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Empower your students with lesson plans that focus on building essential social skills. These resources cover topics like active listening, conflict resolution, and teamwork through interactive activities. Use them to enhance your students' ability to interact positively and effectively with others.
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Movie-study lesson plan bundle for the 2021 film 'A Week Away', covering language/vocabulary, literary analysis, music & media literacy, cross-curricular math, and social-emotional learning through 30 structured activities.
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.
Teach essential communication and teamwork skills for grades 3-8+ through reproducible worksheets, role-playing scenarios, and project-based exercises aligned to 21st Century Skills curriculum guidelines.
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.
Our teens are navigating a world absolutely drenched in digital noise and all that inevitable friend drama, and trying to raise kids with rock-solid character in the middle of it all is a unique and tough challenge we face right here, at…
Back to School Friendship Study The Back to School Friendship Study is a teaching resource designed with the intention of helping kids in their initial academic years; specifically, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades, enhance their social and…
21st Century Skills curriculum resource teaching global-competency life skills (creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration) through a teacher guide, pre-assessment activities, student worksheets, and an answer key.
A lesson-plan worksheet for a PE tag game that builds agility, fleeing, and dodging skills.
A simple character-building/classroom-community activity encouraging students to notice and record acts of kindness by peers or adults.
Interactive SEL social-story booklet ('My Big Feelings') that helps students understand big emotions, identify anger triggers, and learn/practice coping tools.
Build critical-thinking and life-skills competency around your personal development through leveled reading-comprehension passages organized by Bloom's Taxonomy, paired with hands-on activities and word puzzles.
Teach young students a social-skills framework for deciding when it is appropriate to "blend in" (like a chameleon) versus "stick out"/stand up (like a giraffe) in social situations, including standing up against unkind or unsafe behavior.
A getting-to-know-you SCOOT game and related activities for the start of the school year, designed to help teacher and grades 5-6 students learn about each other through icebreaker questions, writing prompts, and a song.
A 5-day back-to-school activity packet for middle school classes covering icebreakers, building class agreements, procedures review, a short-story-based critical thinking activity, and a Socratic seminar.
Children's Books & Diversity SEL & Social Justice Lesson This teaching resource is perfect for educators passionate about fostering a sense of social awareness and emotional intelligence among their students.
How to use this book? Social stories are interactive books geared to teach students social emotional learning lessons. In these books, students become the main character of the story as they learn skills and strategies surrounding the SEL…
Presented in an easy-to-use format that is ready for use immediately, the Boundary Setting and Healthy Relationships Scenarios Worksheet is a collection of 40 pages of worksheets focused on Teaching S.E.L.
Free download Structured coaching worksheets to help adults (teachers/parents) explicitly teach and track children's social skills week by week, covering topics like facial expressions/body language, voice tone/word choice, and sportsmanship.
A social-skills lesson (slide deck) teaching students to define bullying and the bystander role, identify the four types of bullying, and consider how to respond to bullying situations.
Social-emotional learning (SEL) book-companion lesson teaching the difference between 'bossing' and 'suggesting', built around the picture book 'Cake & I Scream' by Michael Genhart.
A Social Emotional Learning (SEL) resource focused on the relationship-skills objective 'I can resolve conflict constructively,' providing daily bellringer/opener activities plus a stand-alone mini-lesson distinguishing constructive from deconstructive conflict, aligned to the CASEL framework.
A Christmas-themed team fitness circuit for PE class combining strength, cardio, and teamwork skills.
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 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.