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Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans (for Educators)

Back to school can be an exciting time for children, and for others, a time of intense anxiety and discomfort. Whether it’s changing schools, worrying about “fitting in”, or dreading school work, some kids have a hard time adjusting to a new school year.

To overcome back-to-school blues, we invite children to try this curated yoga sequence consisting of 5 poses, 1 breathing exercise, and supporting mantras to either be spoken aloud or to yourself. When done regularly, this sequence can help young students develop a positive self-image, feel empowered, and prepared to face each school day with confidence.

The Empowerment Sequence is a 16 page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.

• Designed for kids of all ages

• Includes printable yoga deck

• Learn 5 yoga poses

• Learn 1 breathing activity

• Two curriculums to educate yogis

• Includes additional yoga activity instructions

• Printable journal to reflect on your practice

Perfect for practicing anywhere! Use this deck at home, school, park, or when traveling!

Made for educators

Includes two specially designed yoga lesson plans that can be taught to kids ages 7-11 and 11-14.

In yoga, the Yamas & Niyamas are a moral code of conduct, a guideline for how to live. Together, the Yamas & Niyamas help us to make careful decisions about how to think, speak, and behave. This foundational thinking prepares children to form healthy relationships with themselves and others.

This bundle includes two (2) lesson units:

1. Yamas & Niyamas Teen Unit is 47-page PDF download directed at teenagers
2. Yamas & Niyamas Kid Unit is a 48-page PDF download directed at kids ages 7-11

Both units are a PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper.

This bundle contains twenty (20) lesson plans that can be used as a yoga class series, or easily incorporated into the school classroom. Adults can facilitate conversations, games, activities, and yoga experiences that give children concrete information about each of the Yamas & Niyamas.  

Each lesson plan breaks down one of the Yamas or Niyamas and includes; introduction to that specific core value, a discussion guide, small group work or activity, breathing exercises and yoga poses to challenge and engage children.

How can kids benefit from learning about the yamas and niyamas? Our founder Lara Hocheiser discusses how to apply the principles of yamas and niyamas to children ages 7-11 in Yamas and Niyamas Webinar for Kids.

How to Print

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For best results, print at “Fit” or "Fit to page” at High Quality.

Putting the pages into sheet protectors and a binder or folder will preserve it for plenty of uses!

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Included in this bundle:
- Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Autumn Sequence Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Sun Salutation Yoga Cards
- Yamas & Niyamas: Successful Relationships with Self & Others

Enjoy!

Teachers tell me they can't integrate yoga and mindfulness for two reasons: They don't know how and they don't have time. I hear that 100%.

This product is made to help you SAVE time, but first, you have to invest your time. If you spend ten minutes a day, 3 times a week in September and October, by November you only spend 5 minutes, and by January kids are doing this all by themselves. You can learn it together and then you ALL get the skills! Imagine that! Imagine the time you will save not micro-managing behavior.

A colleague and first-grade teacher name Nicole did just as I described above and her class was lightyears more manageable by mid-year than the other groups. People would comment about how quietly they walked in the hallway and how quickly they transitioned from activity to activity. She invested the time and was paid back in dividends. I developed this product to help others share in Nicole's success.

Together, we can use yoga and mindfulness to learn about and take care of our bodies.

Social-emotional learning and self-awareness can be learned using this product. Think of the responsible decisions children can begin to make when we help them connect the dots inward and outward.

Commit to this lesson unit to help your students become more aware of their bodies as you guide them to make mindful connections between how body parts may feel and how can we care for ourselves. Explore ten (10) key body parts and how we can use body awareness to learn about our bodies and emotions while gaining valuable exercise. Each body part has accompanying yoga poses, mindful activities, and facilitated discussion prompts.

The Empower and Calm Teacher Bundle is made for educators, parents, and anyone doing yoga with children!

Give your students the tools to exercise and check-in with their mind and body.

Introducing the Empower and Calm Yoga Bundle, aimed at getting kids moving while learning about self-awareness and boosting self-esteem. 

This bundle includes three (3) yoga units and two (2) yoga card decks geared at empowering, energizing, and strengthening our bodies and minds. 

