95 Free Social Emotional Learning Activities
Welcome to our Social Emotional Learning Activities page. Below you will find free resources – lessons, activities, and worksheet – 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 ...
"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 ...
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If you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, ...
In a normal school year, students expect to deal with change. Whether it’s starting a new school, trying to make ...
You can show an ongoing commitment to social emotional learning by recognizing students who demonstrate good or improving SEL skills ...
A great tool for having students reflect on inappropriate behavior is a Think Sheet. You can use it when a ...
When we think about emotional awareness, we typically focus on situations that trigger negative emotions. But it's also important that ...
Using the emotion faces lesson and printable worksheets below, you will help your students evaluate facial expressions and associate those ...
In this lesson, students will create a student strengths flower that highlights their positive traits, and this flower will be ...
Everyone feels angry from time to time, and it can be an overwhelming emotion. Like other emotions, anger comes in ...
In a previous lesson, we introduced the the power of gratitude where students identified one thing that made them happy ...
If you're providing remote instruction this year, you may have seem images where educators create a personalized virtual classroom that ...
This SEL scavenger hunt will help students focus on doing good deeds or random acts of kindness for others. You ...
Summer is just around the corner and there’s so much to think about! As you tie up loose ends on ...
Self affirmations are a great way to help build self esteem and overcome doubts. Instead of listening to the voice ...
There are a wide range of mindfulness activities for kids from yoga, meditation, deep breathing, or even blowing bubbles. In ...
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