Elementary School Classroom Community Lesson

Looking for a versatile and engaging resource to kickstart your classroom each day? This comprehensive set of 50 check-in slides is perfect for any subject area, advisory periods, or as conversation starters, bell ringers, or SEL activities. These slides are designed to foster reflection, build community, and create meaningful conversations in your classroom, all while being easy to use and adaptable to your needs.

Product Features:

• 50 Unique Check-In Slides: With a wide variety of themes including emojis, weather, animals, colors, songs, and more, these slides ensure that your students start the day reflecting on their emotions, sharing their thoughts, and connecting with their peers.
• Flexible Use: Whether you're teaching math, language arts, science, or social studies, these slides can be seamlessly integrated into any lesson. They are also perfect for advisory periods, morning meetings, or as part of your SEL (Social Emotional Learning) curriculum.
• Year-Round Utility: With 50 unique slides, this resource can be used for 10 weeks straight without repeats, making it a staple in your daily routine. Whether you need a quick bell ringer, a conversation starter, or a community-building activity, this resource has you covered.
• Build Community: Encourage students to share and listen to each other's responses, fostering a positive and supportive classroom environment. These activities help students develop self-awareness, empathy, and communication skills.
• Engage All Learners: The diverse range of check-ins ensures that there’s something for every student, whether they relate more to visuals, emotions, or metaphors. This inclusivity helps every student feel seen and heard.

Ideas to Use:

• Morning Routines: Start each day with a quick and easy check-in to gauge your students' mood and mindset.
• SEL Activities: Incorporate these slides into your social-emotional learning curriculum to help students develop key emotional intelligence skills.
• Bell Ringers: Use these slides as an engaging way to transition into your daily lessons, helping students shift their focus and prepare mentally.
• Advisory Periods: Foster deeper connections and discussions during advisory time with thought-provoking questions and activities.
• Conversation Starters: Encourage students to share and discuss their thoughts, building communication skills and classroom community.

Why This Resource?

Creating a classroom environment where students feel connected, understood, and engaged is key to successful learning. These check-in slides are designed to help you achieve that goal effortlessly. By incorporating these daily check-ins into your routine, you’re not just starting the day on the right foot—you’re building a classroom culture where every student feels valued.

Get ready to make mornings the best part of the day with these engaging, reflective, and fun check-in slides. Perfect for year-round use and suitable for students of all ages!

Imagine an academic year where students and educators alike grow, learn more about themselves and others, integrating mindful activities seamlessly throughout the school day. 

Imagine a classroom that is regulated, calm and present. 
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When practiced regularly, witness improved behavior outcomes, social skills, and overall social-emotional development of students.
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If you can do a little each day for yourself and your class, you will see the shift happen.

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It’s putting a pause between impulse and action...in other words, self-control.
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It’s learning along with your students, growing together.
It's your students feeling your love and presence.

How to Integrate Mindfulness into the K-5 Classroom is a comprehensive and practical mindfulness resource written specifically for children in grades K-5 and their teachers. Explore how mindfulness can improve self-regulation, self-awareness, autonomy, and social awareness in the classroom. Blended with proven research and best practices, this manual contains tools enabling teachers and students to build key skills like focus, compassion, and self-acceptance through mindfulness. 

Reduce Stress and Anxiety in the Classroom

Research has shown positive outcomes when we practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is proven to reduce stress and anxiety in both teachers and students alike. In the classroom, mindfulness promotes calmer students and improves both social-emotional and academic learning. 

Teachers using our resources have reported better class management and happier students! Students will be given the tools to develop their own mindfulness practice, empowering their development and relationship with themselves and others. Commit to practice mindful moments throughout the school year and watch your students grow.

Learning and Teaching Mindfulness

Developing a mindfulness practice takes time. With the proper resources, such as this manual, teachers can develop their own practice while learning how to teach mindfulness to children. This resource gives you the ability to build a mindfulness culture, right in the classroom, along with the students!

In this manual, we cover:

• What is mindfulness
• How to establish your own mindfulness practice
• How to integrate mindfulness into the K-5 classroom
• A method for developing your daily practice and extend this practice to your students
• How to teach mindfulness activities in a safe, engaging and compassionate way
• Use of the gradual release of responsibility
• 18 mindfulness activities
• Tips and good times for each activity

Teachers, school counselors, specialists, and social workers can use this resource as part of their daily classroom lessons and/or social-emotional curriculum. Learn eighteen mindfulness activities that can be easily integrated into your school day–as brain breaks, transitional activities, or daily lessons. Use our printable mindfulness yoga cards to practice activities at any time, at any place!

