SEL Resources K-5

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2	Advanced Serious Illness
3	Resources for Living with an Advanced Serious Illness	Dougy Center	https://www.dougy.org/resources/audience/pathways-program	Printables, audios, articles, and activities to do with a youth experiencing a family member with an advanced serious illness
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5	ANGER
6	Anger
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8	Anxiety
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11	Breathing Exercises
12	Breathing Exercises	Hot Cocoa Breathing	https://www.spokaneschools.org/cms/lib/WA50000187/Centricity/Domain/252/Hot%20Chocolate%20Breathing.pdf	Child learns how to deep breathe by the use of an imaginary hot cocoa
13	Breathing Exercises	Finger Tracing: Mindful Breathing	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/finger-tracing-mindful-breathing-for-students/	Students learn to trace the outline of their fingers in rhythm with their in-and-out breath pattern, which helps to develop their attention skills.
14	Breathing Exercises	Smiling Mind	https://www.smilingmind.com.au/smiling-mind-creek	A series of 18x2 minute animated episodes exploring positive mental health and emotional wellbeing lessons for children aged 3 to 8
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16	Building Rapport
17	Building Rapport		https://ggie.berkeley.edu/my-well-being/empathy-for-adults/#tab__3	How to build rapport with students
18	Building Rapport	Responding to Differences	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/responding-to-differences/	Students reflect on the ways people respond to human differences as they journal, read a poem, and engage in a sorting activity. They consider the consequences of people’s responses and how they want their school community respond to difference.
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20	Conflict
21	Conflict	Standing up Against Discrimination	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/standing-up-against-discrimination/	Standing Up Against Discrimination
22	Conflict	What's the Tint of Your Glasses	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/whats-the-tint-of-your-glasses/#tab__1	Students learn how different perspectives result from different backgrounds, building acceptance and valuing differences.
23	Conflict	Where We Stand	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/where-we-stand/#tab__2	Students examine how they face everyday moral dilemmas and consider who and what influences their reactions when conflicts arise.
24	Conflict	Developing a Growth Mindset About Bullies and Victims	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/developing-a-growth-mindset-about-bullies-and-victims/#tab__2	Students apply a “growth mindset” lens to the personalities of bullies and their victims, recognizing that people can change.
25	Conflict	Developing a Growth Mindset About People’s Ability to Change	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/developing-a-growth-mindset-about-peoples-ability-to-change/	Students apply a “growth mindset” lens to people who exclude others and/or are victims of exclusion, recognizing that people can change for the better.
26	Conflict	PBIS-Buster's Growing Grudge	https://pbskids.org/arthur/friends/busters-grudge	youth learn about conflict and forgiveness through an interactive game
27	Conflict	PBIS-So Funny I Forgot to Laugh	https://pbskids.org/arthur/friends/so-funny	Students learn how to apologize after their mistakes
28	Conflict	Bullying Prevention in Positive Behavior Support: Expect Respect	https://www.pbis.org/tools/all-tools#bullying-prevention	PBIS- Using Universal "Stop" languages to stop bullying
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31	Cultivating A Positive Classroom Climate For Students
32	Cultivating A Positive Classroom	Making Kinder Classrooms and Schools	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/making-kinder-classrooms-and-schools/#tab__2	Staff evaluate school spaces and alter as necessary to subtly cue kind behavior, particularly in students.
33	Cultivating A Positive Classroom	Overcoming Obstacles to an Open Heart	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/overcoming-obstacles-to-an-open-heart/#tab__2	School staff build their capacity to create relationship-centered classrooms by discussing with each other what opens and closes their hearts in the classroom. The session closes with participants making their own plan for cultivating an open heart.
34	Cultivating A Positive Classroom Climate	Giving Wise Feedback	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/giving-wise-feedback/#tab__2	A method for teachers to give feedback to students that builds students’ academic mindset, trust, and positive identity.
35	Cultivating A Positive Classroom Climate	It Gets Better	https://itgetsbetter.org/blog/lesson/workingitout2/	Working It Out- Pronouns
36	Cultivating A Positive Classroom Climate	Signals and Routines for Unwanted Behavior	https://www.pbis.org/topics/bullying-prevention	Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports (PBIS) discusses the importance of creating universal signals for students to utilize in times of unwanted behvior
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39	Empathy
40	Empathy	Introducing Empathy	https://changingperspectivesnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PREK-UE-introducing-empathy-1.pdf	This lesson introduces young learners to the concept of empathy and how they can use empathy to learn about and help others.
