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Take-Home Skill: Making Amends for Kids
Strategies for parents and caregivers to help their children consider offering reparations as part of their apologies
Understanding the Brain for Grades 4-7
Grade 4-7 students learn about the three parts of the brain that are involved with emotion regulation, attention, and learning.
Take Home Skill: Creating Space for All Emotions
Strategies for parents and caregivers to show their children they love them by helping them to process their emotions
Where We Stand
Students examine how they face everyday moral dilemmas and consider who and what influences their reactions when conflicts arise.
Understanding Prejudice Through Paper Plate Portraits
Students identify others’ assumptions about them and then describe who they really are on the inside.
Dear Abby: An SEL Kernels Practice for Fifth Grade
A discussion that uses scenarios to explore character and citizenship.
Dear Abby: An SEL Kernels Practice for Fourth Grade
A discussion that uses scenarios to explore character and citizenship.
Dear Abby: An SEL Kernels Practice for Third Grade
A discussion that uses scenarios to explore character and citizenship.
Notes to Self: An SEL Kernels Practice for Fifth Grade
Students take time to reflect on positive experiences, attributes, and/or aspirations.
Notes to Self: An SEL Kernels Practice for Fourth Grade
Students take time to reflect on positive experiences, attributes, and/or aspirations.
Notes to Self: An SEL Kernels Practice for Third Grade
Students take time to reflect on positive experiences, attributes, and/or aspirations.
Feelings Circle: An SEL Kernels Practice for Fifth Grade
In a group meeting, students share their feelings while also building their feelings vocabulary and emotion knowledge.
Feelings Circle: An SEL Kernels Practice for Fourth Grade
In a group meeting, students share their feelings while also building their feelings vocabulary and emotion knowledge.
Feelings Circle: An SEL Kernels Practice for Third Grade
In a group meeting, students share their feelings while also building their feelings vocabulary and emotion knowledge.
Sing It with Style: An SEL Kernels Brain Game
A game to develop students’ self-control by managing how they sing a familiar song
Wait for It: An SEL Kernels Brain Game
A game to develop students’ self-control by waiting before doing a series of motions.
Simon Says: An SEL Kernels Brain Game
A game to develop students’ self-control by listening for a key phrase before doing an action
Silly Stories: An SEL Kernels Brain Game
A game to develop students’ self-control by doing the correct (silly) motion instead of the automatic one
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