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A grades 1-2 team-building resource ('Adventures in Team Building') of 60 short cooperative games and activities organized by subject area (language arts, math, science, social studies, fine arts) to build classroom community and problem-solving skills.
Start the school year with a fun and meaningful activity that helps your students share about themselves in a creative way! This All About Me Bag resource "Secret Mission Bag" is a perfect companion to your first week of school, morning…
The puzzle-shaped response pages invite students to share favorite things, strengths, feelings and future interests through short responses or drawings. Use the activity early in the school year, then invite students to share details they are comfortable discussing. Completed pages can support introductions or a classroom display.
Students create an introductory rainbow by writing personal facts and preferences on strips beneath a name cloud. The templates include prompts for age, birthday, food, color, siblings and pets, with glue guides for assembly. Read the categories together before children write, color and cut, then join the pieces into a display that shares their chosen details.
Introduce yourself through an art project built around a T-shirt outline. Two prompt layouts provide sections for drawings about favorites, interests, and identity, with sample views showing how responses fit the design. Invite students to explain a chosen drawing when sharing their finished shirt.
Start the school year with a fun and meaningful activity your students will remember, All About My Name ! This resource is a great way to help students open up, share their stories, and learn about each other on the very first day.
Managing anger can be challenging for children. This bingo game provides a unique and engaging approach for teaching calming strategies to help children handle frustrating emotions.
Managing anger appropriately is a vital skill for children to develop. This interactive cut and stick activity creatively builds positive behavior choices using engaging picture sorting.
In this 7 slide Google Slideshow, you have a lesson that is low prep and engaging. Students will get hooked first by a short video about an ant getting trapped in a pen circle. There are many discussion prompts.
Give students a hands-on fall-themed craft (an assembled spinner wheel) for identifying and naming emotions as part of an SEL feelings check-in.
A 146-page multicultural education curriculum book of thematic units for teachers to build student empathy, inclusivity, and appreciation of human differences (disability, prejudice reduction, women's contributions, immigration, civic action).
A 45-minute lesson plan teaching elementary students about the history of April Fool's Day while establishing rules for kind, harmless pranks and building media-literacy/critical-thinking skills.
April Morning Meetings: A Resource Review An April Morning Meetings is a versatile teaching resource, providing 27 unique activities for primary educators to employ throughout the month of April.
A hypothetical Arctic plane crash gives students a shared problem for practicing discussion and consensus. The slides move the class from an individual item ranking into small-group decisions, then a score sheet supports comparison with the guide’s ranking. Use the reflection questions to examine how students shared time, explained priorities, and responded to different views.
The scenario asks students to rank twelve items after an imagined crash in northern Canada, first independently and then in small groups. A score sheet and instructor ranking support comparison of individual and group decisions. Allow substantial time for discussion, then use the reflection questions to examine how the group reached agreement and what changed. This is a classroom team-building scenario, not practical survival instruction.
An SEL icebreaker game to help students get to know each other, e.g. at the start of the school year.
A published collection of group icebreaker activities (titles A-C) to help group members get acquainted and build team comfort through active, non-threatening exercises.
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning H through J) for building group cohesion, self-awareness, and communication skills.
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning K through P) for building group cohesion, communication and cooperation.
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning P through S) for building group cohesion, goal-setting skills, and positive peer relationships.
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning S through U) for building group cohesion, problem-solving, and collaborative storytelling.
Build Classroom Community During the First Week of School Help first grade students feel confident, welcomed, and excited about learning with this engaging Back to School All About Me Craft and Activity Workbook. Designed specifically for the first days and first week of school, this resource combines creativity, writing,…
Back To School Audio Book - An Innovative Educational Tool The Back To School Audio Book is a meticulously designed product for educators, comprising public school teachers and homeschoolers.
Back to School Friendship Study The Back to School Friendship Study is a teaching resource designed with the intention of helping kids in their initial academic years; specifically, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades, enhance their social and…