Social and Emotional Learning Lessons (SEL)
April 15, 2004
6th-Grade Second Step Lesson 20, 2024 You're Changing
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Describe the changes they’ve gone through in the past
Describe the changes they’re currently going through
Describe how those changes affect their relationships
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills
7th-Grade Second Step Lesson 12, 2024 Rights & Responsibilities
This week we’ll go to Lesson 12
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Describe your right to be protected from harassment at school
Describe the responsibilities you and Trask have to create a harassment-free environment
CASEL Core Competencies: Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
8th-Grade Second Step Lesson 17, 2024 Strategies for Managing Stress
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to demonstrate how to choose strategies for managing stress.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management
March 18 & 25, 2004
All Grade Levels Aim High Personal Data Analysis and Presentations
March 11, 2024
6th-Grade Second Step Lesson 18, 2024 What Works Best for You?
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to determine the emotion-management strategies that work best for them and choose the best strategy to use in a situation, given the context.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
7th-Grade Second Step Lesson 24, 2024 Resolving Conflict Part 2 or 2 lessons
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to consider possible solutions and their consequences in order to find the best solution for resolving a conflict.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
8th-Grade Second Step Lesson 24, 2024 Making Things Right
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify a variety of ways for making amends to restore a relationship that’s been damaged.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
March 4, 2024
8th-Grade Second Step Lesson 23, Finding the Best Solution
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to generate and evaluate solutions to conflicts that are mutually acceptable to everyone affected.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
7th-Grade Second Step Lesson 23, Resolving Conflict Part 1 of 2 lessons
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe the perspectives of everyone involved in a conflict in a nonjudgmental way.
CASEL Core Competencies: Social Awareness, Relationship Skills
6th-Grade Second Step Lesson 17, Managing Your Emotions
By the end of this lesson, you will be able demonstrate and evaluate strategies for managing their emotions.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
February 26, 2024
8th-Grade Second Step Lesson 22, Recognize Others' Perspectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to analyze conflicts from others' perspectives to help them from escalating.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills
7th-Grade Second Step Lesson 22, Keeping Your Cool In A Conflict
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to explain how to listen to and consider someone else's perspective in a conflict.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
6th-Grade Second Step Lesson 16, How Emotions Affect Your Decisions
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe how strong emotions can influence the decisions you make.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
February 19, 2024
8th-Grade Second Step Lesson 21, Values and Relationships
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe the connection between your values and healthy behaviors in relationships.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills
7th-Grade Second Step Lesson 21, Keeping Your Cool In A Conflict
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe how using emotion-management strategies can prevent the escalation of a conflict.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
6th-Grade Second Step Lesson 15, Emotions And Your Brain
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe what happens in your brains when you feel a strong emotion. THe Amagdala is the feelings alarm in your brain! This week's question is Think of a time when you reacted to a strong emotion quickly, before you were able to think through your response. What happened?
If you could go back and think it through before responding, what would you have done differently?
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
February 12, 2024
8th-Grade Second Step Lesson 20 My Values
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Identify your core values & how your behaviors demonstrate (show) these values show in your behavior
CASEL Core Competency: Self-Awareness
7th-Grade Second Step Lesson 20, Emotions Matter
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Explain the importance of emotions
Describe how emotions can affect their thoughts and decisions
CASEL Core Competency: Self-Awareness
6th-Grade Second Step Lesson 14, What Emotions Tell You
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe why emotions matter in their lives.
CASEL Core Competency: Self-Awareness
February 5, 2024
Happy National School Counseling Week
Listen to the morning announcements for more information.
Enjoy a puzzle page to work on during your free time. You can earn a small prize when you turn in your completed sheet to Mrs. Schubbe or Mrs. Scharf anytime this week.
6th-Grade Lesson 6 Monitoring Your Progress Towards Your Goals
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Set progress markers for your goal
Determine when your goal has been achieved
Determine if you need to try a new strategy to reach your goal
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making
7th-Grade Lesson 6 Overcoming Roadblocks to Achieving Your Goals (2/continued)
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to create an If–Then Plan to anticipate and get past a roadblock that could prevent you from achieving a goal.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making
8th-Grade Lesson 6 My Future Self (self identity)
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe important aspects of their future identities.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness
January 29, 2024 Second Step Lessons This Week:
6th-Grade Lesson 5 Breaking Down Your Goals
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to break a big, long-term goal down into smaller, short-term goals.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management
7th-Grade Lesson 5 Overcoming Roadblocks 1
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to think of and select appropriate strategies as part of If–Then Plans for overcoming roadblocks.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making
Pursuing My Interests
8th-Grade Lesson 5 Pursuing My Interests
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe ways to make the most of positive factors and decrease the effects of negative factors while pursuing an interest or goal.