What’s included:

• What is mindfulness and how to teach mindfulness
• 18 mindfulness activities with instructions, written for kids (K-5)
• 6 mindfulness cards
• 5 mindfulness planners and worksheets perfect for classroom and daily practice planning
• 2 mindfulness activity posters
• 1 worksheet

How to Integrate Mindfulness into the K-5 Classroom is a 44-page PDF made for educators helping contextualize the use of 18 mindfulness activities in the classroom. You can view this PDF on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.

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After reading orwatching Enemy Pie, students will create their own FRIENDSHIP pie by listing the "ingredients" that make a good friend.

Superhero themed powerpoint on kindness. Great for small groups, 1:1 sessions, or whole classrooms. Great for World Kindness Day, Kindness Week, Back to School, Anti Bullying lessons, etc.

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Teach students the steps to washing hands in this digital interactive activity with moveable pieces or you can use this by printing it out as a cut-and-paste activity in the classroom. This product also has a mini poster to hang up the steps to wash hands.

I teach and model for my students to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds. They need to clean both the back and front of their hands. I also model how to dry my hands with a paper towel and use that same towel to turn the water off. This way they keep their hands nice and clean before throwing away the paper towel.

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This activity can now be found in my updated Science Interactive Notebook.

THIS DOCUMENT IS IN ENGLISH! This document exists in French, here and includes a sexuality and puberty component.

This 45-page document has activities, games, printables, graphic organizers and step-by-step activities to lead engaging discussions with your "big" kids about anxiety, stress and identity.

As with all of my documents, I don't use babyish colors, images or fonts. I create documents for middle-schoolers in mind so this would match the maturity level of grades 5 through 8 - depending on the emotional needs of your students. They're not cutesy or require colored printing,

Activities you'll find include:

• "My Ultimate Coping Playlist" - An independent activity on creating a playlist for songs that help us regulate our many feelings and emotions.
• "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" - A drawing activity on comparing expressions and feelings.
• "Feeling all the Feels!'
• "Thinking about my Feelings" - An open discussion on experiences with anxiety.
• "Feeling all the Feels" - A drawing activity on feelings and body language.
• "Keepin' it Positive!" - An activity on managing thoughts.
• "5-4-3-2-1" - Grounding techniques for anxious thoughts.
• "When I Feel Worried" - Reflexive questions on experiences with anxiety and worry.
• "Managing my Thoughts" - Reflexive questions on experiences with anxiety and worry.
• "Feeling Faces" - Drawing expressions per feelings.
• "Sorting out my Feelings" - A sorting jar activity.
• "Unravelling my Reactions" - Deconstructing our responses to anxiety and stress.
• "You'll Never Find Another Like Me!" - Final identity project.
• "My Multiple Intelligences" - A question set to explore their learning style.
• "How Many Ways are you Smart?" - A multiple intelligences quiz.
• "Reflecting on my own Identity"
• "My Identity Card" - An independent worksheet
• "Identifying Factors" - A whole group discussion game.
• "It's all in a Name!" - An inquisition on the history of their name.
• "Just by Looking at me" - A discussion-based game on stereotyping and labeling.

I cover:

• Labeling
• Stereotyping
• Name origins
• Different forms of identification
• Wrongful collection of race, ethnicity and other personal identification pieces
• Multiple intelligences
• Self-regulation and coping mechanisms for stress and anxiety
• Recognizing positive and negative thought processes
• Changing positive and negative thought processes
• The interconnectedness of thoughts, feelings and actions
• Grounding techniques.

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These Social Skill Scenario Cards are realistic and relatable situations which encourage a child to explore whether that individual has demonstrated either helpful or unhelpful social skills.

Through this SEL lesson, students explore personal space, healthy boundaries, self-control, emotional regulation and relationships and appropriate interpersonal skills. This resource encourages reflection on the consequences of demonstrating that particular social skill.

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• About this Resource
• What are Social Skills?
• Unhelpful Social Skills (Poster)
• Helpful Social Skills (Poster)
• 48 Social Skill Scenario Cards (Print, Cut and Laminate the scenario cards for longevity.)

THIS MINI LESSON IS A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COUNSELLING OR SEL LESSONS! GREAT FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK.

