SEL Skill Printables
You can show an ongoing commitment to social emotional learning by recognizing students who demonstrate good or improving SEL skills.
Empathy
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
Wrinkled Heart Activity
Recommended Grade Level: Lower Elementary SEL Skill(s): Empathy Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Wrinkled Heart printable A Wrinkled Heart Activity Directions Prompt for Educators: “Words can be very hurtful, and we need to be careful of what we say so that we never wrinkle another person’s heart. If someone says something … Read more
Eye Expressions: How We Communicate With Our Eyes
Eye Expressions Activity Instructions Ask your students how they can communicate without speaking. They might say things like: smiling, frowning, crying, using eye expressions, hand gestures, etc. And then ask them, how can they communicate if they are wearing a mask? Explain that today, they will learn how to communicate … 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 … 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
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 … 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 … Read more
Acts of Kindness Worksheets for Kids
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Empathy Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Kindness Worksheets Activity Instructions Part One: This worksheet will help students brainstorm kind words to use when communicating with other people. Prep: Print this worksheet and share it with your students. Prompt: Start a conversation with your students about kind words … Read more
