Classroom resources
Promote empathy and understanding in your classroom with perspective-taking activities. This collection includes stories, discussions, and role-playing exercises that help students see situations from different viewpoints. By incorporating these activities into your teaching, you can foster a more inclusive and compassionate classroom environment.
Browse by lesson focus
Choose the topic or kind of practice you need.
Showing 1–24 of 47 resources
Show filters
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.
A movie-study packet for Disney's 'Zootopia 2' (2025) teaching media literacy, critical thinking, historical erasure/bias, and ELA skills through comprehension, vocabulary, character-analysis, and data-interpretation activities tied to the film.
Abandon Ship! Titanic Social Stratification Game is an immersive role-playing activity where students decide which passengers get a spot in the limited lifeboats as the Titanic sinks.
Perspective Taking is an important social skill for children to learn. Knowing and understanding others well enough to know what to say and what not to say, can be tricky for some children.
Do you find that there are many complicated (and sometimes unseen) conflicts in your 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom? From conflicts on the playground to having miscommunication on group chat, pre-adolescents have a much more difficult time managing their social world than they ever did before. This curriculum on Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation…
A U.S. Congress role-play simulation game teaching legislative process, political negotiation, and party politics: each student represents a state's U.S. Senator and must vote on 8 bills to satisfy their state's constituent preferences (scored points) and get re-elected.
A Grade 3 Canadian social studies unit teaching Canadian citizenship, the national anthem, personal identity, leadership, conflict resolution, and Remembrance Day through discussion questions, research prompts, and creative activities.
Explicit social-skills instruction to help students identify conversational behaviors that help or hurt conversations ("conversation makers" vs "conversation breakers").
A 3-4 session curriculum unit (approx. 1 hr 55 min total, excluding final assessment) that leads students through farm-animal welfare and personhood themes using a picture book, discussions, worksheets, and a writing assessment.
Critical Thinking: Social Media Comments – Create a Class Constitution for Online Behaviour This dynamic teaching resource is designed to address the timely issue of online etiquette and cyberbullying.
An SEL board-game activity that extends the picture book 'Do You Speak Fish?' by having students identify feelings and perspectives.
A 2-hour middle school ELA lesson plan built around watching the film Flipped (2010) that teaches dual-perspective narrative structure, character development, symbolism, and themes of judgment, self-worth, and seeing beyond appearances, framed as a Valentine's Day-appropriate first-love unit.
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').
A three-way role-play negotiation simulation teaching how labor unions, union leadership, and management negotiate contracts, set in a fictional garbage-collector strike scenario (Cleantopia's Waste Pros Union vs. City Sanitation Department).
This resource is a Reader's Theater Play that your students will enjoy! They will learn about Black History Heroes with this drama and enhance their acting skills.
Escape The Movies! SEL Boom Card About Friendship and Bullying Escape The Movies! SEL Boom Card About Friendship and Bullying is an interactive teaching tool designed for educators to engage students effectively about critical social…
A P.E./health movement-station unit that builds awareness of and empathy for children with disabilities by having students experience simulated exceptionalities through movement activities.
Let's Chat Conversation Cards for "Instead of Judgment, See Perspective" is a social-emotional learning resource that facilitates meaningful discussions to build empathy and understanding between students.
A writing and history activity pairing viewing of the film 'Selma' with structured writing about Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, aimed at building empathy and historical understanding.
This resource is a Philosophical Chairs Activity. This is an engaging and interactive activity that will allow students to expand upon their listening and speaking skills.
Build student empathy for refugees and asylum seekers through an interactive classroom simulation in which groups role-play the decisions faced while fleeing conflict.
Saint Martin of Tours – Finger Puppets and Backdrops This resource helps students learn about the story of Saint Martin of Tours in a simple and hands-on way.
A high-school history activity, modeled on a Holocaust Museum strategy, that personalizes the September 11, 2001 attacks by having students learn the biographies and outcomes of real individuals affected by the attacks.
In this editable product, there is an 8 Google slide that guides the social media lesson (read the slide notes). In the beginning, the students will have opportunities to turn & talk to one another about different questions related to…