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Introducing the AVID Mini Socratic Seminar resource, "Roadblocks to Good Grades." This digital product is designed to help students identify and overcome common obstacles to academic success. Whether it's struggling with time management, feeling disengaged in class, lacking academic support, or feeling unfamiliar with content and skills, this Mini Socratic Seminar has something for everyone.

Using this resource, students will be able to choose a table where one of the resource category posters is displayed that they relate to the most. Once seated, they will engage in a meaningful dialogue with their peers using a team leader to facilitate the conversation. The discussions will be based on a set of questions provided in a Google Slides presentation.

Through this interactive seminar, students will be able to share their experiences, gain new insights, and discover practical strategies for overcoming the roadblocks that stand in the way of their academic success.

What's Included:

• definition slide
• purpose slide
• advantages slide
• preparation slide
• Mini Seminar directions slide
• 2 slides explaining roles and responsibilities
• slide for management tips
• set-up slide
• Essential question slide
• 10 Socratic Seminar guiding questions for roadblocks to good grades
• 4 Socratic Seminar Group signs
• Editable templates

Category Group Signs Included:

1. Procrastination, Organization, Study Habits, or Time Management – This area is for students who might have difficulties sitting down to study or even knowing what to study.

2. Disengaged in Delivery – This area is for students who might really dislike a class or find it uninteresting

3. Lack of Academic Support – This area is for students who might not have support structures at home to provide additional support in preparing for tests or finishing homework

4. Not Familiar with Content/Lacking Skills – This area is for students who might be in a course that requires them to write, read, or do computations that go beyond their skillset.)

Definition:
A Mini Socratic Seminar is a scholarly discussion of an essential question in which student opinions are shared and refined through dialogue with other students in small groups. In this mini format, the teacher or seminar leader facilitates the discussion for the small groups.

Seminar Directions:

• Students choose a group based on the category that best fits them.
• The teacher poses the essential question.
• Students respond to the question through note-taking.
• The teacher chooses a Socratic Seminar leader for each group.
• The leader facilitates the seminar discussion by guiding group members to a deeper and more clarified consideration of the ideas, respect for varying points of view, and adherence to and respect for the seminar process.
• Students may pose new questions when the discussion is exhausted. New questions posed must relate to students’ ideas and contributions in response to the initial essential question.
• Or leaders use the questions in the Google Slides to guide groups.
• Students write a summary by answering the EQ in their notes after the discussion.

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This product includes the following: vocabulary words, their meanings, and sentences using the words - stranger, caution, and friendly. This product talks about being friendly to people you know and don't know, how you can be friendly to acquaintances by using a greeting, commenting on the weather, asking for information/assistance, offering assistance. These areas are reviewed and examples are provided. Stranger danger is briefly reviewed, internet safety and what should never be sent to friends or strangers, what should never be shared with anyone, 5 internet safety situations are also included in this product. Throughout each safety situation, questions are asked pertaining to how students would handle each situation and what they should and shouldn't do. Comprehension questions are asked throughout this product as well to ensure student understanding.

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MESSY BEDROOM Elementary PE Gym Team Game Teamwork, Cooperation, Communication

MESSY BEDROOM is a must-have activity for any elementary PE curriculum. Get your elementary students energized and engaged with this TEAMWORK, COOPERATION and COMMUNICATION game.

Designed by and for physical education teachers, this exciting activity puts a fun, fast-paced twist on the classic game of The Floor is Lava.

Students will love the challenge of this strategy and teamwork game which also gives them plenty of opportunity to work on their balance and locomotor skills.

This easy-to-play partner or small group team game is always a big hit and my fifth grade students love this game just as much as my kindergarten students because it is non-stop action and loads of fun!

Bring the excitement of this dynamic team game to your classroom and watch your students have a blast while learning important PE skills!

This resource includes:

-Eye Catching One Page Easy-to-Follow MESSY BEDROOM Lesson Plan (Perfect for easily giving to a substitute teacher, although with this game I would not, lol)

-Diagram of Game Set-Up and Play

Perfect for Students in Grades K-5

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Help students learn to accept the answer "no" with Train Your Dragon to Accept NO Social Emotional Learning Worksheets + ELA. This 98-page book companion features over 40 activities including an interactive read aloud lesson plan, providing 15-20 hours of engaging lessons. Perfect for whole group, small group, and independent work, ensuring comprehensive learning and growth through ELA and SEL activities. Develop essential skills in an interactive and supportive way with SEL activities.

