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Regulation refers to one’s ability to recognize and navigate emotions, feelings, cognitions and behaviors during challenging situations. Regulation skills build agency, self-discipline, self-motivation, and impulse control.
Discover a variety of lessons and exercises that strengthen REGULATION skills by clicking on the links below.
Discover a variety of lessons and exercises that strengthen REGULATION skills by clicking on the links below.
FREE // P-5TH GRADE
About: Students take a few minutes to draw anything they like, learning an emotion regulation strategy that can help shift unpleasant emotions to calmer, more pleasant ones.
FREE // P-12TH GRADE
About: Students or staff sit in a circle, center themselves with a Mindfulness Moment, and use a talking piece to respectfully take turns answering a question about how they are doing. They close the Circle process by reflecting on the effectiveness of the process itself.
FREE // 6TH-12TH GRADE
About: This practice, inspired by the lectio divina method, asks students to read a text slowly and carefully and then reflect on it, helping to cultivate deeper awareness and understanding.
FREE & PAID // K-5TH GRADE
About: What is active listening, how do students do it, and why? This lesson answers these questions and provides ways for you to increase active listening in your classroom using fun games and exercises to reach all students.
FREE // 3RD-12TH GRADE
About: This variation on freewriting is a method of inner inquiry, helping students to explore their thoughts, emotions, or ideas on a topic of their choice, an academic-related question, or an ethical dilemma.
FREE // 9TH-12TH GRADE
About: Students apply a “growth mindset” lens to people who exclude others and/or are victims of exclusion, recognizing that people can change for the better.
FREE // 1ST-5TH GRADE
About: Mind Yeti is a library of research-based guided mindfulness sessions that help kids and their adults calm their minds, focus their attention and connect to the world around them. Created by nonprofit Committee for Children.
CLICK HERE to view the FREE playlist of Mind Yeti videos on Youtube.
FREE // PK-12TH GRADE
About: In this quick activity, students participate by sharing roses—something positive going on for a student that day—and thorns, which are negative, or at least less than positive. The rose and thorn check-in is a quick strategy for building community and developing student voice.
ABOUT: Students learn about the three parts of the brain–the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex–involved with emotion regulation, attention, and learning to engage their interest and enhance their self-awareness.
Understanding these parts of the brain and how they work can help students get better at making good choices and learn better.
Through this activity, we introduce students to the concept that they can use their brain in ways that will help them focus their attention when needed, calm themselves in the face of anxiety, and be less reactive and more proactive in creating a more productive experience.
Morning Meetings
Morning Meetings
FREE // P-5TH GRADE
About: At Symonds Elementary, teachers use morning meetings to develop valuable social-emotional skills, create a culture of respect and trust, and prepare students to learn.
FREE // P-12TH GRADE
About: Students notice what it feels like inside their bodies when they are shaking or tensing body parts, resting their bodies, and transitioning between these states.
FREE // 3RD-12TH GRADE
About: Students learn to care for themselves by planning enjoyable activities to combat stress and anxiety.
FREE // K-6TH GRADE
About: There are many effective ways to solve a problem. In this activity, students will imagine difficult situations and talk about strategies for making responsible, ethical, and healthy choices. Talking about these choices will help students make decisions in the future when problems arise.
Individual lessons are available for Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, and Sixth Grade.
FREE // K-6TH GRADE
About: Young children who can accurately read facial expressions and assign an appropriate emotion to a situation perform better academically, have fewer behavior problems, and demonstrate greater prosocial (kind, helpful) behavior. For this activity, in a group meeting students share their feelings while also building their feelings vocabulary and emotion knowledge.
Individual lessons are available for Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, and Sixth Grade.
FREE // 1ST-5TH GRADE
About: Use the images and descriptions as a guide. Focus on using movement to invite calm, and don’t worry about practicing perfectly aligned poses. Ensure that your students have enough space to practice the poses so that they aren’t bumping heads or stubbing toes. And make sure that they are safe with their bodies. Have them focus on gentle movement that feels comfortable. This process will help to increase their body awareness, too.
FREE // K-12TH GRADE
About: What does mindfulness do to spark “the joy of just being”? And, how can we teach kids to start benefiting from its practice? This article delves into both of these questions and includes plenty of science-based, comprehensive exercises that will not only help you cultivate a sense of inner peace throughout your daily life but will also give you the tools to enhance the mindfulness of your children and/or students.
FREE // 6TH-8TH GRADE
About: Respect and understanding ensue when students allow themselves to become more aware that everyone has a story. If they just look a little closer, they may see a whole new side to someone that they once only judged and/or dismissed. When we understand this reality and learn to look at others with compassion and understanding, people become real. It’s hard to treat someone poorly once you get to know them. The goal of this lesson is to help students to look closer at those around them and become more empathetic.
FREE // K-12TH GRADE
About: In this guide, you will find activities that are aligned to Sandy Hook Promise’s Start With Hello and Say Something programs. These activities also boost essential social and emotional skills needed during times of social distancing. The activities can be shared with students, used and modelled by trusted adults, and given as ‘Promise Challenges’ by educators. Each activity supports at least one of the five CASEL competencies.
FREE // P-5TH GRADE
About: Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation for kids. Interactive adventures which build strength, balance and confidence - and get kids into yoga and mindfulness early!
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(Secret yoga codeword = Namaste!)
FREE // P-5TH GRADE
About: GoNoodle helps teachers and parents get kids moving with short interactive research-based activities. Desk-side movement helps kids achieve more by keeping them engaged and motivated throughout the day.
FREE // K-3RD GRADE
About: Looking for ways to help your child with social-emotional learning(SEL)? Many schools have started teaching kids how to do things like cope with feelings, set goals, and get along with others. Here are a handful of social-emotional learning activities that can help children manage emotions and work on social skills — and have some fun with you along the way. These social-emotional learning games are very low-tech and all are designed to fit easily into daily routines.
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