In this bundle you will get:

• My Body and Caring for Myself: comprehensive Teacher’s Manual and accompanying Student Workbook aimed at developing self-awareness while strengthening our bodies.
• Empowerment Sequence Yoga Cards and Lesson Plans: three lesson plans and a yoga card deck to feel empowered and help children develop a positive self-image. (Our most popular lesson plan ever!!)
• Time for Me: Calming Yoga Cards: calming yoga card deck to encourage children to slow down and manage big emotions. (Fewer words, more calm!)

Lesson Plans for Educators

My Body and Caring for Myself:

The Student workbook can be printed for all of your students, providing self-reflection questions, yoga poses, and meditations for each of 10 body parts.

The teacher's guide assists in facilitating deeper discussions and gives tips for knowing when to move on, and ways to expand the material.

The glossary gives instructions for every pose and meditation.

The slideshow can be used as a visual with basic talking points for you to guide your students with ease from the SMARTBOARD.

Empowerment:

Helping with the back to school blues, challenge your students to strengthen their self-esteem and bodies at once, while facilitating nuanced discussions and meditations.

Time For Me Cards

With fewer words and easy-to-use illustrated yoga poses, children can do relaxing poses to handle any stressor. Provide a place where children are welcome to use these during class, and help them become self-sufficient.

Our yoga lesson plans give the tools to facilitate conversations, games, activities, and yoga experiences to kids of all ages. Use our beautifully-illustrated yoga cards as a visual aid to teach children the yoga poses. Each yoga pose and activity have how-to instruction, written for children. 

With this bundle, children will gain the benefits of yoga and mindfulness while learning about the importance of body awareness and how to manage big emotions. 

This bundle is a PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper.

The Essential Yoga Bundle is made for educators, parents, and anyone doing yoga with children!

The Essential Yoga Bundle includes:

1. Sun Salutation Yoga Cards

2. Yamas & Niyamas Lesson Unit

3. Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans

The Sun Salutation Sequence is a 19-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. If printed, we recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.

The Yamas and Niyamas Lesson Unit is a 34-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. The lesson unit helps children learn the concepts of the yoga philosophy, the context for the Yamas and Niyamas in everyday life, and how to incorporate these values at school, in sports and at home.

The Empowerment Sequence is a 16-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.

Are you searching for a comprehensive Mental Health Matters Portfolio? Look no further. This resource is the ultimate Mental Health Awareness tool, specifically designed to address important topics such as anxiety, stress, self-harm, suicide, drugs, and alcohol. By downloading this Mental Health Matters Portfolio, you will gain access to a variety of activities, worksheets, and lessons that promote mental health and wellness among adolescents.

This portfolio is a valuable resource for counselors and educators seeking to guide teens in understanding different components that can impact their overall wellbeing. The activities and worksheets included in this Mental Health Matters Portfolio allow teenagers to explore their emotions, express their experiences, and develop essential skills that they can utilize throughout their lives.

KEY FEATURES:

• What is Mental Health?: This lesson delves into the concept of mental health, including risk factors and the mental health continuum. The accompanying worksheet provides an opportunity for individuals to assess and explore their own mental health states.
• Anxiety and Stress: In this section, teenagers will gain a deeper understanding of anxiety and stress, including their differences and effects on the body. The Mental Health Worksheet provided allows individuals to reflect on and analyze their anxiety and stress levels.
• Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicide: This lesson addresses the topics of depression, self-harm, and suicide, providing information on symptoms, causes, warning signs, and ways to offer support. The Negative Thoughts and Tracking activity encourages participants to track their negative thoughts and emotions.
• Drugs, Alcohol, and Mental Health: Individuals will learn about the impact of drugs and alcohol on mental health in this section. The workbook includes information on how alcohol affects the brain and a questionnaire to assess personal habits.
• Caring for Self: This lesson emphasizes the importance of self-care and explores various self-care practices, including limiting social media use, exercise, and sleep hygiene. The Self-Care Check-in and Bingo activity and the Self-Care Plan guide individuals in developing personalized self-care routines.
• Reaching Out: The final lesson focuses on building healthy relationships and reaching out for support. Participants will learn effective communication strategies and where to seek help when needed. The My Action Plan activity encourages individuals to create a personalized plan for seeking support and taking care of their mental health.

