Supplemental Resources for Cooperation
Social Emotional IEP Goals
Social Emotional IEP Goal Bank We understand that you want to provide your students with the greatest possible chance for success in meeting their IEP goals. To help out, we’ve assembled a list of 10 frequently cited Social Emotional IEP goals as well as actionable objectives to include with them. Best of all, we’ve linked ready to go lessons and printables to each objective and provide additional resource suggestions to extend learning, giving you time ... Read more
Brain Breaks For Kids
How Do Kids Take a Brain Break? It can be a good idea to intentionally plan a brain break mid-lesson, roughly every 20-30 minutes, though frequency can vary by age. When you plan ahead, you may avoid the slump of disengagement and can also seize an opportunity to get creative with the activity. There are three general styles of brain breaks that all apply to the end goal of providing brief respite from rigorous learning ... Read more
SEL Books
For obvious reasons, we hope that you use our online social emotional learning interventions to help your students practice and improve their social emotional skills at their own pace; however, we know that it helps to reinforce learning with additional resources like printables, worksheets, group activities, and SEL books and games.
Word Association Game
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Communication, Cooperation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Word Association Cards (Available when logged in to your Centervention Educator account). Word Association Game Instructions Print out a set of Word Association Cards for each pair of students. Alternatively, for each round you may call out the prompt or write/project it on the board. How do you play Word Association Games? Word association games provide players with a word and ... Read more
Conflict Resolution for Kids
We’ve rounded up some of our top tips and lessons that will help you create a classroom that practices respectful resolutions and sees conflict as a chance to develop ever-important communication skills.
Agree to Disagree: A Lesson About Perspective
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Communication, Cooperation, Empathy Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Agree to Disagree Lesson Instructions and Teacher Guide Learning to appreciate and value the perspectives of others is a hallmark of effective communication and a foundation for flexible thinking and conflict resolution. This lesson will provide students with activities that explore expression, dialogue, and agreeing to disagree with respect and integrity. Introduce the topic Gather students to listen to a story. Retell ... Read more
SEL Skill Printables
You can show an ongoing commitment to social emotional learning by recognizing students who demonstrate good or improving SEL skills.
Pass It On Game
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Communication, Cooperation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: None Pass It On Game Instructions Prompt: Gather students in a circle and tell them they will play a game of Pass It On. They will need to pay close attention to the action of the round and try to keep the rhythm going from one classmate to the next as they “pass” along the movement. Say: We need to pay ... Read more
Indoor Recess Activity: Pass The Hoop
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Communication, Cooperation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Hula hoop(s) Indoor Recess Activity Instructions To begin this activity, place a hula hoop diagonally across your body and gather students to join hands in a circle. Tell them they will play a game of Pass the Hoop. “For this game, I am going to ask a question to us all. I will take my turn answering and without letting go ... Read more
How to Create a Bitmoji Classroom for SEL
If you’re providing remote instruction this year, you may have seem images where educators create a personalized virtual classroom that they share with students during online meetings. These classroom images are easy to make and they help students feel more connected even when they are learning from home. In this tutorial, we’ll provide step-by-step directions for how to create a Bitmoji Classroom and we’ll use a variety of posters and books focused on social emotional ... Read more
Cooperative Learning Activity
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Communication, Cooperation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Decode-a-Joke Worksheets (Available when logged in to your Centervention educator account) Cooperative Learning Activity Directions We encourage you or another adult to be in charge of the key, but for older students, this can work as a peer activity. In either case, students learn to ask for help decoding each letter until they uncover the silly answer. By completing the lesson, ... Read more
Acts of Kindness Worksheets for Kids
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Empathy Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Kindness Worksheets Activity Instructions Part One: This worksheet will help students brainstorm kind words to use when communicating with other people. Prep: Print this worksheet and share it with your students. Prompt: Start a conversation with your students about kind words and why we should use them. Some suggested questions to use include: Ask your students to fill in the thought bubbles with kind words they would ... Read more
Social Emotional Learning Journal
Additional Resources Books
Personal Space Worksheets for Students in Elementary School
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Communication, Cooperation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: None Personal Space Lesson Instructions Prompt: “Today we are going to talk about personal space. Does anyone know what this means? * Allow students to respond * General space is the entire area of the room you are in. Personal space is the area around your body. It is a bubble between you and people near you. Here are some examples: * Have ... Read more
Holiday Printables for Social and Emotional Learning
When a holiday is coming up, it can be hard for everyone to remain focussed amid the excitement. We’re here to help! As the calendar turns and anticipation builds, our holiday printables will take your students beyond traditional coloring sheets and word searches, keeping them engaged, learning, and having fun! Whether they’re practicing non-verbal communication with jack-o-lantern expressions, healing hearts with thoughtful Valentines, or spreading a little cheer with compliment strips, students will benefit from ... Read more
Peer Pressure Activities
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Communication, Cooperation, Empathy Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Peer Pressure Activity Instructions Begin the activity by discussing how cooperation is a necessary skill, but sometimes it’s actually important not to cooperate. You can ask them if they can think of examples where it might be a bad idea to cooperate. You can explain that working together should make you feel good. If you do something you know is ... Read more
Social Skills Group Activities
On this page, you will find free social skills group activities that are appropriate for students in elementary and middle school. In addition, you can find a broader selection of individual and social skills group activities here. Note: Educators are free to use these activities with students via other platforms like Google Classroom as needed. Social Skills Group Activities: Team Tasks Students Will Materials Pre-Discussion Activity Directions Post Discussion Go over the following questions with the ... Read more
Emotional Regulation Activities
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary SEL Skill(s): Emotion Regulation, Cooperation Duration: 30 minutes per worksheet Materials: Emotional Regulation Activities Instructions Prompt: Ask students to share a time something didn’t go according to plan. Continue with: Next, have students share with a partner how they would feel and what they would do if: Say: “Making a mistake or facing an unexpected challenge can cause strong feelings. It’s important that we think flexibly, or with open minds for ... Read more