$5 - $10 Staff School Counseling Unit Plans
Understanding Emotions Activities
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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.
This product can be used for 5th - 8th grade, but can be used for younger or older students depending on maturity and academic level.
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Understanding Emotions Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Understanding-Emotions-Activities-9684291
Social Communication Skills Notes and Review:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Social-Communication-Skills-Notes-and-Review-9700711
Emotional Awareness:
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Forgiveness Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Forgiveness-Activities-9753807
Gratitude Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Gratitude-Activities-9753926
Health and Fitness Adapted Notes and Review
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Health-and-Fitness-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-12065368
Feelings and Mental Health Activities and Tips:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Feelings-and-Mental-Health-Activities-and-Tips-9766418
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Feelings and Mental Health Activities and Tips
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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.
This product can be used for 4th - 8th grade, but can be used for younger or older students depending on maturity and academic level.
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Mental Health Curriculum 5th – 8th Grade Bundle
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Mental-Health-Curriculum-5th-8th-Grade-9777027
Individual Products:
Mental Health Promoting Self Care and Strength Adapted Notes
Understanding Emotions Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Understanding-Emotions-Activities-9684291
Social Communication Skills Notes and Review:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Social-Communication-Skills-Notes-and-Review-9700711
Emotional Awareness:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Emotional-Awareness-9711191
Forgiveness Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Forgiveness-Activities-9753807
Gratitude Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Gratitude-Activities-9753926
Feelings and Mental Health Activities and Tips:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Feelings-and-Mental-Health-Activities-and-Tips-9766418
Health and Fitness Adapted Notes and Review
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Health-and-Fitness-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-12065368
Managing Anxiety Activities and Examples
By Sign with me TOD
In this product, students will learn how anxiety can make you feel, what anxiety is, what happens to the body when we feel worried or fearful, how anxiety feels some possible causes of anxiety, what you can do to ease anxiety, learn different ways to manage anxiety learn breathing activities to manage anxiety, how someone can become anxious because of something that was said, examples that may cause you to become anxious, and students will determine how to best handle those situations. Anxiety scenarios are included in this product that require students to share how they would feel if the situation was happening to them explain what may happen to their body using the chart that is included in this product. A journal on how to manage anxiety is also included with this product that includes 9 different prompts that allow students to draw or write about a situation where they became anxious and how they handled that situation.
You may like these products as well:
Mental Health Curriculum 5th – 8th Grade Bundle
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Mental-Health-Curriculum-5th-8th-Grade-9777027
Individual Products:
Mental Health Promoting Self Care and Strength Adapted Notes
Understanding Emotions Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Understanding-Emotions-Activities-9684291
Social Communication Skills Notes and Review:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Social-Communication-Skills-Notes-and-Review-9700711
Emotional Awareness:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Emotional-Awareness-9711191
Forgiveness Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Forgiveness-Activities-9753807
Gratitude Activities:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Gratitude-Activities-9753926
Feelings and Mental Health Activities and Tips:
https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Feelings-and-Mental-Health-Activities-and-Tips-9766418
If you like this product, please leave a positive review. :)