41	Empathy	Be the Change: Performing Acts of Kindness	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/be-the-change/#tab__2	Students watch a video about an anonymous group of students’ “random acts of kindness,” and then they plan ways to perform their own acts of kindness
42	Empathy	Family Busines	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/family-business/#tab__2	Students and their teacher create a safe space in which students tell their stories and listen to their classmates’ stories without judgment or fear of retribution.
43	Empathy	Kindness Buddy	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/kindness-buddy/	Students get a secret kindness buddy to do a kind act for during the week. At the end of the week, they reveal their buddies and reflect on how it felt to be kind.
44	Empathy	Put Down the Put Downs	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/put-down-the-put-downs/#tab__2	Students reflect on and listen to the feelings generated by put-downs (hurtful names and behavior), and brainstorm approaches to ending this problem in the classroom.
45	Empathy	Responding to Differences	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/responding-to-differences/	Students reflect on the ways people respond to human differences as they journal, read a poem, and engage in a sorting activity. They consider the consequences of people’s responses and how they want their school community respond to difference.
46	Empathy	Understanding Prejudice Through Paper Plate Portraits	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/understanding-prejudice-through-paper-plate-portraits/	By reflecting on the difference between what others might assume about them and how they truly are on the inside, students can better understand issues related to prejudice and stereotypes and why it is important that we all challenge biased assumptions.
47	Empathy	Understanding Prejudice Through Paper Plate Portraits	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/understanding-prejudice-through-paper-plate-portraits/	By reflecting on the difference between what others might assume about them and how they truly are on the inside, students can better understand issues related to prejudice and stereotypes and why it is important that we all challenge biased assumptions.
48	Empathy	What's the Tint of Your Glasses	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/whats-the-tint-of-your-glasses/#tab__1	Students learn how different perspectives result from different backgrounds, building acceptance and valuing differences.
49	Empathy	Where We Stand	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/where-we-stand/#tab__2	Students examine how they face everyday moral dilemmas and consider who and what influences their reactions when conflicts arise.
50	Empathy	Developing a Growth Mindset About Bullies and Victims	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/developing-a-growth-mindset-about-bullies-and-victims/#tab__2	Students apply a “growth mindset” lens to the personalities of bullies and their victims, recognizing that people can change.
51	Empathy	PBIS-Dear Adil	https://pbskids.org/arthur/friends/dear-adil	Students learn the effects of stereotypes
52	Empathy	PBIS-So Funny I forgot to laugh	https://pbskids.org/arthur/friends/so-funny	Students learn the difference between joking and bullying
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54	Gratitude
55	Gratitude	Sharing Gratitude Stories	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/sharing-gratitude-stories/	Pairs of students tell each other about a time they each felt grateful.
56	Gratitude	Looking For Gratitude In School	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/looking-for-gratitude-in-school/	Students take a silent walk around school, noticing people for whom they are grateful and then expressing their gratitude to those people
57	Gratitude	Kindness Buddy	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/kindness-buddy/	Students get a secret kindness buddy to do a kind act for during the week. At the end of the week, they reveal their buddies and reflect on how it felt to be kind.
58	Gratitude	Meaningful Photos for Students	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/meaningful-photos-for-students/	Students spend 15 minutes a day for one week taking photos of or sketching things that bring meaning to their lives, and then finish with a written reflection that asks them what each photo or drawing represents and why it’s meaningful.
59	Gratitude	Flipping Complaints Into Gratitude	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/flipping-complaints-into-gratitude/#tab__2	Students practice turning complaints into gratitude statements, and learn they have a choice to replace negative thoughts with more positive and optimistic ones
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61	Grief
62	Grief	Support After A Mass Tragedy	https://www.dougy.org/resources/cause-of-death/mass-tragedies	Audios, articles, and videos discussing how to support youth after a mass tragedy
63	Grief	Dougy Center	https://www.dougy.org/resources/audience/kids?how=&who=&type=&age=0-6	Printables, audios, articles, and activities to do with youth ages 0-5
64	Grief	Dougy Center	https://www.dougy.org/resources/audience/kids?how=&who=&type=&age=6-12	Printables, audios, articles, and activities to do with youth ages 6-12
65	Grief	Dougy Center	https://www.dougy.org/resources/audience/kids?how=&who=&type=activities&age=	Acitivites to do with youth of all ages
66	Grief	Dougy Center	https://www.dougy.org/resources/audience/parents-caregivers	Audios, articles, videos, and activities for the loss of a family member
67	Grief	Dougy Center	https://www.dougy.org/resources/audience/duelo-apoyo-recursos-y-grupos	Spanish printable, articles, videos, and activities for the loss of a family member
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69	Grounding
70	Grounding	5-4-3-2-1	https://copingskillsforkids.com/blog/2016/4/27/coping-skill-spotlight-5-4-3-2-1-grounding-technique	Helps students use their senses to pull them to the present moment
71	Grounding	Shake It Off	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/shake-it-off/	Children practice tightening and releasing muscles
72	Grounding	Not OK App	https://www.notokapp.com/	notOK App® is a free digital panic button to get you immediate support via text, phone call, or GPS location when you’re struggling to reach out.
