SEL Resources
The state has recognized the critical importance of the social and emotional learning and well-being of students during the upcoming academic year. The challenges of the current epidemic show the need for us as educators to focus our attention, energy and passion toward the goal of supporting the whole child while prioritizing the most basic needs of creating a safe and supportive online environment for our children. With this in mind the following activities are being shared. Feel free to use them and modify them to best meet your classroom needs.
ACTIVITIES
This Google Form can be used to check in on your students' social-emotional well-being. (This is a force copy, so feel free to edit as you see fit.)
Calming Activities Help students wind down with these activities.
Make and share beautiful art with weavesilk.com
Make and share music with the Blob opera at Make music
Make and share beatbox music with https://www.incredibox.com/
Give students a few minutes to play Google's Quickdraw drawing game https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
Create unique sandscapes using thisissand.com
TOOLS to engage students
The following tools were used in many of the SEL activities. The videos shown offer a tutorial on how to use the tool. Feel free to contact an MPS technology integration specialist to learn more about how to use the tool and practical implementation methods.
Google Classroom Question Tool
Classroom question tool allows you to quickly survey your students. Ask a multiple choice or open ended question.
Mentimeter
Mentimeter is a freemium tool that helps you add student participation to your lessons. Survey your class and get student feedback. Present your students' responses in a variety of ways.
Mentimeter free version allows you to create an unlimited number of presentations. Click here for more information about using this tool.
Mentimeter Tutorial - Create your first Mentimeter presentation
Flippity.net overview.webmFlippity.net
Flippity is a free website that allows you to turn Google spreadsheets into interactive digital manipulatives, activities, and tools. The site offers a wide range of ready-made templates that you can copy and customize.
Bitmoji Classroom
A Bitmoji classroom is a virtual classroom where teachers can present content to students in fun and engaging ways. Teachers design and organize images in their own "classrooms" and hyperlink resources like videos, websites, and assignments to them. You can post the links to your Bitmoji Classrooms in Moodle or Google Classroom.