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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.

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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.

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The Boy King (1986) – Martin Luther King Jr. 120' Lesson & Worksheet teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessRelationships & communication

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.

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5–8
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Effective Communication | SEL Openers/Bellringers and Weekly Activity teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessRelationships & communication

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.

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

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.

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Microsoft PowerPoint
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6–11
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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.

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1 pages
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Student Survey - Back to School Activity teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessRelationships & communication

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.

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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.

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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.

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SEL Curriculum | G3-5 | Yearlong Social Emotional Learning | 36 Weeks teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessCoping & self-regulation

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.

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3–5
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Communicating Tough Feelings-An SEL Lesson teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessRelationships & communication

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.

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6 pages
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Strategies to manage stress volume 1 teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessCoping & self-regulation

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).

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3–5
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Constructive Conflict | SEL Daily Openers/Bellringers and Activity teaching resource preview
Emotions & self-awarenessRelationships & communication

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.

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3–6
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