90+ Free Social Emotional Learning Activities
Welcome to our Social Emotional Learning Activities page. Below you will find free resources – lessons, activities, and printables – in the following skill areas: Communication, Cooperation, Emotion Regulation, Empathy, Impulse Control, and Social Initiation.
These resources are age-appropriate for elementary and middle school students and are typically used in a classroom or a small group setting. And in most cases, if materials are required for the activity, they are items that you already have in your classroom or office.
As you will see below, many of the SEL activities and lesson plans include characters from our game-based, social emotional learning interventions. And if you are using, or plan to use the online games, these activities will reinforce the learning that occurs during game play.
Note: You may reproduce or reuse these lessons with students via other platforms like Google Classroom as needed, and if appropriate, please share this page on your school website so other educators may also benefit. We add new lessons on a regular basis, so make sure to check back frequently.
Categories of Emotions The list of emotions a typical pre-K child understands may be limited to happy, mad, sad, and ...
Impulse control, or self-control, is the ability to resist temptations, urges, or impulses in order to meet one’s goals. Students ...
An All About Me worksheet is a great way to kick off the school year as students explore self-awareness and ...
What are positive affirmations for kids? During these challenging and uncertain times, it’s important to remain hopeful, and positive affirmations ...
Active listening, which includes eye contact, appropriate body position and language, and the acts of asking questions, summarizing, and not ...
"I need a break!" Whether or not students say it out loud, this feeling can be palpable in the classroom ...
For obvious reasons, we hope that you use our online social emotional learning interventions to help your students practice and ...
This fun word association game will help you get ahead of conflict by helping students understand the connection between experience ...
Getting to know your students, and students getting to know each other, can be a real struggle, and this is ...
Morning meetings are an excellent way to help students transition from home to school and help them get ready to ...
What do Social Emotional IEP Goals Look Like? Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is valuable for all students, and while a ...
If you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, ...
How we choose to act in challenging situations heavily relies on what may be referred to as a moral code, ...
Students often get frustrated when a peer copies their speech or actions. But being inspired by others is naturally human, ...
We’ve rounded up some of our top tips and lessons that will help you create a classroom that practices respectful ...
Introductions seem simple enough, but are they? Pragmatic language, or the rules of who to say what to and when, ...
At some point, we’ve all looked in the rearview mirror and wondered whether we’ve said or done the right things, ...
It feels good to be right, but this need to be right can sometimes lead to conflict in the classroom ...
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