Classcraft is an app for teachers and students focused on social-emotional development.
It helps students to learn while also working to develop their social skills and sense of independence. These games will send results to teachers, so we can monitor our students' progress and adjust instruction. Classcraft allows teachers to use video games alongside instruction. The program helps students see meaning in school and develop competencies to become better learners.
"By creating a shared experience through games, Classcraft gives educators an authentic way to connect with students. "
Classcraft offers a free version and a premium version for $120.
This easy-to-use SEL app allows you to check in multiple times a day to get in touch with your feelings.
It even asks you to rate the intensity of these feelings so it can lead you to mindful resources and activities that are specific to your needs. Emotionary also has a journaling feature that students can use to write about the emotions they’re experiencing. Other highlights include a sleep log, breathing activities, a to-do list, and more mindful resources.
Headspace is a paid mindfulness app designed to help both teachers and students deal with the demands of a busy schedule.
Headspace includes images, sounds, videos, games, quotes, fun facts, and guided meditations. It’s suitable for all ages and encourages users to take small steps towards difficult emotions throughout the day. It incorporates timed guided/unguided meditations, breathing visuals and informative videos on developing mindful habits.
My Peekaville is an educational SEL app for grades K-5. Using SEL-focused stories, lessons and activities, this app helps young students learn empathy, self-awareness and self-regulation.
My Peekaville is presented as both a video game and interactive storybook. It provides a magical world where people and animals solve problems together.
In My Peekaville, you can visit Peekapak Pals’ homes, learn more about their families, write letters of gratitude, or cannonball into a pool to discover more about courage. My Peekaville is designed to engage young students who have difficulty socializing and managing emotions. It also shows adults how to gain more control over how they feel in their lives. We’re looking at you, teacher!
Middle School Confidential features interactive graphic novel story apps that explore themes like bullying, self-image, friendship and critical thinking.
This SEL app helps teenagers tackle social-emotional skills with an easy-to-navigate story. Story apps include the titles: "Be Confident in Who You Are, Real Friends vs. the Other Kind, and What’s Up With My Family?" Middle School Confidential is a solid SEL app for teachers who are eager to get their students reading about relevant topics like bullying and self-confidence.
Quandary is another SEL app for teachers that promotes ethical decision-making through problem-solving.
This app, which is presented like a sci-fi comic, uses interactive video stories and multiple-choice questions to teach decision making.. The SEL app requires a lot of reading and encourages students to separate fact from fiction, understand different viewpoints and make ethical decisions for your new planet.
SiLAS Solutions is a tool that can help with social skills.
Through video game technology and 3D development, students use characters and create conversations with their own voice recordings. They can make videos talking through problems and expressing their emotions. Grading is easy, with teachers able to assess students and provide feedback through the system.
This app enhances SEL skills through meditation and mindfulness activities.
Smiling Mind’s activities focus on gratitude, deep breathing and finding inner peace in challenging moments. The Smiling Mind app pairs well with its website, offering teachers professional development, mindfulness curricula and student journals. Smiling Mind will teach you about your emotions and how to regulate them. It also offers tools to overcome negative emotions so you can live a more fulfilling life.
Social Express teaches children and teenagers how to perceive emotions and handle social situations through interactive animated videos.
Students are placed into social situations and are asked to practice: speaking appropriately, listening skills, and remaining patient. Social Express prepares kids emotionally for the future through reading, audio, games, and animation.