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Lesson package encouraging children to use kind hands and giving ideas of how to do this.
Why do you need this?
This lesson package can help teachers establish clear expectations for respectful behavior in the classroom, emphasizing the importance of treating others with kindness and empathy.
By focusing on the concept of "kind hands," teachers can support students' social-emotional development, helping them understand the impact of their actions on others and develop empathy and compassion. Teaching students about kind hands can contribute to creating a positive and inclusive classroom culture, reducing incidents of bullying and conflict by promoting empathy and respect for others.
How and when might you use this?
Due to the content of this lesson package it can be quite flexible in the range of ages it can be used with. A teacher might use a lesson about kind hands at various points throughout the school year, depending on the needs of their students and the classroom dynamics.
What is included?
· Lesson planning
· Teaching slides
· Worksheet
· Kind Hands Social story
Bell Let's Talk Day: Primary + Junior Teaching Slides and Flipbook
By Michellecurtis
"Bell Let's Talk Day: Teaching Bundle for Primary + Junior Students" – your comprehensive resource for fostering mental health awareness in young learners. This bundle includes both dynamic teaching slides and an interactive flipbook, designed to engage and educate students on this vital topic. The teaching slides are crafted with vibrant visuals and age-appropriate language, ensuring that the complex subject of mental health is presented in an accessible and relatable manner. Accompanied by an interactive flipbook, this bundle offers a hands-on learning experience that encourages students to explore their understanding of mental health in a supportive and interactive environment. Ideal for creating an open, inclusive dialogue within the classroom, this bundle is a must-have for any educator committed to promoting mental well-being among their students.
Racismo, Color de Piel, Antirracismo Collection BUNDLE PPT, Worksheets and Craft
By Class Plus
Este paquete esencial sobre Racismo y Antirracismo proporciona un conjunto poderoso de recursos para ayudar a los niños a comprender conceptos complejos como el racismo, el color de piel y el antirracismo de una manera apropiada para su edad. Incluye una presentacion en PowerPoint, hojas de trabajo interactivas y una actividad de autorretrato que fomenta la empatía y la auto-reflexión. Con estas herramientas podrás guiar a los estudiantes en la comprensión de la igualdad, el respeto y la importancia de defenderse contra el racismo.
¿Por Qué Usar Este Recurso?
Enseñar a los niños sobre el racismo y la igualdad sienta las bases para un mundo más inclusivo. Este paquete te proporciona los materiales para facilitar discusiones honestas y significativas sobre las diferencias raciales, la empatía y la justicia, creando un espacio seguro para que los estudiantes exploren sus propias identidades y aprendan a valorar a los demás. Estas actividades no solo fomentan la conciencia, sino también un compromiso con el respeto que los estudiantes podrán llevar adelante en sus vidas.
¿Qué Habilidades Desarrollan los Estudiantes con Este Recurso?
Este paquete sobre Racismo, Color de Piel y Antirracismo no solo enseña, sino que inspira a los jóvenes a construir un mundo que valore a cada individuo por igual. Perfecto para educadores dedicados a fomentar un futuro basado en el respeto y la inclusión.
Esta colección incluye los siguientes recursos:
¡Disfruta de la enseñanza de la igualdad racial!
Paperless Morning Meeting Slides With Videos Bundle
By Professional Development and Teacher Prep
Do your students need Paperless Morning Meeting Slides of Videos to work on their reading skills while creating connections and building relationships? Using a Video of The Day can lead to tremendous growth academically and socially. The videos can be utilized during your Morning Meeting time along with your other components.
The Video of The Day is on PowerPoint and can be used every morning during your Morning Meeting routine. All you have to do is bring up the PowerPoint each morning and play the video on the slide. This is a bundle of all of the videos for your morning meeting time. There are 162 editable and diverse videos spread out on three different PowerPoints.
If you would instead use a different video one day, you can delete the video and add your own!
Students will infer, visualize, synthesize, and create connections with the videos. Looking closely at a video is an important reading skill for students to develop to create inferences about what they are watching. Therefore, the inferences they are creating about the videos will lead to connections and inferences within their reading texts. Students who practice those skills outside of reading will most likely utilize those same skills while reading. You will need to teach students how to do that throughout the school year with the PowerPoint.
Additionally, the Video of The Day can be used for writing prompts or centers. Students can view the video and write a story based on the video. The students may also write predictions on what they think would happen next if the video continued.
