible decision-making, relationship skills) · Mental Health Check-In instructions

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Level
3–6
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