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: Worksheet for younger students (in person, or remote) Glue, paste, or tape Scissors Worksheet for older students Emotional Awareness Lesson Directions Ask your students to think about the things that make them happy. A few examples you … Read more
Wrinkled Heart Activity
Recommended Grade Level: Lower Elementary SEL Skill(s): Empathy Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Wrinkled Heart printable Wrinkled Heart Lesson 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 mean … Read more
Eye Expressions: How We Communicate With Our Eyes
Directions for Eye Expressions Activity Introducing the lesson 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 … 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
Classroom Scavenger Hunt
This 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 worksheet include: … Read more
Acts of Kindness for Kids
Part Two: These worksheets will help students translate their ideas into action. The two worksheets are: A brainstorming worksheet to help them think about acts of kindness and the people they care about A worksheet with cut-outs they can use to create notes to brighten someone’s day Instructions: Print out … Read more
Social Emotional Learning Journal
Additional Resources Books Start Where You Are: A Journal for Self-Exploration Me and My Feelings: A Kids’ Guide to Understanding and Expressing Themselves by NBCT Vanessa Green Allen, M.Ed. Anxious Ninja: A Children’s Book About Managing Anxiety and Difficult Emotions by Mary Nhin and Jelena Stupar