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74	Identifying Emotions
75	Identifying Emotions	The Color Monster	http://www.elementaryschoolcounseling.org/identifying-and-expressing-feelings.html	After reading the book "The Color Monster" follow an activity on the website that helps in identifying the many emotions a person can have
76	Identifying Emotions	Our Animals	http://www.elementaryschoolcounseling.org/identifying-and-expressing-feelings.html	Helps in identifying emotions through the use of a stuffed animal and mirroring their feelings onto the stuffed animal by descibing how they believe the stuffed animal feels
77	Identifying Emotions	Flipping Our Lid	https://theresponsivecounselor.com/2021/06/teaching-kids-about-flipping-their-lids.html	Helps children identify when they are experiencing a change in their emotions through the use of animal characters
78	Identifying Emotions	Wheel of Emotions	https://changingperspectivesnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-5-SEL-SFA-wheel-of-emotions-1.pdf	Provides an outline of how to implement the curriculum and the wheel
79	Identifying Emotions	Guess The Feeling With Daniel The Tiger	https://pbskids.org/daniel/games/guess-the-feeling/	Describes feelings and has the child guess the feeling
80	Identifying Emotions	Overcoming Obstacles to an Open Heart	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/overcoming-obstacles-to-an-open-heart/#tab__2	School staff build their capacity to create relationship-centered classrooms by discussing with each other what opens and closes their hearts in the classroom. The session closes with participants making their own plan for cultivating an open heart.
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82	Leadership
83	Leadership	Let's Get Ethical	https://changingperspectivesnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/6-8-SEL-RDM-lets-get-ethical.pdf	Every decision has pros and cons, so how do you choose what is best? As we encourage middle school students to become tomorrow’s leaders, it is important that we provide them with space and time to discuss their ethical responsibilities when making decisions.
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85	LGBTQ+
86	Mental Health	IMI	https://imi.guide/	imi is a tool for LGBTQ+ teens, by LGBTQ+ teens and their allies to help you explore your identity and support your mental health. imi was created through a collaboration with Hopelab and CenterLink.
87	Encouragement for Mental Health	It Gets Better Project	https://itgetsbetter.org/about/	In 2010, LGBTQ+ people and their allies all over the world uttered three words that would give rise to a global movement — it gets better. A wildly successful social media campaign was born, with more than 70,000 people sharing their stories to provide hope and encouragement to young LGBTQ+ people.
88	It Gets Better	Project Contrast	https://itgetsbetter.org/blog/lesson/full-collection/	Check out our full collection of original EduGuides here. We have options for video series, films, books, TV series, and more. You're bound to find something perfect for your classroom!
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90	Mental Health Awareness
91	Mental Health Awareness	Each Mind Matters	https://emmresourcecenter.org/resources/may-mental-health-matters-month-2019-activation-toolkit	May is Mental Health Matters Month Activation Kit
92	Mental Health Awareness	Directing Change	https://directingchange.org/main/	Our mission is to educate young people about critical health topics through the medium of film and promote social justice by changing conversations in schools and communities.
93	Mental Health Awareness	SanaMente	https://www.sanamente.org/	Mental health movement for spanish speakers
94	Mental Health Awareness	Out of the Darkness Walk	https://supporting.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=cms.page&id=1579&eventGroupID=9AA117B3-F522-BB6D-359D1AA2D75A7958&cmsContentSetID=88FE98C1-DDB2-887E-9ABEC377E2B94CAC	The Community Walks, held in hundreds of cities across the country, are the core of the Out of the Darkness movement, which began in 2004. These events give people the courage to open up about their own connections to the cause, and a platform to create a culture that’s smarter about mental health. Friends, family members, neighbors and coworkers walk side-by-side, supporting each other and in memory of those we’ve lost.
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98	Mindfulness
99	Mindfulness	Check-In Circle for Community Building	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/school-relationships/positive-peer-relationships/#tab__3	Students or staff sit in a circle, center themselves with a Mindfulness Moment, and use a talking piece to respectfully take turns answering a question about how they are doing. They close the Circle process by reflecting on the effectiveness of the process itself.
100	Mindfulness	Loving-Kindness for Someone You Care About	https://ggie.berkeley.edu/practice/loving-kindness-for-someone-you-care-about/#tab__1	Encourage students’ feelings of loving-kindness by focusing on an easy target—someone they care about; then ask them to offer kindness to themselves.