Peppy Pals apps and books is a playful way to teach kids about empathy, emotions, cooperation, problem-solving and friendship – also known as social and emotional intelligence. In this app, five quirky animal friends go on exciting adventures and learn about emotions and friendship!
Peppy Pals Farm – Friendship Adventure
Join five quirky animal friends on exciting adventures and learn about emotions and friendship. Peppy Pals’ award-winning apps help children ages 2 to 8 learn about social and emotional intelligence without language or text. This app is available as a free download for EQ Children’s Day!
EQ for Relationships with Peppy Pals
The foundation of friendship is the ability to feel and relate to others, or in other words, empathy. So how can we teach kids about friendship? In this activity from Peppy Pals, kids learn how to talk about and express friendship.
Fun Coloring Book
This fun book has coloring for kids and recipes for kids and adults to make together. A wonderful gift from CosmiKids for EQ Children’s Day!
Parenting with EQ: Parenting Stress
Emotions get the better of us when we are tired, hungry, stressed, or isolated. Here are simple ideas to increase energy, emotional balance, and connection with your entire family!
Feeling Bodies Kit
In this kit, you will find a guide for teachers and parents, reflection worksheets for kids, and a poster! Includes two worksheets – one for kids 3 to 7 years and one for kids 8 to 12. The guide provides key insights on emotions as well as guiding questions for further exploration.
EQ Tic Tac Toe
The game that helps you learn more about emotional intelligence and become more aware of other people and your impact on them!
Teacher Ratings of Student Social and Emotional Competence
This chart helps teachers keep track of student’s social and emotional competence. Based on the Six Seconds Model of EQ, this resource allows teachers to track a student’s progress in the areas of self-awareness, self-management and self-direction.
Six Seconds’ Lesson Plan Template
This lesson plan template helps ensure your lessons are engaging, long lasting, and helping students think about the bigger picture. A great resource for educators who want to use social and emotional learning lessons in the classroom. For examples of already prepared lesson plans using this template, please see our cache of Sample SEL Lessons
SEL Lesson- Choices and Consequential Thinking
This social emotional learning lesson helps students master the skill of Applying Consequential Thinking. It helps them recognize that every decision has pros and cons, and gives them tools for evaluating the decisions they make.
Classroom Activity Model
Based on the Six Seconds model of Engage, Activate, Reflect, this resource suggests different types of activities for teachers.
An Introduction to Circles
An Introduction to Circles discusses how to use circles to encourage and practice group communication, relationship-building, empathy, democratic decision-making, conflict resolution, and problem solving. A wonderful resource for educators from the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.
Group Activity – Focusing on Others
Research says that when you are feeling down, performing acts of kindness for others will make you feel better than treating yourself. These slides take that knowledge and put it into action – a great small group activity for practicing empathy and learning new skills to help you thrive emotionally.
Relationships Key to Life Satisfaction
A nearly century old Harvard study has found that people with strong relationships live healthier, happier lives. These slides break down the findings and provide a roadmap for how to put this knowledge into action using Six Seconds’ KCG Model of EQ.
Intro to SEL Workshop
This slideshow workshop takes you through the Six Seconds Model of EQ and why the learnable, actionable skills of emotional intelligence are more essential for students than ever before.
Vital Team Workshop
This presentation workshop introduces teams to Six Seconds’ Vital Signs Model. It breaks down the importance of trust and engagement for team performance, and shows you a model for how to get there.
Reaction Roadmap Workshop
This workshop discusses the reaction cycle and what you can do to pause, deescalate, and reconnect. For anyone who wants to make more deliberate, purposeful decisions or escape old habits, this presentation is a wonderful tool.
Thriving with Optimism Workshop
This two hour workshop breaks down the history of learned optimism research, ways to practice optimism and teach it to children, and why it’s a vital component of life success.
SEL Lesson: Filling Your Bucket
This social emotional learning lesson gives kids the opportunity to fill each other’s emotional buckets. Interactive, engaging way to teach kids ways to fill someone else’s emotional bucket, and that when you do, you also fill your own.
Engaging EQ As You Learn
How can emotional intelligence help you learn ANYTHING? This 30 minute workshop module explores the 4 stages of learning through an interactive “Fortune Teller” exercise. Includes both a PPT with facilitator notes and a worksheet — written for adult audiences, could be adapted to youth.