Dealing with Change

coping skills activity

Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation Duration: 30 minutes per worksheet Materials: Dealing With Change Lesson Instructions On your whiteboard, make a rating scale and label one side “Small change” and the other “Big change.” Ask your students to think about changes in their lives that have happened … Read more

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 … 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 … 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 – you can be just a little annoyed, or you can be boiling mad. In this lesson, students will fill in an anger thermometer with situations … Read more

A Gratitude Jar for Kids

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 … Read more