CASEL Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making
January 22, 2024
Second Step Lessons This Week:
Grade 6 Lesson 4: Making Goals Specific
In this week’s lesson, your child will learn how to identify and set achievable goals by making them specific.
Question
Ask your child to tell you about a specific goal they’re interested in working toward and what makes it specific.
Grade 7 Lesson 4: Identifying Roadblocks
In this week’s lesson, your child will identify and distinguish between internal and external obstacles (or “roadblocks”) that can get in their way when working toward goals.
Question
Tell your child about a roadblock you encountered when you were working toward a goal, and if you had control over the roadblock.
Grade 8 Lesson 4: Harnessing My Strengths
In this week’s lesson, your child will choose something they’d like to get better at and think about how they could apply their
unique strengths to do that.
Question
Help your child make a list of strengths they have. Ask your child about how they could use these to get better at a new skill.
January 8, 2024
All grades - New Year's 4 Things I'd Like To...
December 11, 2023
All grades Lesson 3 in Second Step
Grade 6 Lesson 3. Trying New Strategies
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to name new strategies they can try when they’re having trouble learning something new.
Grade 7 Lesson 3 - Learning from Mistakes and Failure
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to analyze simple and complex
scenarios to determine what they can learn from making mistakes.
Grade 8 Lesson 3 - My Interests and Strengths
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe how they used their personal strengths to develop an interest, skill, or ability.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Core Competencies:
Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making
December 4 & 5, 2023
Neptune Navigate
6th-Grade Digital Footprint
7th-Grade Privacy & Cyber Awareness
8th-Grade Tech Laws
Once you are signed into Neptune Navigate, on the left click
You may have to click the down caret (arrow) to expand the selections
Student Courses
Junior High
6th-gr Digital Footprint, 7th-gr Privacy & Cyber Awareness, 8th-gr Tech Laws
All modules have a video, 3 readings, and a quiz. Students will need to earn a 70% or better on the quiz for the module to be marked as complete. You can turn on closed captioning on the video to read while you listen or in case you do not have earbuds or headphones in school. Please share with your parents/guardians at home too - this is good stuff!
November 27 & 28, 2023 Military Missions - Cards for Troops
November 20, 2023
6th-Grade Second Step Lesson 2 How To Grow Your Brain
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Describe what happens in their brains when they try something new
Describe how their brains change with experience and practice
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)Core Competencies: Self-Awareness
7th-Grade Second Step Lesson 2 Creating New Pathways on Your Brain
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Explain how practicing something difficult helps the brain grow new neural pathways.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)Core Competencies: Self-Awareness & Self-Management
8th-Grade Second Step Lesson 2 Who Am I? My Identity
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Name unique and important aspects of their identities.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)Core Competencies: Self-Awareness
November 13, 2023
Second Step Begins Today
6th-Grade:
Second Step Lesson 1. Starting Middle School
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Describe challenges they might face as they start middle school
Identify resources where they can get help
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management
7th-Grade:
Second Step Lesson 1. Helping New Students
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Use empathy skills to identify why some students feel nervous when they’re starting middle school
Identify ways they can help new students feel welcome and comfortable at school
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)Core Competencies: Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision-Making
8th-Grade:
Second Step Lesson 1. Welcome!
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe how the Second Step program can help them navigate physical, social, and emotional changes in adolescence.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)Core Competencies: Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Responsible Decision-Making
November 4, 2023
Link - Digital Citizenship Technology, Social, and Emotional Learning prior information to provide a rationale for Neptune Navigate lessons
November 6 & 7, 2023
Link to Digital Literacy lesson instructions via Neptune Navigate program
6th Grade - Module 2 - Cyberbullying
7th Grade - Module 5 - Media Literacy
8th Grade - Module 6 - Privacy & Cyber Awareness
October 13, 2023
Link - Digital Citizenship Technology, Social, and Emotional Learning prior information to provide a rationale for Neptune Navigate lesson coming up Mon & Tues Oct 16 & 17
October 16 & 17, 2023
Link to Digital Literacy lesson instructions via Neptune Navigate program
6th Grade - Digital Citizenship Overview
7th Grade - Social Media
8th Grade - Media Literacy
December 1, 2023
Link - Digital Citizenship Technology, Social, and Emotional Learning prior information to provide a rationale for Neptune Navigate lessons
December 4 & 5, 2023
6th Grade - Module 3-Digital Footprint
7th Grade - Module 6 - Privacy & Cyber Awareness
8th Grade - Module 7-Tech Laws
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
School-wide novel, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park; these SEL slides are an introduction to how we will share as we read and enhance our social and emotional learning (SEL) Link
Monday, October 9, 2023
Xello Career Awareness Lessons continue today Link, go to slide 3
Monday, September 25, 2023
Link - Say Something Anonymous (Sandy Hook Promise)
Monday, September 18, 2023
Link - What is SEL and how do we teach lessons at Trask?