Elementary & SEL

APPS & WEBSITES FOR KIDS:

Everyday Speech Social Skills Games (social awareness, relationships, decision-making) – Interactive online games for social skills, including conversation skills, school behavior, problem solving, and more.
Breathe, Think, Do (self-management, decision-making) – Use with younger learners to help practice deep breathing and problem-solving skills.
Go Noodle (self-management) – Hundreds of videos to help kids take a brain break and practice mindfulness.
Headspace: Guided Meditation & Mindfulness (self-awareness, self-management) – This app provides meditation exercises with a coach that helps you learn as you go.
The Mindfulness App (self-awareness, self-management) – A mindfulness app that helps you become more present in your daily life with guided and silent meditation sessions.
Learn Social Skills (social awareness, relationships) – Use video lessons and readings to help kids learn skills.
Aware (self-awareness, self-management) – This app leads you through daily mindfulness meditation techniques, including energizing activities and breathing practice.
Stop Breathe & Think: Meditate (self-awareness, self-management) – Tailored to your specific emotions, this app helps you take a break and reduce stress through meditation.
Listening Skills (social awareness, relationships) – Strategies for becoming an active listener.
MyCalmBeat (self-awareness, self-management) – This app provides training and practice in slow, deep breathing for stress reduction.
Breathe (self-management) – An app that assists in controlling your breathing.
Gratitude Journal (self-awareness, self-management) – This app helps you focus on the positive by identifying what you are thankful for each day.
Kids Coping Skill Puzzle (self-management) – Build a puzzle while sorting between positive and negative coping skills.
Affirmation Reminder (self-awareness) – Select from a list of positive affirmations or make your own to add as reminders.
ColorMe (self-awareness, self-management) – Free coloring app to help reduce stress.

from https://www.thepathway2success.com/free-social-emotional-learning-resources/

Social Problem Solving Task Cards Free - Distance LearningThese are a set of 10 free task cards that highlight social scenarios and situations that kids can discuss and identify how they would solve each situation. The cards are organized into five different sets that target different situations: With friends, with family, in the classroom, at recess, and ...

How Big is My Problem Task Cards Free SamplerThis Task Cards Sampler is a pack of 10 fun task cards that highlight situations that kids can discuss and identify how big each problem is. A "How Big is My Problem?" scale is also included, rating problems from 0 (a glitch) to 5 (an emergency). The cards are organized into five different sets that...

Free Classroom PostersThese Free Classroom Posters are 10 free colorful classroom posters full of encouragement and positivity aimed at a cooperative and positive classroom community. Themes in the posters include doing the right thing, having initiative, working together, always trying, and it's okay to make mistakes.

Working with Others Freebie SamplerThese two worksheets are focused on teaching and supporting kids and young adults who need to learn how to effectively work with partners and in groups. The first worksheet allows students to brainstorm ways to be a positive group member and use higher order thinking skills to select the five ways t...

Free Student of the Month AwardsThis resources includes 3 Student of the Month awards and 3 Student of the Week awards. This is a great way to improve classroom management and positive classroom community. The awards are bold and interesting so that students will feel positively reinforced by earning such a weekly or monthly award...

Getting to Know You QuestionsKids can use this free list of over 30 questions to ask partners about themselves. This can be a helpful getting to know you activity for back to school. Kids will then write what they've learned about their partners on a student response sheet. To help promote a positive classroom community, each s...

Free Conversation StartersThis resource includes over 24 conversation starter task cards. They are a mix of questions regarding self, home, friends, school, family, and beliefs. Educators can use these discussion cards as conversation starters or ice breakers to help students share information, open up, and begin to form pos...

Perspective-Taking Social Skills Lessons - Distance LearningUse these lessons to teach critical social skills of perspective-taking to kids, including understanding perspectives, developing their own perspectives, and recognizing there can be more than one point of view in a situation. This resource includes two complete activities with an educator guide and...

Tolerance and Acceptance PledgeUse this tolerance and acceptance pledge as a lesson and activity to help kids become more tolerant, accepting, and understanding of those who are different from them. The resource contains a lesson plan with discussion starters and ideas to talk about while introducing the idea of tolerance and a...