Overview

Train Your Dragon to Accept NO Social Emotional Learning Worksheets + ELA is an all-encompassing resource designed to help children learn to accept the answer "no" and deal with disagreements constructively. Aligned with the CASEL 5 Social-Emotional Competencies, this product integrates SEL and ELA skills through engaging activities and discussions.

What's Included

• SEL Objectives: Focus on accepting "no" and managing emotions.

• Activities: Over 40 differentiated activities including:

  • SEL Skills: Feeling Disappointed, Accept or Argue?, Considering Choices, Classmate Interview.
  • ELA Skills: Making Predictions, Summarizing Fiction, Character Analysis, Compare and Contrast, Writing Prompts.

Benefits to Buyers

• Comprehensive Learning: Integrating both ELA and SEL skills allows teachers to address multiple learning goals simultaneously. This dual focus not only enhances literacy skills but also supports emotional development, making lessons more holistic and impactful.

• Engagement: Interactive read-aloud lesson plans with before, during, and after reading questions.

• Differentiation: Activities tailored for varied skill levels, ideal for differentiated instruction.

• Long-Term Use: Extensive activities ensure repeated use without redundancy, perfect for self-contained behavior programs.

Unique Features

• Real Photos: Activities include real photos to enhance connection and understanding.

• Variety: Over 40 activities provide 15-20 hours of instruction.

• Family Involvement: Notes to families with suggestions for home support.

About the Book

Step into the engaging world of "Train Your Dragon to Accept NO," part of the "My Dragon Books" series by Steve Herman. This captivating children's book thoughtfully explores handling disagreements, emotions, and anger. Join Andrew and his dragon, Diggory Doo, as they navigate the challenges of accepting "no" and managing anger constructively. Their journey teaches children the importance of understanding different perspectives and managing emotions in the face of disagreement.

Start teaching the importance of accepting "no" today withTrain Your Dragon to Accept NO Social Emotional Learning Worksheets + ELA!

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Leap Year 2024 | Leap Day Activity | Do We Need Leap Year Socratic Seminar: In this Mini Socratic Seminar and Lesson students will mark the text of an article about Leap Year and why we have them. Then they will have a Socratic Seminar in small groups in order to discuss the essential question, “What is a leap year and is it a necessity?”

By the end of this Socratic Seminar, your students will have a deep understanding of what a Leap Year is and how to mark a text to prepare for a successful Socratic Seminar. Use this AVID Mini Socratic Seminar Lesson to increase dialogue and engagement in your classroom!

✨AVID bundle✨

What's Included:

• Lesson Plan with a walkthrough of all the slides and a video overview and explanation.
• What is a Leap Year Article- google doc which includes a transcript for students to mark their text and come up with questions in the margins for the Seminar. They will also add an essential question at the top, asummary at the bottom, and fill out the embedded vocabulary chart.
• Google slides- go over the lesson and discuss the process of a Socratic Seminar. The slides include embedded links for students to follow along and access required documents.
• Participant Reflection- a digital Google Sheets document for students to summarize and reflect what they learned through the Seminar.

Directions:

• Students will discuss prior knowledge they share about leap years
• Students will read the provided article and follow directions in the slides to mark the text
• Students will highlight unknown words and add these words and their definitions to their embedded vocabulary chart in the article text
• Students will come up with questions for the Socratic Seminar using Costa's Level of Thinking.
• Students will meet with a partner to clarify any confusion.
• Students will summarize the text by answering the EQ in 3-5 sentences.
• Students will review the protocol for Socratic Seminars.
• Students will use their questions and provided sentence stems to have dialogue in the Seminar.
• Students will complete a participant checklist to reflect on the seminar.

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Are you looking for a complete resource to teach Fairness to your young learners? This Fairness Activities Bundle is exactly what you need!

This Fairness Activities bundle will help your students develop the language to use around fairness, help them understand that unfairness hurts and help them see that fair doesn’t always mean equal.

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What’s included in this Fairness Activities Bundle?

Resource 1: Fairness Lesson & Activities

Two comprehensive lessons which focus on introducing your preschoolers to what fairness is and to help them understand that fair does not always mean equal. 

What teachers are saying? 

⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ Claudia M.

I loved this activity as much as my students did! It was such a great visual on what fair vs. equal really means. I will be using this every year!

⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ Sarah W.

Great Resource! It has been awesome to use within my preschool class

Resource 2: Fairness Clip Cards

These fairness clip cards will be a great addition and will help your younger students identify fair and unfair situations and help them develop the language to describe it. 

Being able to identify unfairness will help your students gain greater understanding of how being unfair hurts others and will in turn help develop empathy.

