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.
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A social-emotional-learning curriculum for grades 3-6 using role-play scenarios and empathy-mapping worksheets to build empathy and social skills.
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.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) activity helping students reflect on respect using their senses (what respect feels like, sounds like, and looks like).
A cut-and-paste vocabulary-matching activity that trains fine motor skills and reading recognition of feelings/emotions vocabulary words.
An SEL (social-emotional learning) hyperdoc lesson teaching the positive-psychology concept of 'negativity bias' and strategies to recognize/counteract it
A set of word searches serving as companion activities for each of the 10 lesson modules in Ethics4School's 'Stop Think Choose' character education book, reinforcing social-emotional learning vocabulary tied to each module's theme.
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.
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.
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.
A social-emotional learning lesson introducing the difference between introverts and extroverts through a slideshow, a self-assessment survey, and group discussion.
A one-page monthly calendar of daily kindness activity prompts for social-emotional learning practice.
A back-to-school survey helping teachers learn about students' personalities, learning preferences, interests and goals, per the seller description, for building classroom relationships.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Combine social-emotional learning about building strong friendships with narrative writing practice.
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…
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.
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).
A combined vocabulary and coloring activity practicing SEL/feelings words through a circular 'find and color' word search format.
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.
A tri-fold self-care brochure that introduces students to goal setting, gratitude, mindful coloring, breathing strategies, and positive affirmations for social-emotional learning.
Help students identify bullying and develop conflict-resolution and coping strategies through structured worksheet activities and teacher-led discussion.