“Morning Meeting is an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically.” -Responsive Classroom
“Morning meetings are an excellent way to help students transition from home to school and help them get ready to learn. In addition, these meetings can help you connect with your students, help students build relationships with each other, and promote an overall sense of community in the classroom.” -Centervention
*The video preview is only showing you a few of the video clips*
The topics and what is included:
Leadership Unit | Eight 75-Minute Lessons | Grades 7-9 | Lesson Plans & Slides
By TooBookedUp
Engage the leaders in your classroom by empowering them to make change! Elevate your students' leadership skills with this comprehensive 8-day unit designed for grades 7, 8, and 9. Each 75-minute lesson is meticulously crafted to engage and inspire, providing a robust framework for developing essential leadership qualities. Perfect for middle and early high school students, this unit integrates a variety of interactive and thought-provoking activities.
What’s Included:
✔️ 8-Day Unit of 75-Minute Lessons: Structured and detailed, covering all essential aspects of leadership including communication and team building.
✔️ Comprehensive Lesson Plans: Step-by-step instructions for each day, ensuring smooth and effective delivery.
✔️ Engaging Slides: Visually appealing and informative slides for each lesson to enhance learning and retention using Canva.
Engaging Strategies:
✔️ Discourse: Foster meaningful conversations and critical thinking through structured discussions.
✔️ Writing: Develop students’ reflective and analytical writing skills with targeted prompts and activities.
✔️ Reading & Annotating: Enhance comprehension and critical thinking with guided reading and annotation exercises.
✔️ Research: Teach students how to gather, analyze, and interpret data effectively. ✔️ Data Collection & Analysis: Practical exercises to help students understand and apply data-driven decision-making.
✔️ Presentation Building: Step-by-step guidance on creating impactful presentations using Google Slides or Canva.
✔️ Peer Feedback: Encourage constructive criticism and collaborative improvement with structured feedback sessions.
Perfect For:
Bring leadership to life in your classroom with this dynamic and interactive unit. Prepare your students to guide, influence, and inspire others with confidence and integrity. Purchase now and transform your students into the leaders of tomorrow!
By Spark Interest with Sara
Are you looking for a fun resource to get your young learners identifying feelings? This fun bundle contains 3 resource packs that introduce our young learners to the Feeling Monsters! The Feeling Monsters in this resource are so adorable your children will want to get to know them!
☀️This identifying feelings bundle includes so much! Please DOWNLOAD the preview and see!☀️ Save $ with this BUNDLE!
Resource 1: Identifying Feelings: Feeling Monsters
What’s Included?
✯Detailed product description with ideas & instructions on how to make the most out of these activities.
✯ Identifying Feelings Read Aloud PowerPoint Story ▻that introduces us to our 12 Feeling Monsters. These gorgeous characters describe what it is like to feel that emotion and use scenarios to further illustrate what is happening. They engage our children by asking questions to help make links to our own individual experiences.
▻Have you felt this way before?
▻What can we do when we feel this way?
The 12 emotions depicted are:
✯ 12 My Feeling Monsters Description Cards:
These may be displayed in the classroom to reinforce and remind the children of the different characters.
✯ My Feelings Monster Recording Sheet: (2 Versions - one with lines for writing and one without)
What is your monster feeling today? Why is your monster feeling this way? Draw and Color.
✯ All About My Feeling Monsters:
Create a take-home book about our feeling monsters for your children to fill in and take home.
*Cover page & 12 Feeling Monsters pages included*
✯ My Feelings Stick Puppets:
These feeling monster stick puppets are a fun way to encourage our young learners to develop an understanding of feelings and emotions.
✯ How Do You Feel Emotions Chart:
Display this chart in the classroom to encourage children to connect and check-in.
How do you feel today?
Resource 2: Inference Pictures with Questions
Get your children identifying feelings and emotions using these 14 fun monster inference picture cards. Each scene encourages children to identify common feelings and emotions using the clues in the pictures to draw conclusions.
Each inference picture card has a set of questions to get children thinking and talking.
Use these inference picture cards with a small group, in pairs, or individually to help develop empathy and understanding when it comes to other’s feelings and emotions.
The feelings and emotions depicted in the cards are:
▻Happy
▻Silly
▻Sick
▻Confused
▻Excited
▻Nervous
▻Scared
▻Sad
▻Sorry
▻Angry
▻Shocked
▻Calm
▻Interested
▻Bored
▻Frustrated
Resource 3: Feeling Monsters - Identifying Feelings Games
Are you looking for identifying feelings games to encourage your young learners to identify different feelings and emotions? These 4 games will be a great addition to your social-emotional learning curriculum. Perfect for our young learners, these vibrant Feeling Monsters will engage them as they practice identifying feelings through engaging in these identifying feelings activities.