Resource 3: Fairness Scenarios

These 24 fairness scenarios will encourage discussions around common scenarios your students might encounter. 

How to use these Fairness Scenarios?

•Role play the scenarios and brainstorm ways to deal with each situation.

•Spotlight one scenario and have your students work in pairs or small groups to come up with ways to make the situation fair.

•Use scenarios as writing prompts.

•Use one scenario a day as a quick daily focus to reinforce what it means to be fair.

•A great Think-Pair-Share activity.

Resource 4: Fairness Coloring Sheets

Do you need a no-prep fairness activity for your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten students? These 20 fun fairness coloring pages are a great addition to your unit on Fairness. Just print and hand them out! Super easy!

Resource 5: Fairness Worksheets

These Fairness Worksheets were made to complement your Unit on Fairness and to promote discussion and reflection on what fairness looks like in the classroom and playground. 

What’s included in this Fairness Worksheets resource?

• 12 Fairness Worksheets highlighting examples of what is fair, what is unfair and how I can show fairness at home, at school, to my friends, on the playground.

This Fairness Activities BUNDLE has these CASEL SEL COMPETENCIES in mind:

1. Social Awareness- Being able to put themselves in another’s shoes and see the other’s point of view.
2. Responsible decision-making is the ability to make caring and constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions across diverse situations.

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Need social skills activities for elementary students that promote social-emotional learning and teach emotional regulation skills? Look no further; here are 130+ diverse resources designed to help you address student concerns and take your elementary school counseling program to the next level!

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This school counseling curriculum storewide bundle currently contains over 130 crafty lessons & activities that will support your student’s academic, personal, and social-emotional needs. The included social skills activities and games will help children learn emotional regulation skills, coping strategies, anger management strategies & SO MUCH MORE!

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This social-emotional learning resource includes the tools you need to teach positive classroom culture and kindness at the beginning of the school year. Our SEL activities are set up to teach two weeks' worth of social-emotional learning with an emphasis on Zones of Regulation. You'll teach your students to show kindness and empathy towards others in a fun and engaging way. The activities can also be taught throughout the school year to build classroom community.

What's Included:

• 12 printable activities available in full-page activity worksheets
• 8 different writing activities to focus on social-emotional learning and kindness.
• Peer to Peer collaborative games
• Zones of Regulation focused activities
• Engaging whole group activities
• 3 classroom posters with kindness quotes and wall decor
• Kindness activities for both whole group and individual learning.
• Student reflections on kindness, empathy, and emotional regulation
• Individual student emotion cool-down cards for binder rings
• Certificate of completion and dog tags (kindness cadet) when the boot camp is finished. (Certificates and dog tags are editable to include student names).
• Calisthenic exercises to engage students with learning.
• Making compliments sentence starter guide and apology template to assist students in problem-solving and sharing kind thoughts.

Your students will grow so much with kindness, empathy, and understanding of their emotions when you take the time to teach these skills at the beginning of the year. I hope this resource helps you build the necessary skills for your students to care for and respect each other.

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Another SEL resource that we have in our shop is our "Remarkably You" activities which focus on building students' self-confidence in who they are. Click on the link below to see more.

Remarkably You

We also have a resource to teach your students how to strengthen friendships, build new relationships, and learn what it means to be a great friend. Click on the link below to see more.

Build Friendships | Peanut Butter & Cupcake ELA Resource

If you're interested in the product, we have a Kindness Snow Camp version that teaches the same principles that you will find in this resource that is winter themed. Perfect for reteaching kindness, respect, and empathy in the new year.

Kindness Snow Camp | Social-Emotional Learning

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This interactive SEL classroom lesson provides fun and engagement for the entire class, while reminding them that everyone (including Disney characters!) uses growth mindset and gratitude in their roles - just as we should do! This activity will have students using creative thinking skills, communication, growth mindset, and so much more! My students have loved this activity and ask to do it frequently (See Leadership Lessons from Disney lesson in my store as well!) I use Disney characters as most are familiar with many of the characters and it is fun to see their faces light up when they get it correct. One of the magical moments with this lesson is seeing how easily they connect with the Disney characters when reflecting afterwards. Everything you need for this lesson is ready to go upon download - easily editable and adjustable to best fit your needs or add new characters as well, with 9 ready to use characters + quotes included!

