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SEL Lesson: Filling Your Bucket
This social emotional learning lesson gives kids the opportunity to fill each other’s emotional buckets. Interactive, engaging way to teach kids ways to fill someone else’s emotional bucket, and that when you do, you also fill your own.
Posted June 21, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: Completing the Puzzle
This is a classroom activity on enhancing emotional literacy, using an interactive puzzle game.
Posted June 14, 2016 by in Education
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It’s What I Like, Lesson Plan
This social emotional learning lesson is interactive and artistic. It helps students explore big questions such as… When I support another student how do I help myself? Why is reciprocity important?
Posted May 3, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: Bank Accounts of Behavior
This social emotional learning lesson introduces the metaphor that a person’s reputation is a personal “bank account” of behavior. Students brainstorm in groups about what actions enhance or detract from our reputation, and why.
Posted April 12, 2016 by in Education
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Music of Feelings Lesson
This emotional literacy worksheet is intended for a classroom or training exercise. Play a piece of music, and have participants fill in one row of the sheet. Then, after 2 mins, switch to a new, different piece.
Posted April 12, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: Ideal Friend
This social emotional learning lesson helps students assess what makes someone a good friend, and what they can do to be a better friend to others. It helps students pin down the components of healthy relationships and how they can cultivate them!
Posted March 22, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: A Weather Balloon
This sample SEL lesson is designed to help students understand some causes of stress, the consequences of too much stress, and ways for reducing stress in themselves and others.
Posted March 16, 2016 by in Education
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Feelings with Milo
This colorful worksheet for kids and caregivers teaches key elements of emotional literacy. It can be used many ways, several suggestions included
Posted March 11, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: Layers of Feelings
This SEL lesson helps students recognize the layers of feelings underneath an initial feeling, so that their thoughts and actions can stem from an informed understanding of emotions. A powerful, interactive exercise for the classroom.
Posted March 11, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: Trust
This SEL lesson helps students define trust, understand its value, and recognize its presence or absence in different life situations. It involves both a worksheet and an activity.
Posted February 25, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: Six Ways to Peel a Banana
This social emotional learning lesson, “Six Ways to Peel a Banana,” is a wonderful resource to help students think outside the box and find multiple solutions to a problem.
Posted February 15, 2016 by in Education
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SEL Lesson: Committing to a Noble Goal
This social emotional learning lesson is targeted for secondary age students. It’s a wonderful exercise on forgiveness that teaches kids about values, how to identify them, and how they drive our actions.
Posted February 12, 2016 by in Education
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