Social Skills Lessons for Conversations Free LessonsUse these lessons to teach critical social skills of conversations to kids, including how to start a conversation, using conversation-starters, finding things in common with others, and keeping a conversation going. This resource includes four complete activities with an educator guide and lesson pl...

Free Homework BinderHelp kids and young adults set up a homework binder that will help them stay organized, prepared, and ready for success. A homework binder is an individualized binder for each student that contains: a pencil pouch, homework log, homework folder, and more. Students should bring it with them to every ...

Free Executive Functioning PosterUse this free executive functioning poster to highlight each specific executive functioning skill. Skills highlighted include: planning, organization, time management, task initiation, working memory, metacognition, self-control, sustained attention, flexibility, and perseverance. Post this page up ...

Kindness ActivityThis free kindness activity focuses on teaching and promoting kindness and kind behavior in your classroom. Kids will use the printable page to color in or check off each behavior as they do it. You can use this as a kindness challenge or just a reminder to be kind throughout the week.Why should I t...

Mindfulness Coloring PagesUse these free coloring pages to help kids and young adults practice mindfulness to help promote happiness, attention, and emotional control. Mindfulness means being present in the moment with your thoughts and feelings without making judgements. It is being aware of what is happening but not being ...

100 Free Coping Strategies - Distance LearningUse these 100 free coping strategies to help kids and young adults with anxiety, depression, anger, dealing with stress, and more. This resource includes a 2-page printable list of coping strategies. A space is also included for kids and young adults to write in their own individualized coping strat...

Motivation Workbook Free SampleUse this free workbook to help kids and young adults learn skills for staying motivated in school. These are great materials to use with middle and high school students. This free workbook discusses what motivation is, effects of lack of motivation, strategies to increase your motivation, and a jour...

Executive Functioning Workbook Free VersionTeach specific executive functioning skills with this free workbook sampler. Skills targeted include: planning, organization, time management, task initiation, working memory, metacognition, self-control, sustained attention, flexibility, and perseverance. The free resource includes a sample of my E...

Coping Strategies Notebook Free Sample Activity - Distance LearningUse this free sampler to help kids will create their own individualized notebook to practice coping strategies for anxiety, anger, stress, depression, and other strong emotions. First, kids will design their notebook with a coloring page. Next, they will identify strategies for their own coping stra...

Anger Management WorksheetsHelp kids identify their anger triggers with this free set of three printable worksheets. Two worksheets focus on having students list the triggers that cause them to feel angry. They can then be used as part of a discussion or an anger management plan to help kids deal with their anger in more posi...

Growth Mindset Task Cards FREE SamplerUse these free task cards to help kids and young adults learn about growth mindset by understanding hard work, persistence, grit, and dedication impact your success. Students use the task cards to practice a growth mindset in all areas of their life, including at school, home, activities, with frien...

Coping Strategies Challenge - Distance Learning and Google ClassroomUse this free coping strategies 30-day challenge to introduce new coping strategies to kids and young adults every day for a full month! Students will be introduced to coping strategies and why they are important. Then, students will practice one strategy per day. After performing that activity, stu...

The Power of YET PostersThese free posters encourage growth mindset using the word "yet". By adding the word "yet" to statements, kids and young adults can learn that they can accomplish anything with hard work and dedication. Growth mindset helps kids and young adults retrain their brains with using positive thinking skil...

Social Emotional Learning Journal Free Sample - Distance LearningUse this free Social Emotional Learning Journal to teach SEL skills! This free resource includes 5 journal prompts focused on self-awareness and helping kids understand their individual strengths and challenges. Note that this is a small sample of my Social Emotional Learning Journal for the Full Ye...

Positive Thinking Affirmations - Distance Learning and Google ClassroomUse these 101 free positive thinking affirmations to help kids and young adults with anxiety, depression, anger, dealing with stress, and more. This resource includes a 2-page printable list of positive affirmations and a student worksheet to record individual positive affirmations. Digital VersionU...

Gratitude ActivitiesHelp kids and young adults practice gratitude by learning what we are thankful for. Gratitude promotes happiness, positive thinking, and creates a positive classroom climate. Research shows numerous social, emotional, and health benefits from developing gratitude and appreciation skills.Why Teach Gr...

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