This portfolio is divided into six individual lessons. You can choose to use the lessons in isolation or scaffold them. The six lessons include:

  1. What is Mental Health?

• What is Mental Health?
• Risk Factors
• Mental Health Continuum
• Exploring your Mental Health States (Mental Health Worksheet)

 2. Anxiety and Stress

• What is Anxiety?
• What is Stress?
• What’s the Difference?
• How Anxiety and Stress affects the Body
• My Anxiety Checklist Questionnaire 
• Exploring Your Anxiety and Stress (Mental Health Worksheet)

 3. Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicide

• What is Depression? Symptoms and Causes
• Self-Harm and Why People Do It
• Suicide and Warning Signs
• Helping Someone at Risk
• Let’s Bust Those Myths!
• Negative Thoughts and Tracking

 4. Drugs, Alcohol and Mental Health

• The Impact of Drugs on Mental Health
• How Alcohol Affects Your Brain
• Looking at Your Habits Questionnaire 

 5. Caring for Self

• The Importance of Self-Care
• Seven Pillars of Self-Care
• Limiting Social Media Use
• Exercise and Sleep Hygiene Practices
• Self-Care Check-in and Bingo
• Developing a Self-Care Plan

 6. Reaching Out

• Relationships and Depression
• Reaching Out – What to Do and Say
• Ask for a Check-in
• Where to Go for Support
• Raising the Alarm
• My Action Plan

  ► Looking for more workbook topics? We've got you covered!

• Behavior and Feelings Workbook
• Gossiping & Rumors Workbook for Teens 
• CBT Workbook - Thoughts Feelings Behaviors for Teenagers
• Self Esteem and Feelings Workbook
• Emotions & Self Care Workbook
• My Anger Management Workbook

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This workbook allows you to reflect and gain insight into who you are – Discovering and clarifying your values, identity and sense of belonging. We say “discover” or “clarify” because our values are already a part of us. We just need to dig a little and find them. Knowing and living your values is essentially a map on how to be more authentic (or more yourself).

Your personal values are like a roadmap to live your life by. The destination is your authentic expression. They will provide you with clarity and vision, as well as confidence to stay the distance. Knowing your values means that you can easily get back on track even if you stray off the path.

Everyone has personal values. By acknowledging and living your values you bring an awareness and rhythm to your life, a sense of inner peace and understanding. Aligning yourself with your values can also help you to live an authentic life.

By exploring and narrowing down your personal values through this workbook you are clarifying what is important to you and show a commitment to making those values a priority.

This mini-lesson explores the following:

-Personal Values are important – why?

-I know who I am (worksheet)

-What are values?

-Living an intentional life (core values list)

-Questions about your core values (reflective questions)

-What are your Core Values (worksheet)

-Your Personal Values in Action (worksheet)

-What shapes our values?

-Experiences shape values

-Generational Impacts interview activity (3-part activity)

-Your values Question Summary

-Living Intentionally – Setting Goals

-Creating your personal values statement (craft)

-Inspirational Quote Poster

This workbook allows you to reflect and gain insight into who you are – Discovering and clarifying your values, identity and sense of belonging. We say “discover” or “clarify” because our values are already a part of us. We just need to dig a little and find them. Knowing and living your values is essentially a map on how to be more authentic (or more yourself).

Your personal values are like a roadmap to live your life by. The destination is your authentic expression. They will provide you with clarity and vision, as well as confidence to stay the distance. Knowing your values means that you can easily get back on track even if you stray off the path.

Everyone has personal values. By acknowledging and living your values you bring an awareness and rhythm to your life, a sense of inner peace and understanding. Aligning yourself with your values can also help you to live an authentic life.

By exploring and narrowing down your personal values through this workbook you are clarifying what is important to you and show a commitment to making those values a priority.

This mini-lesson explores the following:

-Personal Values are important – why?

-I know who I am (worksheet)

-What are values?

