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 curriculum. And if you are using, or plan to use the online games, these activities will reinforce the learning that occurs during gameplay.
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.
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"I need a break!" Whether or not students say it out loud, this feeling can be palpable in the classroom ...
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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, ...
Stop copying me! Heard this one before? Students often get frustrated when a peer mimics their speech or actions. They ...
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It feels good to be right, but this need to be right can sometimes lead to conflict in the classroom ...
Five Steps to Say You're Sorry When we say, or do, something that hurts someone we care about, a sincere ...
You can show an ongoing commitment to social emotional learning by recognizing students who demonstrate good or improving SEL skills ...
When we think about emotional awareness, we typically focus on situations that trigger negative emotions. But it's also important that ...
This activity, based on the book, A Wrinkled Heart by Tracy Hoexter, will help students appreciate how important it is ...
Understanding and interpreting body language is even more challenging in a time when we aren't able to see mouths due ...
Using the emotion faces lesson and printable worksheets below, you will help your students evaluate facial expressions and associate those ...
Self-awareness is a crucial social-emotional skill, and awareness of our personal strengths helps us build confidence and prepares us to ...
If you're providing remote instruction this year, you may have seem images where educators create a personalized virtual classroom that ...
This classroom scavenger hunt will help students focus on doing good deeds or random acts of kindness for others. You ...
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