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, Sort & Glue-Blurt Out or Raise Your Hand? An SEL Sorting Activity
A one-page cut-sort-and-glue worksheet that has students sort short scenario phrases or pictures into two contrasting categories (raise hand vs. OK to blurt) as social-emotional-learning (SEL) practice.
Free download Printable Respect Interactive Worksheet for Elementary Students
A social-emotional learning (SEL) activity helping students reflect on respect using their senses (what respect feels like, sounds like, and looks like).
PROBLEM SIZES, EMOTIONS and REACTIONS Differentiated Activities For K-5th
A social-emotional learning resource teaching students to differentiate problem sizes (using a 1-5 or 1-3 scale depending on ability level) and to connect problem sizes to identifying and discussing emotions and reactions.
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Cut & Glue: Feelings
A cut-and-paste vocabulary-matching activity that trains fine motor skills and reading recognition of feelings/emotions vocabulary words.
Answers included
Color By Code | Qualities Of A Good Friend Color By Number Activity Pa
Social-emotional learning activity reviewing qualities/traits of a good friend using a color-by-code / color-by-number format.
Negativity Bias-A Positive Psychology Concept SEL Hyperdoc
An SEL (social-emotional learning) hyperdoc lesson teaching the positive-psychology concept of 'negativity bias' and strategies to recognize/counteract it
Free download Free Teaching Patience Lesson Plan for First and Second Graders
A social-emotional learning mini-lesson that teaches first and second graders about patience: what it is, why it matters, and where/how to practice it.
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.
"How Would You Feel?" Task Cards To Identify Emotions
Task Cards To Identify Emotions The How Would You Feel? Task Cards To Identify Emotions is an engaging teaching resource designed specifically for grade 1 to grade 3 students.
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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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.
PERSPECTIVE TAKING Comic Strip Style, Black and White Version For 3rd-5th Grade
A social-emotional learning activity that develops perspective-taking and problem-solving skills by having students build three-panel comic strips showing a social scenario, its consequences, and an alternative better response.
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Are You An Introvert Or Extrovert? Lesson With Kahoot! and Student Survey
A social-emotional learning lesson introducing the difference between introverts and extroverts through a slideshow, a self-assessment survey, and group discussion.
Answers included
Kindness Calendar
A one-page monthly calendar of daily kindness activity prompts for social-emotional learning practice.
Friendship Building SEL Skills Writing Challenge
Combine social-emotional learning about building strong friendships with narrative writing practice.
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.
It's Okay To Make Mistakes, Social Skills Story and Activity For Girls
Teaches that making mistakes is normal, how to recognize a mistake that hurts someone's feelings, and how to apologize using a STOP-LOOK-SAY method.
'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.
Answers included
Cut, Sort & Glue – Identifying Feelings Activity
A one-page cut-sort-and-glue worksheet that has students sort short scenario phrases or pictures into two contrasting categories (feeling word vs. matching face) as social-emotional-learning (SEL) practice.
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.
My Inside Weather – SEL Feelings Wheel Craft
An SEL craft where students build an interactive spinning wheel that links weather imagery to feelings.
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…
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.