Social/Emotional Activities and Worksheets - Dinosaur Theme
Help elementary students (grades 1-4) identify and name feelings, practice empathy, and learn healthy coping skills, using a dinosaur-character storybook and follow-up worksheets.
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Help students identify feelings, practice coping strategies and build positive relationships with SEL worksheets. Choose drawing, sorting or written reflection to match students’ ages and needs.
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Help elementary students (grades 1-4) identify and name feelings, practice empathy, and learn healthy coping skills, using a dinosaur-character storybook and follow-up worksheets.
An interactive, personalized social story workbook ('My Big Feelings') that helps students (ages 7-12) identify emotions, especially anger, understand what triggers them, and learn/practice coping tools to self-regulate.
Revisit feelings vocabulary through two different puzzle tasks. Students locate emotion words in a word search, then use prompts to name feelings in a crossword. Begin with recognition in the letter grid before moving to recall from clues, and compare the words appearing across the two pages after students have worked through both formats.
Social story/workbook teaching children (particularly those with autism, sensory processing challenges, or other developmental differences) to understand why they may use inappropriate/'bad' words and to learn alternative ways to express strong emotions.
SEL worksheet helping students identify and reflect on how their body reacts to different emotions and how they want to respond.
A teacher's guide plus scenario-sheet workbook that teaches cognitively rigid students (CBT-based 'predictive scenario mapping') to process schedule changes and disappointments without meltdowns.
A social-emotional worksheet that helps children identify and record personal coping strategies for moving from an angry emotional state to a happy one.
A set of reflective worksheets that help students identify and process feelings (happy, sad, angry, worried) by recalling a personal experience of each emotion.
Coping-strategy phrases — things like taking deep breaths, counting to ten, drawing something, yelling and screaming, or ignoring how you feel — are listed twelve to a sheet under two headers, Healthy and Unhealthy, across three sorting sheets. Students cut the phrases apart and glue each one under the column it belongs in, working through 36 different strategies across the three sheets without any phrase repeating. Because the wording ranges from mild self-soothing habits to more serious items like hurting yourself on purpose or getting revenge on someone, a teacher can select which of the three pages best fits their group and the sensitivity of the conversation. The set works as an independent seatwork task, a small-group counseling activity, or a whole-class discussion starter about identifying healthy responses to strong emotions.
A 59-page SEL workbook helping students explore self-regulation, bullying and staying safe, relationships and conflict, and emotional intelligence.
A reindeer-themed SEL worksheet packet teaching identification of seven main emotions, empathy, and healthy coping skills, offered in both color and black-and-white versions with a month-long journaling activity.
Provide therapeutic drawing prompts for school counselors/social workers to help students process and express emotions (trauma, anxiety, anger, sadness, coping) through drawing rather than verbal discussion.
A social-emotional learning packet for children with ADHD, combining an illustrated read-aloud story ('My Busy Brain') with matching worksheets on identifying emotions, executive functioning, and healthy coping skills, plus optional hands-on sensory/coping game instructions.
A brief SEL worksheet on the importance of friendship, prompting students to identify qualities of a good friend.
A social-emotional learning resource teaching students to differentiate problems by size/severity (1-5 scale) and who is appropriate to help fix each size of problem.
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.
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 social-emotional-learning sorting worksheet that teaches students to distinguish appropriate from inappropriate ways to end a conversation.
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.
Explicitly teach students to identify kind vs. unkind friendship behaviors, differentiated for K-2 and 3-5 ability levels.
The word bank supplies adjectives for illustrated sentences, including worried, shy, brave, sleepy and speedy. Students use the picture and the sentence together to select a word. Ask them to identify the clue that supports a choice, then distinguish a feeling from a description of how someone acts.
Word search worksheet activity that has students find vocabulary words related to happiness, kindness, and gratitude, practicing spelling and word recognition.
A social-emotional-learning curriculum for grades 3-6 using role-play scenarios and empathy-mapping worksheets to build empathy and social skills.
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.