-Living an intentional life (core values list)

-Questions about your core values (reflective questions)

-What are your Core Values (worksheet)

-Your Personal Values in Action (worksheet)

-What shapes our values?

-Experiences shape values

-Generational Impacts interview activity (3-part activity)

-Your values Question Summary

-Living Intentionally – Setting Goals

-Creating your personal values statement (craft)

-Inspirational Quote Poster

Need an awesome Movement Activity? I have just the thing for you! This creative Conscious Discipline “Breathing Pose” resource was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. It is best to use one of these images per day or per week, so these resources can last a while. Focus on the specific animal shown and discuss where this animal would be and how it would breathe and pose to gain focus. Make sure you demonstrate the pose with your class. Ask a student to help demonstrate this pose, and the sillier you are, yet focused, the more the students will want to participate with you in each of these fun and motivating animal breathing poses. This is a great SEL strategy! I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

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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Let students go shopping and figure grocery prices with these slides sorted by: Breads/Cheeses Fruits Fast Foods Meats Vegetables Desserts Students fill their baskets with foods, plan meals, and figure prices. Uses addition, decimals, and multiplication facts. Includes food pyramid with daily servings portions. Comes with directions for using, optional activities for presentation projects and research component, and extra resources slide with printables, charts, data, videos, and more... Can be used in health/nutrition classes, as well. Excellent for assessment of math skills, presentation skills, or research skills.

Teach basic counting skills through health and nutrition by having students color and count the items placed in their grocery baskets:

Breads/Cheeses

Desserts

Drinks

Fast Foods

Fruits

Meats

Sight Words

Vegetables

Extra Resources (More printables, videos, etc...)

Includes a food pyramid guide on a plate with daily servings listed. Great way to introduce proper nutrition, compare and contrast good vs. bad foods.

• Do you need visuals to help you teach about the body systems?
• This 41 educational poster set is just the thing!
• Perfect for your bulletin boards or as a display in your room.
• It covers the 6 basic body systems shown.

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• This resource will help you teach your students about the muscular system in an engaging way.
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• This resource will help you teach your students about the skeletal system in an engaging way.
• Included in this resource are a nonfiction text on two levels (so you don't have to write your own), questions, suggestions for activities including bone task cards, and a link to two videos.
• There are also 5 posters to help students visualize muscles.
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• This resource will help you teach your students about the respiratory system in an engaging way.
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CELLULAR ORGANIZATION AND THE SKELETAL AND MUSCULAR SYSTEM:
This product includes quick notes for students who should focus on the important details of the skeletal and muscular system.

Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: skeletal system, muscular system, cellular organization, organism (living thing), organ system, organ, tissue, cells, involuntary muscles, voluntary muscles, smooth muscles, skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles, ligaments, tendons, and bones.

These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes notes, fill in the blank sections, and short answer questions based on what was reviewed in the notes.

CIRCULATORY AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEM:

This product includes quick notes for students who should focus on the important details of the respiratory and circulatory system.

Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: respiratory system, inhale, breathe in, exhale, breathe out, trachea, lungs, diaphragm - contracting and expanding, circulatory system, heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, red blood cells, and white blood cells.

These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes notes with short answer questions based on what was reviewed in the notes. There is a review packet attached that includes 35 + fill in the blank questions. Keys are provided on each page.

HEART:
This product includes quick notes for students who should focus on the important details of the heart - human body system.
Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: the heart, 4 parts of the heart - right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle, circulatory system relating with the heart, carbon dioxide, and oxygen.

These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes notes with short answer questions based on what was reviewed in the notes. There is a review packet attached that includes fill in the blank questions, a diagram to label the parts of the human heart, and an answer key. A key is provided for the fill in the blank answers.

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM:
This product includes notes for students who should focus on the important details of the digestive system - the human body.
Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: levels of cellular organization - organism, organ system, organ, tissue, and cells, digestive system and where it begins - saliva, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine, nutrients - fats/oils, dairy, meat, fruit, vegetables, and grains.
These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes notes with short answer questions based on what was reviewed in the notes. There is a review packet attached that includes fill in the blank questions, a diagram to label the parts of the digestive system, and an answer key. A key is provided for the fill in the blank answers.

