Supplemental Resources for Emotion Regulation
List of Emotions: 135 Words that Express Feelings
The list of emotions a typical pre-K child understands may be limited to happy, mad, sad, and scared (Harter, S., & Buddin, B. J.), but as they grow, the list expands, and they develop a more nuanced vocabulary to explain how they feel.
Self Esteem Worksheets
What is Self-Esteem? In their paper, Portraits of the Self, published in 2003, Sedikides and Gress defined self-esteem as an “individual’s perception or subjective appraisal of one’s own self-worth, one’s feelings of self-respect and self-confidence and the extent to which the individual holds positive or negative views about self.” Self-esteem is not only a reflection of one’s self-worth and confidence but also plays a crucial role in shaping one’s overall mental well-being and resilience in ... Read more
SEL Check In
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation Duration: Variable Materials: Online access via a web browser. You can sign up for a free educator account here. How Students Use The Online SEL Check In Each day your student logs in to their Centervention account, they will be greeted by Principal Howard, and she will ask them “How are you feeling today?” The student will then see an open sticker book where they ... Read more
Cool Down Corner
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation Duration: Variable Materials: Online access via a web browser. You can sign up for a free educator account here. Cool Down Corner Access Students may access the Cool Down Corner (CDC) in one of two ways: Visually, the room has an exit door so students can return to their assigned intervention, a game console to use for brain breaks, wallpaper and various furniture that can be customized, ... Read more
Social Emotional IEP Goals
Social Emotional IEP Goal Bank We understand that you want to provide your students with the greatest possible chance for success in meeting their IEP goals. To help out, we’ve assembled a list of 10 frequently cited Social Emotional IEP goals as well as actionable objectives to include with them. Best of all, we’ve linked ready to go lessons and printables to each objective and provide additional resource suggestions to extend learning, giving you time ... Read more
Anger Iceberg
Recommended Grade Level: Upper Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation and Impulse Control Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Anger Iceberg Worksheet PDF (Available when logged in to our Centervention educator account). Anger Iceberg Lesson Instructions An Anger Iceberg lesson is a great way to teach students about managing their emotions and understanding the underlying causes of their anger. Here are the four steps: Introduce the Anger Iceberg Start by explaining the idea of an anger ... Read more
Coping Skills For Anxiety
Coping Skills For Anxiety For Adults Lessons to Help Students Overcome Anxiety To help you assist your students in dealing with anxiety, we’ve created a series of activities, lessons, and worksheets. Many of these free lessons include characters and scenarios from our online SEL interventions, but you can use them with or without the online programs.
Feelings Wheel
The Feelings Wheel is a tool created by Gloria Wilcox in 1982 for teens and adults seeking to better understand and explain their emotions. This unique circular design allows users to navigate and explore their feelings, moving from broader categories to more specific emotions, thereby fostering emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and effective communication.
Brain Breaks For Kids
How Do Kids Take a Brain Break? It can be a good idea to intentionally plan a brain break mid-lesson, roughly every 20-30 minutes, though frequency can vary by age. When you plan ahead, you may avoid the slump of disengagement and can also seize an opportunity to get creative with the activity. There are three general styles of brain breaks that all apply to the end goal of providing brief respite from rigorous learning ... Read more
SEL Books
For obvious reasons, we hope that you use our online social emotional learning interventions to help your students practice and improve their social emotional skills at their own pace; however, we know that it helps to reinforce learning with additional resources like printables, worksheets, group activities, and SEL books and games.
Self Care For Teachers
Recommended Grade Level: Adults SEL Skill(s): Multiple Duration: Over the Summer Materials: 5 Tips for Summer Self Care for Teachers Additional Resources
Dealing with Change
In this lesson, we will explore some of the changes students may be experiencing and how to deal with these changes more effectively.
SEL Skill Printables
You can show an ongoing commitment to social emotional learning by recognizing students who demonstrate good or improving SEL skills.
Think Sheet: Behavior Reflection Exercise
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Think Sheet Instructions Additional Resources
Emotional Awareness: What Makes Me Happy
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation, Empathy Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Emotional Awareness Lesson Directions Ask your students to think about the things that make them happy. A few examples you can share as prompts are: For your younger students, ask each of them to write down 4 things inside of the puzzle pieces on their worksheet. After they have listed the things that make them happy, have them cut out the pieces ... Read more
Emotion Faces Worksheet
Directions for Emotion Faces Lesson Print out and provide a worksheet to each of your students, or if you are using the lesson remotely, please send them the typable PDF. On the first page, we have a list of 9 feeling words that your students will use to describe each of the 9 image pairs. We have completed an example at the bottom of the first page where the two characters are “Angry,” and we ... Read more
Student Strengths Lesson
Directions for Student Strengths Lesson Preparation If you will be using this lesson in person, you should print out a sheet for each student and provide a pen or pencil. There is a black-and-white version of the worksheet if you would like to have students also color in the flower or you can use the pre-colored version of the worksheet. Note: you will only need to provide one flower page per student. If you want ... Read more
Anger Thermometer Lesson and Printable
Everyone feels angry from time to time, and it can be an overwhelming emotion. Like other emotions, anger comes in different strengths or degrees.
A Gratitude Jar for Kids
Find a Suitable Gratitude Jar An empty spaghetti sauce, pickle, or salsa jar will work well as will many jars that get tossed into the recycling. And if the jar has a label, which it probably will, soaking the jar in water overnight will make it much easier to remove the label. Note: If you or your students don’t have a jar, use an empty cup to get started, and when you have a jar, ... Read more
How to Create a Bitmoji Classroom for SEL
If you’re providing remote instruction this year, you may have seem images where educators create a personalized virtual classroom that they share with students during online meetings. These classroom images are easy to make and they help students feel more connected even when they are learning from home. In this tutorial, we’ll provide step-by-step directions for how to create a Bitmoji Classroom and we’ll use a variety of posters and books focused on social emotional ... Read more
SEL Classroom Scavenger Hunt
This SEL classroom scavenger hunt will help students focus on doing good deeds or random acts of kindness for others. You can choose to give a reward for good deeds completed, or even better, have the reward be feeling good for doing something nice for others! Examples from the classroom scavenger hunt include: There’s no telling what simple random acts of kindness will do for someone else. So encourage your students to focus on completing ... Read more
Summer Worksheets for Social Emotional Learning
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation Duration: Over the Summer Materials: Chart paper Sticky notes Writing tools Summer Sendoff Printable Summer Worksheets: Instructions for Educators Lesson Prompt: Prompt: Gather students and say, “The year is almost done! You’ve made a lot of learning and growth. What is something that challenged you this year?” As you take answers, invite students who may have experienced similar experiences to give a thumbs up to ... Read more
Affirmation Cards for Kids
Self affirmations are a great way to help build self-esteem and overcome doubts. Instead of listening to the voice in our head saying “I can’t,” we focus on words that create a positive mindset and the confidence to keep trying. Helping our students to pay attention to their inner voice and concentrate on positive thoughts is something we’ve discussed in a previous lesson. In this lesson, we’ll expand that idea of positive thoughts by first ... Read more
Mindfulness Activities for Kids
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