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Helps students identify and label their own and others' emotions as a step toward emotional regulation, using discussion scenario cards and editable activity templates.
Free download A friendship-themed color-by-number card game that prompts students to discuss social skills questions (what friendship means, how to help/cheer up a friend, how friendships can end, etc.) while coloring in a picture.
A social-skills activity (from the 'Socially Skilled Kids' series) presenting scenario cards where students decide how to respond kindly to a peer's situation.
Social skills / life skills resource teaching children (especially those with social learning challenges) perspective-taking and the difference between being polite, being 'not quite' (blunt/hurtful), and lying, through discussion-based card activities.
Help students understand mental health, related vocabulary, and self-care/empathy skills in an age-appropriate way, as part of a Mental Health Awareness Week lesson.
A 2-hour high school ELA/Social-Emotional Learning lesson plan built around screening and discussing the film Love, Simon (2018) for Valentine's Day, exploring themes of identity, authenticity, coming out, and acceptance.
Making Comments BINGO Making Comments BINGO is a helpful and versatile teaching resource fit for educators keen on enhancing their students' conversational abilities.
Multicultural New Year Traditions: A Journey Around the World – Grades 3–8 Take your students on a global journey with this Multicultural New Year Traditions lesson!
A social-emotional learning activity that helps young children practice perspective-taking by identifying what characters in short scenarios might be thinking and feeling.
Build students' perspective-taking and empathy skills (understanding others' thoughts, feelings, and points of view) through a multi-format activity pack usable in person or online
The Perspective Taking Activity with Real Photos: What Message Are They Sending? This is a unique, engaging resource that caters specifically to educators assisting children grappling with developmental issues like Autism and ADHD.
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.
A social-emotional learning resource that teaches students to make informed social predictions ("good guesses") by observing facial expression, body language, and environment, rather than uninformed guesses ("goofy guesses").
Responding To Others BINGO - An Exciting Educational Tool Responding To Others BINGO paves an innovative path to teaching essential social skills in students.
Perspective-taking social-emotional learning activities that help students consider how others may be thinking or feeling in social scenarios.
A set of relatable, empathy-focused problem scenarios (STEM + Empathy = 'Stempathy') where students design a physical solution (e.g. using LEGO/generic building bricks) to help a character facing a real-world accessibility, fairness, or social-emotional challenge, paired with a discussion/reflection worksheet.
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…
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.
The Road to Revolution Diplomacy Game: Round #3 - The Incident on King Street This an engaging teaching resource that draws students right into the heart of American history. It transports them back to the pivotal night of March 5th, 1770—'The Incident on King Street' or as it was referred to by the colonists, 'a massacre'. Gameplay and…
2-hour movie-study lesson plan and worksheet built around the film 'The Search for Santa Paws' (2010), focused on story elements, kindness/empathy themes, and Christmas spirit.
Abandon Ship! Social Stratification Simulation Teacher Guide Intro: This is a great class period activity to introduce and/or demonstrate the pervasiveness of social stratification.
A collection of short stories illustrating a variety of human behaviors and ethical dilemmas, used to teach students to ask and answer questions, assess information, consider other viewpoints, make decisions, and set standards for ethical behavior.
Use thirty photo prompts to explore possible emotions and the clues that support an interpretation. The sets progress from faces to additional gestures and body language, with teacher questions for discussion and a slideshow version for display. Encourage more than one plausible reading and distinguish a thoughtful guess from knowing how someone actually feels.