Empower your middle school classroom with our comprehensive "Empathy Lesson Plan," expertly crafted for teachers focusing on Social Emotional Learning (SEL), character education, and behavior improvement. This versatile resource is designed to resonate with students across all subjects, including Special Education and intervention programs. This is the perfect lesson set for the new school year of 2024!

What's Inside?

• Engaging Empathy Video & Discussion Prompt: Start your class with an inspiring video about empathy, followed by thought-provoking questions to engage students right away.
• Differentiated Reading Texts: Includes leveled texts on empathy featuring Fred Rogers, Malala Yousafzai, and Doctors Without Borders, perfect for 4th, 6th, and 8th-grade reading levels. Each story exemplifies empathy in a relatable and inspiring way, tailored for diverse learning needs.
• Reflection Writing Prompt: Encourage deep thinking with a text-to-self connection writing prompt, helping students relate the lessons of empathy to their own lives.
• 'Walk in My Shoes' Coloring Activity: A creative exercise where students share aspects of their lives and perspectives, promoting empathy and understanding among classmates.
• Empathy Interviews: Foster meaningful conversations with guided empathy interviews, allowing students to explore and understand each other's experiences and emotions.

Key Features:

• Behavior and Character Development Focus: This resource is specially designed to address classroom behaviors by nurturing positive character traits through empathy.
• Adaptable Across All Subjects: Ideal for middle school teachers of various subjects, looking to integrate character education into their curriculum.
• Ready-to-Use: No prep needed, available in easy-to-use formats, perfect for busy educators. Choose between a print-and-go PDF or an editable Google Slides version.

Perfect for creating a more empathetic, understanding, and supportive classroom environment, this lesson plan is an essential tool for enhancing student behavior and emotional intelligence. Whether you're resetting for a new school year, dealing with challenging behaviors, or aiming to strengthen your students' character, this empathy-focused resource is tailored to make your teaching experience more impactful and rewarding.

Check out the other resources in this series:

• Character Education Middle School: Teamwork SEL digital lesson, video, writing (TeachShare.com)
• Character Education Middle School: Resilience SEL digital lesson, video, writing (TeachShare.com)

This bundle includes a teacher manual with 18 mindfulness activities to use in the school day OR with families in the home! It also comes with a 30 minute video of founder, Lara Hochiser, explaining how to integrate mindfulness, and how to do the 6 activities that are included within the 18 of the manual.

Looking for an exciting and engaging way to introduce Growth Mindset to your students? Then try our Growth Mindset Bingo! This fun and interactive social emotional learning activity is perfect for students of all ages to learn and explore the key concepts of growth mindset.

Our Bingo Worksheets are filled with a variety of key growth and fixed mindset word, concepts and qualities, making this game perfect for counselors, social emotional learning lessons, mental health activities, and more! You can use it as a great game for individual, small group, or even whole class activities, making it the perfect supplement to your SEL lessons.

Our Growth Mindset Bingo features a range of qualities including being determined, challenged, encouraged, fixed mindset, frustrated, imaginative, and more. It's the ideal way to help children explore key words and strategies surrounding growth mindset. Plus, it's a great introduction to this important topic!

To play, simply have the caller read the mindset card, and players identify whether they have that particular quality or word on their BINGO mat. The first to cross off all 8 on their unique mat wins the game! With over 40 different Bingo worksheet mats for larger classes and colorful, engaging growth mindset cards, learning has never been so much fun.

So why wait? Let's make learning fun, engaging, and colorful with Growth Mindset Bingo! Download this resource today and start exploring mindset in a fun and exciting way that your students will love.

THIS MINI LESSON IS A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COUNSELING OR SEL LESSONS!

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This AVID Speed Philosophical Chairs note taking lesson plan with teaching slides has everything you need to teach your students the process of speed philosopical chairs while they practice the 5 phases of focused note taking! This lesson also includes 40 speed philosophical topics for students to apply they're learning at the end of the lesson.

What's Included:

• Lesson plan that walks you through the slides
• 43 teaching slides
• 40 speed philosophical chairs topics
• participant reflective checklist
• rules of engagement poster/handout
• pre-filled in/scaffolded digital Cornell Notes
• costa's level of thinking house
• embedded timers for quickwrite and speed philosophical chairs topics
• Video overview/explanation

Note Taking Process and Lesson:

• Students will practice the process of note taking and while learning the process of philosophical chairs

Applying Learning:

• At the end of the note taking lesson and practice, students will practice speed philosophical chairs using 40 of the topics provided OR coming up with their own.
• Students will use the participant checklist to reflect on the process.

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