✯ Game 1: How Do I Feel?
Three different ways to use these cards to reinforce identifying feelings. The children may act out the feeling, describe the feeling or match the Feeling Monsters.
15 Feeling Monster Cards included: (Color & B&W)
Happy Sick Silly Sorry Angry
Sad Confused Calm Tired Scared
Frustrated Excited Nervous Bored
Shocked
*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*
✯ Game 2: Match the Feeling (Color & B&W)
36 Identifying Feelings Scenarios
This game invites children to listen to common scenarios that may arise at school, at home, or on the playground and match a Feeling Monster to that scenario.
*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*
✯ Game 3: Feeling Monsters Bingo (Color & B&W)
2 Different ways to play!
We all love a quick game of BINGO! The teacher calls out a Feeling Monster. The children identify the Feeling Monster and shout BINGO when they have 3 in a row or when they have all the Feeling Monsters identified.
✯ Game 4: Feeling Monster- Go Fish! (Only in Color)
12 Feeling Monster Families
Each ‘Family’ contains 3 different colors (red, blue & green)
This fun twist on Go Fish encourages the children to work towards building a Monster Family. A fun way to reinforce identifying feelings with friends.
*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*
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☀️If you are looking to enhance your social-emotional learning curriculum check out my resources below☀️
Friendship Activities for Preschoolers:
Ways to Be a Good Friend
Friendship Scenario Cards
Classroom Posters: Friendship
More Than One Friend
Social Scenario: Problem Solving Task Cards
Preschool Teamwork Activities
Conflict Resolution Activities
Kindness Activities for Preschool
Gratitude Group Activities:
FREE Gratitude Activity for Preschoolers: 20-Day Gratitude Challenge Poster
Gratitude Activity for Preschoolers (PowerPoint Story & Activities)Gratitude Jar
Speaking and Listening Activities:
Activities for speaking and Listening: Early Years
Classroom Posters: Speaking and Listening Rules
Speaking and Listening Skills for Preschoolers
Identifying Feelings & Emotions:
Identifying Feelings and Emotions: Sadness (PowerPoint Story & Activities)
Identifying Feelings and Emotions: Inference Pictures
Calm Down Techniques for Preschoolers
Classroom Posters: Identifying Emotions
Identifying Feelings Worksheets
SAVE $ With this BUNDLE->Identifying Feelings Bundle
Empathy Task Cards
Empathy Sorting Activity
What's Wrong with This Picture:
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
What's Wrong With This Picture? Silly Scenes
End of Year:
My Preschool Memory Book
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Mental Health PPT PDF and GS BUNDLE, Reflection & Discussion Questions, SEL
By Class Plus
This resource includes an English and Spanish version of the Mental Health PowerPoint Presentation. These are perfect for your bilingual or dual-language classroom. This mental health resource is designed to build emotional intelligence and resilience in students. Each slide delivers essential mental health concepts in a clear, engaging, and age-appropriate way. Featuring critical thinking questions, this resource promotes dynamic classroom discussions and deep reflection, enhancing student engagement and comprehension. The essential thinking prompts also encourage students to connect personal experiences with the lessons, applying mental health strategies effectively in their lives.
By using this presentation, teachers can create a supportive classroom environment where discussions about feelings, self-esteem, and relationships are encouraged, ultimately helping students develop a strong foundation for emotional well-being.
The presentation gives students practical advice and strategies for managing their mental health. It teaches them to recognize and understand their emotions, the importance of positive thinking, and how to build and maintain healthy relationships.
The two resources I am including in this bundle are sold separately. Below is the list of what you will receive. You can click on each link to read a detailed description of each product.
This resource includes:
Formats:
Happy Mental Health Week!
Paperless Morning Meeting Work with Videos Part 1
By Professional Development and Teacher Prep
Do your students need Paperless Morning Meeting Slides with a Video of The Day to work on their reading skills while creating connections and building relationships? Using a Video of The Day can lead to tremendous growth academically and socially. The videos can be utilized during your Morning Meeting time along with your other components.
The Video of The Day is on PowerPoint and can be used every morning during your Morning Meeting routine. All you have to do is bring up the PowerPoint each morning and play the video on the slide. There are 60 EDITABLE and DIVERSE videos! This is part 1 of 3, and parts 2 and part 3 have numerous editable videos as well! If you would rather use a different video one day, you can delete the video and add your own!