NERVOUS SYSTEM:
This product includes quick notes for students who should focus on the important details of the nervous system.
Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: the nervous system and how it works, brain, spinal cord, and nerves are controlled in the nervous system, nerves, neurons, messages that are sent from your hand to brain very fast, labeling the parts of the brain, control center for the body is the brain and the spinal cord and why, and why your nerves do not wait for a message, it just happens - reflex. 
These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes notes with short answer questions based on what was reviewed in the notes. Students will also answer questions using a key to review vocabulary covered in this lesson as well. 

ENDOCRINE AND URINARY SYSTEMS (PUBERTY INCLUDED):
This product includes notes for students who should focus on the important details of the endocrine and urinary systems.
Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: Endocrine and Urinary Systems - hormones, pituitary gland, insulin - pancreas, diabetes, reproductive glands, puberty and what it is, testosterone, ovaries, estrogen, pubic area on males/females, body odor, body changes that take place during puberty, how to prevent body odor, emotions that one may experience during puberty, urinary system and how it removes wastes from the body, urine, and bladder.
These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes notes with short answer questions based on what was reviewed in the notes. Students will also answer questions using a key to review vocabulary covered in this lesson as well. There is a diagram students can draw and label of the urinary system at the end of the packet.

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This mental health curriculum includes suggested activities and tips to support mental health education and instruction for students in 5th through 8th Grade. Depending on students ability levels, this product could be used in 4th and 9th grade as well.

What's in this product:

Mental Health Promoting Self Care and Strength Notes - This product includes a 2 page teacher guide with tips and tricks when teaching self-management - promoting self-care for mental health and overall well being, an activity that relates with self-management, and a 12 page teacher guide with tips and tricks when teaching resiliency - students will learn from adversity and become a stronger, wiser person. Students will learn about overcoming problems that have helped them to become stronger, sometimes when we have problems we get pushed down and there are different choices we can make. Those choices are reviewed in this product. Students will discuss the importance of learning life lessons, positive feedback, poor habits, and good habits. They will learn the importance of being open-minded and how being open-minded leads to change, growth, and new possibilities. Students are also presented with different words that will help them to remember to have an open mind. Students will learn how to express positive feelings about themselves to help build self-esteem, strengthen their own identity, appreciate positive traits about their peers, and practice appropriate use of social media and mobile technology tools. Students will be presented with a real-life situation about how one woman defined herself and found happiness, they will discuss this individuals feels, how positive traits inspired her, and how she built up her self esteem. Students will discuss positive and neutral character traits, they will identify unique character traits about themselves and discuss them further and how these positive traits promote their overall well being.

Understanding Emotions - In this product, students will discuss what to ask for help for oneself and others. Students will identify and express a variety of feelings, common emotions that students feel, compare their emotions to a roller coaster ride and why that may happen, examples of emotional highs and emotional lows, when we feel emotional highs and lows, we may feel more pressure, and as students grow and develop – they need to deal with pressure. When students feel pressured, they can read the list of healthful ways to handle pressure, the list of feelings that it is okay to feel, what it is never okay to do, feelings and their definitions are included: embarrassment, depression, awkwardness, isolation, confusion, disappointment, hopefulness, optimism, happiness, and excitement. The importance of controlling emotions, suggestions for handling emotions are provided, mood swings, feeling pressure, and irritability are discussed. Students will be presented with different situations where they are required to identify the feeling, helpful ways to deal with the feeling, and harmful ways to deal with the feeling. Transition from elementary to middle school and adolescence are discussed and reviewed. Better techniques that can be used to form healthful relations are taught. Gossiping and annoying behaviors are reviewed and why they are frowned upon is included in this product. Students will also identify emotions, have students describe their own feelings and act out emotions. 10 emotion scenarios are provided for students to identify how students would feel if they were in that situation, students will track their emotions in a 7 day journal that is provided in this packet, coping skills are discussed and how they help us handle emotions in productive and positive ways, so our actions match our behavior, a list of poor coping skills is included along with healthy coping skills. Comprehension questions are asked throughout this product for students. They can be answered individually or as a group and can also be used as a group discussion. A teacher’s guide along with tips and activities is included with this product.

