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Provide a narrative-based writing and drawing activity (following a dog experiencing separation anxiety while home alone) to build creative writing, vocabulary, and social-emotional discussion skills.
An interactive SEL (social-emotional learning) presentation activity where students guess a coping skill hidden behind a grid of squares that are revealed one at a time.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) companion lesson for the book 'The Invisible Boy' by Trudy Ludwig, teaching students about inclusion/exclusion, empathy, and kindness through a discussion-station activity using invisible ink.
Help students get to know classmates and build classroom community through a friendship-themed scavenger-hunt bingo activity, provided in two grade-band versions.
Nine prompts ask students to connect music with feelings. Some focus on songs that bring out an emotion; others ask what students listen to when they already feel a certain way. The 3-by-3 prompt layout draws on students’ own music choices and can support individual reflection or a class discussion.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) calming/mindfulness activity where students trace a bicycle shape with their finger while practicing controlled breathing to self-regulate.
Help students make a personal set of coping reminders through a guided lesson and paper toolbox. Four illustrated strategy cards go inside the assembled template, followed by a writing-and-drawing response about using one tool. The directions include an optional breathing-video step to support introducing that strategy.
A HyperDoc (interactive Google Doc-based lesson) teaching students what stress is, how it affects mind and body, and healthy ways to cope with it.
A bingo-style game (multiple pre-made bingo cards plus emotion-word calling material) intended to reinforce identification and labeling of emotions for emotional-literacy/social-skills practice, per the seller description.
A collection of kindness-themed activities designed to build empathy, social-emotional skills, and a positive classroom community through writing, crafts, and bingo-style games.
A social-emotional learning (SEL) calming/mindfulness activity where students trace an airplane shape with their finger while practicing controlled breathing to self-regulate.
Color By Code: Good and Bad Coping Skills School Counseling Activity The Color By Code: Good and Bad Coping Skills School Counseling Activity is a powerful, hand-on educational tool that facilitates children's understanding and management of their emotions. It merges visually invoking activities with fundamental life skills teaching,…
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).
SEL matching card game where students match monster feeling cards and discuss times they felt each emotion, plus a reflection handout.
A card game (played like Apples to Apples) that has students match coping strategies to stressful school/life situations, to build stress-management skills.
Use discussion prompts to distinguish stressors students can influence from those outside their control. The lesson proposes a book-weight activity as a metaphor for accumulated stress, followed by an index-card reflection on possible strategies. Allow imagined examples and adapt the demonstration with books on a table when needed; the separately linked things I can and cannot control worksheet offers a related independent sorting task.
Teaches students the 'Trace and Breathe' self-regulation technique: students take a mindful moment to breathe while tracing a car picture with their fingertip, to calm down emotionally.
A social-emotional learning story teaching children not to spit at others, paired with strategies for expressing frustration appropriately, plus a coloring book companion follow-up activity.
A 6-station SEL companion lesson reinforcing the book 'Better Than You' by Trudy Ludwig, focused on distinguishing sharing from bragging and healthy friendship behaviors.
A partner dice-and-discuss SEL bingo game (file title states Grades 3-6) exploring stress triggers, coping strategies, and the body's stress response, with an accompanying answer sheet.
An emergent-reader booklet built around the sight word 'you' that teaches early readers simple coping strategies for anger.
A card game (played like Apples to Apples) that has students match coping strategies to stressful situations, plus two mindful-coloring pages.
Nine emotion words — happy, sad, angry, surprised, excited, shy, worried, frustrated, and scared — are printed in a grid, each paired with a blank face outline for students to draw the matching facial expression. The two-page file favors breadth of vocabulary over depth, naming nine distinct emotions rather than grouping related feelings, which suits a quick SEL warm-up or check-in activity. A closing credits page thanks the clip-art illustrator and includes a social-media prompt rather than additional content. The same emotion vocabulary can be practiced as a whole-class activity with an emoji bingo game that has students recognize feelings rather than draw them.
The Empathy or Not Empathy Game: An Educational Resource This unique game, modelled on popular TV game shows, aims to improve children's ability to empathise with diverse emotional states among their peers. It is an excellent tool for teachers in public schools and homeschools who want innovative ways of enhancing social-emotional learning. Product…