Students will infer, visualize, synthesize, and create connections with the videos. Looking closely at a video is an important reading skill for students to develop to create inferences about what they are watching. Therefore, the inferences they are creating about the videos will lead to connections and inferences within their reading texts. Students who practice those skills outside of reading will most likely utilize those same skills while reading. You will need to teach students how to do that throughout the school year with the PowerPoint.
Additionally, The Video of The Day can be used for writing prompts or centers. Students can view the video and write a story based on the video. The students may also write predictions on what they think would happen next if the video continued.
This is also an excellent resource to use with your remote learners as well. You could assign one or more slides to their learning management system for morning meetings and writing or reading activities.
“Morning Meeting is an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically.” -Responsive Classroom
“Morning meetings are an excellent way to help students transition from home to school and help them get ready to learn. In addition, these meetings can help you connect with your students, help students build relationships with each other, and promote an overall sense of community in the classroom.” -Centervention
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A Personal Identity Project for Middle Schoolers SEL Digital Resource
By TooBookedUp
Description:
Embark on a transformative journey with "Discovering Me," a comprehensive personal identity research project tailored for middle school students. This engaging resource, crafted with a focus on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and community building, invites students to delve deeply into five key aspects of their identity: Name, Family, Interests, Character Traits, and Values.
What’s Inside:
Educational Objectives:
Customizable and Curriculum-Integrated:
Engagement and Support:
"Discovering Me" is more than just a project; it's a journey into the heart of what makes each student unique. It's perfect for educators looking for an 'assign and go' solution that resonates on a personal level and builds classroom camaraderie.
Valentine's Day, I love Myself Collection BUNDLE: PowerPoint, Activity & Craft
By Class Plus
Celebrate love in its purest form this Valentine’s Day with an inspiring collection designed to help children embrace self-love and confidence. With an interactive PowerPoint, mini-book, and craft, this special bundle empowers kids to reflect on their unique qualities, fostering self-awareness and emotional growth. Perfect for classroom activities, it encourages children to think deeply about themselves and their strengths, creating a heartwarming atmosphere of kindness and positive self-esteem.
Through engaging exercises, students will explore self-worth, express their feelings, and develop a deeper appreciation for themselves. This bundle goes beyond traditional celebrations, promoting kindness and resilience while fostering a positive and uplifting environment.
This collection includes:
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Valentine's Day I love Myself PowerPoint BUNDLE: Self Love Activity & SEL SLIDES
By Class Plus
This resource includes an English and Spanish version of the Valentine's Day: I Love Myself, PowerPoint Presentation. These are perfect for your bilingual or dual-language classrooms and schools. Encourage critical thinking and self-reflection with these engaging PowerPoint Presentations and Google Slides. This Valentine’s Day, a meaningful I Love Myself/Self-Love presentation helps kids discover that the greatest form of love begins within. Through thought-provoking questions and activities, students will analyze their beliefs about self-worth and explore how self-love influences their choices, relationships, and personal growth.
These slides are designed to help students recognize their strengths, fostering a deeper understanding of the connection between self-love, self-confidence, and a fulfilling life. Each thoughtfully crafted slide encourages reflection, guiding students to explore how much they truly love and value themselves. By combining self-reflection with critical thinking, this presentation offers a powerful tool to inspire meaningful conversations and deeper insights about the importance of loving oneself.
The two resources I am including in this bundle are sold separately. Below is the list of what you will receive. You can click on each link to read a detailed description of each product.
Remember: To love others, we must first love ourselves.
This resource includes:
Formats:
*Happy Valentine’s Day!*heck out these great resources!
Racism Skin Color and Antiracism PowerPoint BUNDLE with Discussion Questions
By Class Plus
This resource includes an English and Spanish version of Racism Skin Color, Antracism PowerPoint Presentation. This comprehensive educational resource simplifies teaching about racism, anti-racism, and racial justice, offering a time-saving solution for you. It equips students with a profound understanding of racism and the importance of promoting equality and racial justice from an early age. The resource includes critical thinking questions and reflection prompts that guide students in recognizing their role in fostering a more equitable society. By encouraging proactive engagement and self-reflection, this resource provides essential tools for addressing racism and advocating for social change, empowering students to contribute effectively to a just and inclusive world.
By using this resource, you will help your students:
This resource supports your teaching by guiding students to see the importance of their role in creating a more equitable society. It encourages a proactive approach to understanding and addressing racism, equipping them with the tools to make a difference.
The two resources I am including in this bundle are sold separately. Below is the list of what you will receive. You can click on each link to read a detailed description of each product.
This resource includes:
Enjoy Teaching Racial Equality and Anti-Racism!