Keep Your Children Safe
Hurt Tracker Math
Boost emotional intelligence and division skills with a three-question learning exercise featuring two imaginary towns that record when citizens hurt, forgive, or punish one another. Using division, scholars calculate each problem to...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Stressed Out Sally
Life changes may cause stress. Here, scholars identify stressful situations in a peer's life and offer coping skills to make for a better day. A short story, "Stressed Out Sally," provides pupils with a look inside a bad day. After...
Nemours KidsHealth
Stress: Grades 3-5
Two activities focus on stress—common stressors and coping strategies. In the first activity, scholars identify stressors and explore ways to keep stress away. To aid the process, learners create a poster and complete a handout...
Curated OER
Self-Portraits
Eighth graders create self-portrait showing value and emotion, and gather information about color and emotion through different handheld applications.
K5 Learning
Race Cars
Do you ever get nervous before a big event? A pair of race cars discuss their nerves before tomorrow's race in a reading activity that includes five comprehension questions.
University of Washington
Rewarding Yourself
Everyone experiences negative self-talk from time to time, but how can youngsters learn to take it easy on themselves? Use an activity that focuses on talking positively to oneself, including giving yourself compliments and spending time...
Curated OER
Portraits in Clay: Elementary Sculpture Lesson
It is lovely how this instructional activity incorporates the importance or personal expression and art history. Children create low-fire ceramic heads that express emotion or personal feelings. The entire process is laid out...
Curated OER
El subjuntivo con expresiones de emoción
The subjunctive is used in different cases. Introduce your Spanish speakers to the subjunctive when it's used to indicate emotion. There's a helpful chart that introduces the expressions of emotions and a short practice activity that...
Curated OER
Angry
In this emotions learning exercise, students use the large blank outline of a face to draw how they look when feeling angry. Students then complete this story starter: I feel angry when ...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Goldilocks Revisited
After a read-aloud of the story Goldielocks and the Three Bears, scholars gather into small groups to answer a series of questions. Peers examine the idea of smart decisions and identify three feelings of characters alongside three...
Transforming Education
Self-Efficacy Toolkit
A PowerPoint presentation prepares instructors for teaching learners about self-efficacy, a key competency of social-emotional learning. The 29-page presentation is designed to give administrators and teachers a deeper understanding of...
Perkins School for the Blind
Encouraging Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired to Express Their Feelings and Explore Imagination
Being expressive in a creative, empathetic, or imaginative way is not only fun, it builds good pre-writing and communication skills. Learners with visual impairments have a roundtable discussion session where several sentence frames are...
Social Skills Central
Don't Get Mad...
Pupils discover important alternatives to expressing anger and how to better manage their emotions through a collaborative discussion activity with their classmates. This resource includes nearly 100 (99, to be exact!) hypothetical...
Curated OER
Help the Upset Person Activity
Assess what self-help techniques your students know for dealing with upset emotions with this conversational activity. The teacher begins by role playing as an upset individual, using visual images as prompts, and then asks students for...
Curated OER
Cognitive Triangle Worksheet
What you tell yourself about an event can have a profound effect on what you actually do about it. Encourage learners to examine their thoughts, and how these thoughts eventually translate into feelings and actions, with a worksheet that...
Missouri Department of Elementary
How I Act Is Who I Am
A lesson centers itself around the topic of family roles. A whole-class discussion uses puppets and posters to go in-depth into the following character traits; caring, responsibility, respect, and cooperation. The discussion closes with...
Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Toolkit
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
Elementary School Counseling
The Day Jace Kelly Popped
Anger can creep inside and build up in all of us. Prepare your youngsters for this feeling by reading the story of Jace Kelly through this series of storytelling printables, and discover the strategies he would eventually learn to stay...
Curated OER
How Would You Feel?
Sixth graders put themselves in the shoes of aborigines who were displaced from their homes in the 1800s by Europeans who came in and took their land from them. They discuss the social injustices suffered by these people, and write a...
Curated OER
Lesson: Painting The Unknown
Finally an art lesson that incorporates the act of creating art. After analyzing the abstract emotionally driven piece, Blue Mysteries Near the Sun, No. 4, learners discuss feelings related to an anticipated event or to the unknown. They...
Positively Autism
When I Feel Angry
Everybody feels angry sometimes, and it can be hard to know how to handle such a big emotion. This story was written with a learner with autism in mind. It provides clear guidelines the child can follow when he is feeling upset or angry....
Anti-Defamation League
Social Justice Poetry
Learners gain insight into how songs and poems express feelings of injustice. They also learn about literary devices and types of poems and make a personal connection when they write their own free verse poems about injustice.
Curated OER
When I Felt...
Help learners build awareness of their emotions and what events can bring on particular feelings with a simple instructional activity. It begins with a sentence frame ("I felt this way when...") and also includes room for students to...
Curated OER
Expressing Yourself
In this self expression worksheet, learners read the personal expression statements and complete each one with expressions about themselves. Students complete 15 sentences.