SEL: GRAPES Mindfulness Breathing Calming Activity
Teaches students the 'Trace and Breathe' self-regulation technique: students take a mindful moment to breathe while tracing a grapes picture with their fingertip, to calm down emotionally.
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5 Finger Breathing Calm-Down Posters – Set of 5
A set of 5 printable calm-down space signs/posters, each prompting students to use the 5-finger-breathing calming strategy.
SEL: CAT Mindfulness Breathing Calming Activity
Teaches students the 'Trace and Breathe' self-regulation technique: students take a mindful moment to breathe while tracing a cat picture with their fingertip, to calm down emotionally.
90' Lesson on The Five Senses
90-minute SEL-integrated lesson teaching the five senses to Grades 1-3, combining a video, guided discussion, five small-group hands-on activities (one per sense), and an SEL reflection circle.
Answers included
Healthy Versus Unhealthy Friendships SEL PowerPoint And Game
Teach students to distinguish healthy from unhealthy friendship behaviors using a stoplight (red/yellow/green) framework.
SEL: CARROT Mindfulness Breathing Calming Activity
A mindfulness calm-down activity in which students trace a carrot-shaped image while practicing a breathing routine.
Friendship First Aid Kit-An SEL activity to help students repair friendship problems
Give students a concrete, symbolic tool (a craft 'first aid kit') for remembering strategies to repair friendship problems.
SEL: ELEPHANT Mindfulness Breathing Calming Activity
Teaches students the 'Trace and Breathe' self-regulation technique: students take a mindful moment to breathe while tracing an elephant picture with their fingertip, to calm down emotionally.
Free download Social Skills Story and Activities | If Someone Is Bothering Me
Teaches students appropriate strategies for responding when someone is bothering them, contrasting acceptable coping responses with unacceptable reactions.
SEL: FLOWERS Mindfulness Breathing Calming Activity
Teaches students the 'Trace and Breathe' self-regulation technique: students take a mindful moment to breathe while tracing a flower picture with their fingertip, to calm down emotionally.
Social-Emotional Emergent Reader: Distractions
A black-and-white social-emotional emergent reader that helps young students recognize common classroom distractions and learn self-regulation strategies to refocus.
Emotions Activity Pack 1
An SEL activity pack (by 'Socially Skilled Kids') teaching students to understand emotions and their triggers, including a matching card game, trigger-identification worksheets, discussion questions, and a group perspective-taking activity ('The Rope Activity').
How Is My Engine Running? A Car SEL Lesson On Self-Regulation
Introduces a self-regulation (SEL) analogy comparing a student's emotional state to a car engine; the scanned page directs the user to an external Google Slides deck for the actual lesson content.
Coping Skills Bingo – Mindfulness & SEL Game
Dozens of uniquely arranged coping-skills bingo cards pair a 5-by-5 grid of self-regulation strategies -- breathe deep, count 1 to 10, hug a toy, squeeze ball, talk to someone, take a break -- with a matching set of calling cards a teacher reads aloud to run the game, plus a free-space center square on every card. An included how-to-use guide walks teachers through preparing and laminating materials, distributing a card and chips to each player, explaining horizontal, vertical, and diagonal winning patterns, and calling out items one at a time from the shuffled calling cards. A separate bingo-marker page supplies a printable chip or token sheet to cover called squares as they come up. The activity doubles as a bingo game and a mindfulness/SEL vocabulary review, since students must recognize and recall each coping strategy by name as it's called.
Feelings Journal Elementary | Managing and Expressing Feelings | Coping Skills for Elementary
An SEL emotions flipbook/journal helping elementary students identify feelings and triggers and practice coping skills.
Emotions Bingo
Bingo game teaching emotion vocabulary by matching an emotion word/face called out by the teacher to words on illustrated bingo boards.
Do You Speak Fish? An SEL Book Extension Activity
An SEL board-game activity that extends the picture book 'Do You Speak Fish?' by having students identify feelings and perspectives.
Lilo & Stitch Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 4 - 8
A movie-study resource built around Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002), teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, character/theme analysis, data reading, and creative writing tied to the film.
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Problem Solving Behaviors | Differentiated Activities For K-5th Grade
A social-emotional learning resource teaching students to recognize when they have a problem and use helpful strategies (staying calm, using appropriate behavior) to solve it or let it go, differentiated for K-2 and grades 3-5.
Editable
Positive Self-Talk Poster and Worksheet
A poster and worksheet set teaching the benefits of positive self-talk and helping students practice generating their own positive self-talk statements.
Kindergarten Emotions PowerPoint | Social Emotional Learning Feelings
A PowerPoint-based SEL (Social Emotional Learning) activity that helps young learners identify, name, and talk about their feelings, building emotional vocabulary for morning meetings and classroom discussions.
'Big Hero 6' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 3 - 9
A cross-curricular movie-study lesson pack built around Disney's 'Big Hero 6' (2014), combining English/grammar, STEM (scientific method, engineering design process, tech ethics), math/data, reading/theme analysis, and social-emotional learning.
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'Out of my Mind' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 5 - 9
A movie-study resource for the 2024 film adaptation of 'Out of My Mind' (based on Sharon M. Draper's novel), teaching empathy, inclusion, disability awareness, and communication through 30 activities.
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Emotions I.D | Differentiated SEL Activities
Helps students identify and label their own and others' emotions as a step toward emotional regulation, using discussion scenario cards and editable activity templates.
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