Social Communication Skills Adapted Notes and Review - In this product, students will begin to understand what words mean to others, get students to learn to actively listen to someone telling them information or telling them to complete a task, get students to verbalize more clearly, and get students to effectively communicate. Students will work with a partner by following their partners directions, and after the activity, students will evaluate the easiest part of the activity, hardest part of the activity, and answering the question why communication is important when verbalizing or interacting with others, students will read communication starters using facial expression, intonation, and tone of voice, the importance of using facial expression, intonation, and tone of voice are discussed in depth when having a conversation with others, Examples of different tones of voice are included in this product. Students will practice saying an expression a few different ways so they can understand how tone of voice is important, when we are frustrated or annoyed about something our tone of voice changes as does our intonation and facial expression, therefore, alternative strategies students can implement in their day to day routine are provided for when they feel frustrated, and when talking to others, students will learn that by listening to their conversation partner that they will understand how they are feeling based on their facial expressions, intonation, and tone of voice.

Emotional Awareness - In this product, students will identify how powerful positive and negative words are and for students to build empathy. Students will talk about words and actions that can hurt someone's heart/feelings. Students will learn the power of words and how they impact others, students will discuss the meanings of words: bullying, cattiness, discrimination, gossiping, self-esteem, and teasing, a list of hurtful words and actions, and helpful words and actions are provided, and students will be required to add onto all of these lists, students will talk about the effects of hurtful words on the heart, when students are frustrated what they can do to feel better, and how to better handle situations in the future when someone uses a hurtful word or you go to use a hurtful word.

Forgiveness Activities - In this product, students will learn what forgiveness is, to understand what forgiveness looks like, to discuss what forgiveness means, discuss the benefits of forgiveness, and to strategize how to practice forgiveness. Students will talk about what forgiveness means and how forgiveness means letting go of anger or resentment, Elizabeth Eckford and Tariq Khamisa are discussed in this product and what happened to them, how forgiveness was important in their situations, how forgiveness is important in these situations. Comprehension questions are asked that relate with Elizabeth and Tariq's situations and how students would handle forgiveness in these situations. Students will learn when they may want to forgive someone, when you may want someone to forgive you, and who you are hurting if you don't forgive someone. Students will learn that forgiveness requires compassion, empathy, and courage, it takes time and that is okay. Students will learn what to say to someone when they forgive them, how to show someone that you forgive them, and how you can ask forgiveness.

Gratitude Activity – Students will complete a gratitude scavenger hunt, where will they look for things in their environment that they are grateful for and students will answer questions about what they are grateful for such as something that they are thankful for that shows a vibrant color, something that makes them feel strong, something that they recently learned/discovered, etc.

Feelings and Mental Health Activities and Tips - In this product, students will learn to ask for help for self and others, students will use their imagination and visualization to release bad feelings, recognize when a situation needs help, students will identify the adults in school to ask for help from, identify the adults out of school to ask for help from, understand what trusting a person means, students will learn how we are all connected, learn what it means to work as a team, learn about different forms of communication, and practice different forms of communication. Students will talk about stuck feelings and how they get stuck, because you don't know that they are there, or you don't know how to let them go, a story about stuck feelings will be presented to students, and they will be required to answer questions about how they would best solve the problem if they were in the characters shoes, students will talk about pulling out their feelings, sending them away, and letting them go, students will focus on one uncomfortable feeling and will discuss where they can send it to let it go, so it doesn't return, students will talk about what they can do when they feel an unpleasant feeling, they will work on a feelings survival kit that will help them handle a situation in the future where they feel unpleasant feelings, students will discuss the definition of trust and who they can trust to help them when they are feeling unpleasant feelings, they will complete activities such as a buddy walk, trust fall, and trust drawing to help build trust, and students will complete a human knot and will work together with their peers to get out of the knot. Upon completing the human knot, students will complete the journal questions that are included in this product. Students will talk about the importance of communication and how we effectively communicate with others both verbally and nonverbally. Students will play the games telephone, charades, and hello with partners/groups and will reflect on their communication skills in the journal included in this product.

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