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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20 SEL Games for Morning Meetings Back to School Fun
A collection of social-emotional-learning (SEL) games and icebreakers for morning meetings, advisories, and community-building.
Calm Down Corner or Take A Break SEL Visuals For Students
An editable flip book of calm-down strategy visuals for a classroom calm-down corner or take-a-break area.
Editable
'Inside Out 2' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 3 - 10
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.
Answers included
Bullying Prevention Vocabulary word search, scramble and crossword puz
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.
Answers included
Social Emotional Learning Unit: Persistence Activities
A social-emotional learning unit teaching persistence and growth mindset (mistakes help the brain grow, 'I can't... yet'), combined with language-reframing practice, group puzzle challenges, worksheets, and an emergent reader.
Gratitude
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.
Coping Skills Brochure and SEL coloring pages
Take-home brochure helping students identify and remember coping strategies for calming down, organized around a personalized name acronym and an emotion-intensity scale.
Anger Management SEL Strategy Wheel
A spinner-style wheel craft that gives students a set of strategies to choose from when they feel angry.
Mindful Breathing Activity
A one-page mindfulness activity that guides students through four themed breathing exercises to support emotional regulation and mental well-being.
Coping Skills Bingo
Teach and reinforce 24 healthy ways to cope with strong feelings through a bingo-style game.
Kicking Social Story
A short social story for children who kick when angry or frustrated, validating the feeling while teaching that kicking is never acceptable and offering calming alternatives.
Big Emotions/Anger | Interactive Book/Printable | Behavior Support
An interactive, personalized social story workbook ('My Big Feelings') that helps students (ages 7-12) identify emotions, especially anger, understand what triggers them, and learn/practice coping tools to self-regulate.
Editable
SMILE Music Activities
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.
'Orion and the Dark' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | KG - Grade 8
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.
Answers included
Self-Control SEL Game, SEL poster, and Mystery Mosaic Activity SEL Gam
A 'Stop & Think' board game plus a companion mini-poster and mystery mosaic coloring activity to teach self-control and emotional regulation to K-2 students.
Answers included
Coping Skills Jeopardy Review Game Show | Coping Skills Lesson
This engaging and interactive review game is the perfect way to teach kids different self regulation activities and calming strategies, while reviewing their knowledge of different coping skills! This no-prep coping skill lesson is the perfect way to teach and review different calming strategies that kids can use when they feel dysregulated. With digital…
Preschool Feelings Check-In Board – Coping Skills
Help young students identify and communicate their emotional state and choose coping strategies to self-regulate (SEL feelings check-in board).
Anxiety and Calming Strategies Bingo
SEL bingo game that reinforces practicing anxiety coping/calming strategies.
My Worry Jar
A single-page SEL worksheet that gives students a structured way to write down worries as a coping/mindfulness activity.
Freddy Frog's Frustration Story, Social Skills Story and Activities
Teaches young children a social-emotional coping strategy (a 'Stay Calm Plan') for managing frustration and flexibility in social situations, through a story about a frog and follow-up activities.
Anxiety & Worry | Interactive Book/Printable | Behavior | SEL Lesson
Interactive SEL social-story booklet ('My Big Feelings') that helps students understand big emotions, identify anger triggers, and learn/practice coping tools.
Editable
Tips to Calm Down Classroom Posters and SEL Lesson - No Prep
SEL resource teaching students calm-down and self-regulation strategies via classroom posters and a lesson.
Editable
Unwind Your Mind SEL Activity Mats
Provide a set of 10 SEL (social-emotional learning) activity mats for calming/mindfulness follow-up work, morning work, brain breaks, or counseling handouts.