This SEL lesson helps students recognize the layers of feelings underneath an initial feeling, so that their thoughts and actions can stem from an informed understanding of emotions. A powerful, interactive exercise for the classroom.
SEL Lesson: Trust
This SEL lesson helps students define trust, understand its value, and recognize its presence or absence in different life situations. It involves both a worksheet and an activity.
SEL Lesson: Six Ways to Peel a Banana
This social emotional learning lesson, “Six Ways to Peel a Banana,” is a wonderful resource to help students think outside the box and find multiple solutions to a problem.
SEL Lesson: Committing to a Noble Goal
This social emotional learning lesson is targeted for secondary age students. It’s a wonderful exercise on forgiveness that teaches kids about values, how to identify them, and how they drive our actions.
SEL Lesson: Needle In A Haystack
This social emotional learning lesson is a great exercise for increasing empathy in a group. It allows individuals to share something unique about themselves with the group.
SEL Lesson: Optimism Wires
Children are born optimistic and tend to stay optimistic until about age 6 or 7. At that time, life’s difficulties tend to impinge and the door is opened for pessimism and learned helplessness. To develop a healthy mindset, students need to develop the skills of optimism. This worksheet is a fun, interactive lesson for students […]
Lesson: Daisy Conquers the Steps
How does it feel to learn something new? How do those feelings affect us in the learning process? from Christa Tinari. Written for elementary school, this lesson can easily be adapted to any age.