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The activities below are available for free download, and are to be used in educational and/or private settings. They may not be used elsewhere or for other purposes (such as for profit) unless explicit permission is granted.
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More activities are being added to this page regularly, so make sure to check back for more. And if you like the activities below, don't miss my activity books, GIVE THIS BOOK A TITLE and GIVE THIS BOOK A COVER, available wherever books are sold!
Click on the numbers below to find a variety of different blank comic book pages. Each number corresponds to a different arrangement of panels on the page. Print out a few of each, or a bunch of one kind, and make your own comic!

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So you are looking to add social emotional learning activities to your upper elementary classroom, but aren't sure where to start? It doesn't have to be complicated or another boxed curriculum. Focus on adding simple SEL routines to your day and engaging activities like the ones below to help students practice age-expected SEL skills.

Learning when to ask for help and how is a lifelong skill we can start practicing early with social emotional learning activities.

First, we have to encourage and teach students to think about their learning (i.e., metacognition). After activities ask students some questions to help them reflect on their learning. What went well? Where did they get stuck? Before an activity have students think of what they could do if they get stuck.

I've had teachers use a visual on every students' desk. visual. One side was green and the other was red. When a student needed help, they flipped the card over to the red side. This was a simple, nonverbal way to ask for help.

ACTIVITY: Ask students to write down two things they struggle with in school and two things they consider strengths. Give them an example or provide them with a bank of choices.

I have a really hard time staying organized and losing games. I am good at spelling and making friends.

Read aloud some of the challenges and have students give advice. Next, make a list of the strengths and have students raise their hand if they are someone others can come to for help.

Resource: School Success SEL Lesson

We also have situations that make us angry and this isn't the same for everyone. Maybe I get angry when someone is late, but it doesn't bother you.

ACTIVITY: Create a checklist of common events that make your students angry. Have each student check off ones that make them upset. You can have all the students stand up and move to different parts of the room. This will help show students that there are others who feel the same way they do. It will also show them even though something isn't a big deal to them, it might be a big deal to someone else.

Try this simple craft activity to help students understand their anger triggers.

Upper elementary is a great time to start talking about healthy habits and self care. Self care isn't just the occasional bubble bath. It is also creative activities, time with others, or time for yourself. For self care for kids and adults, you can define it as:

Things you do every week or every day (Consistent)

Helps you feel calm or happy (Positive)

Helps you handle hard things and feel good (Helpful)

ACTIVITY: Have students brainstorm self care habits they can do that week. Then choose one or two they will try out. Reflect at the end of the week about how the activities helped or didn't help. Check out this post on self care habits for kids and download the healthy habits free digital resource.

Learning to set and monitor goals is another great social emotional learning activity for elementary. Heck, I'm still working on this one.

Students can learn about setting goals, brainstorm their own goals, and break goals into small chunks or mini-goals.

ACTIVITY: Take a piece of paper and have students draw a path from their starting point to their goal. Break the path into individual tiles and write down the mini goals on each tile. They can color in each tile as they make their way to their final goal. If they decide to change some of their mini-goals along the way, have them create a new branch in their path and write out new mini-goals. This is a great way to show progress when students are working on bigger goals.

5. Acts of Kindness

Kindness Bingo or a Kindness Calendar gets students thinking about how they can show kindness to others in their class, school, home, or community. I love the idea of having a Kindness Jar in the classroom filled with kind acts students can do right away.

ACTIVITY: On Monday morning, students can choose one kind act they will do that week. Post them on a bulletin board when they are complete or petals in a kindness garden bulletin board.
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6. Stress Busters

Start the day with deep breaths explain how it can help relieve stress or overwhelm.

Cloud breaths are a variation of shape breathing. You may be familiar with magic 8 breathing or star breathing. Students trace the shape as they slowly breathe in and out. I like to use a cloud since you can associate it with a calming activity. You can also have students picture laying in the grass and staring up at the clouds while they slowly breathe in and out.

7. Playground Plan

Recess can be one of the most challenging times for students socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. There is a lot to negotiate and not a ton of structure. It is also a great opportunity to foster social-emotional skills.

As a class, create a playground plan that helps carryover relevant classroom rules and culture. For example, what is the plan for making sure everyone is included? How will we handle disagreements? How do you pick who goes first in a game? What do you do when you can't find anyone to play with?

8. Active Listening

Active listening is essential for school success and is also a key social skill. Define and model for students what active listening looks like.

Stopping what you are doing and looking at the person that is talking.

Looking at the person, nodding, or saying "hmm mmm" while the person is talking.

Ask questions about what the person said.

ACTIVITY: Pair students up. Have them tell each other about their weekends. Students have an opportunity to ask questions and then they have to tell the class about their partner's weekend in a few sentences.

9. Personal Values

Personal values are what you think is important and what you believe in strongly. Everyone has a unique set of values. Your values are linked to how you behave and think. It can be helpful to have students explore their developing values.

ACTIVITY:Create a list of 20+ things people value like honesty, fairness, popularity. Have students:

1. Circle 7 values that are important to you.

2. Pick two of those as your top values and put a star next to them.

3. Cross out a value that isn't important to you at all.

4. Reflect and share with your classmates.

Resource: Personal Values SEL Lesson

10. Decision Making

Decision making is something that doesn't really come naturally. Students make plenty of decisions, but are rarely doing so in a though out way. You can teach them a simple step by step process for making every day decisions.

First, what is the decision you have to make?

What is important to you about this decision?

How do you want things to work out?

How do you want to feel?

How do you want others to feel?

Next, brainstorm all the solutions or choices you could make.

What are the positives and negatives of each choice?

Which one feels best to you?

Choose the one that most closely matches what is important to you and will lead to the best outcome.

Give them simple, familiar problems such as things that happen at recess. Let them work through the decision making process step by step.

Social emotional learning is best implemented by being weaved into your day through simple activities and routines. What social emotional skills will be helpful for your students? What activities can you easily add into your day?

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I've always felt that social and emotional education should be a core part of any gifted curriculum. Too often, I think we assume gifted children will learn social and emotional skills without direct instruction, discussion, and reflection.

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"[Nature journaling] is a natural way for parents and teachers to integrate the mystery of nature into the lives of children." -Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, in his review of How to Teach Nature Journaling

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Pixar's is a movie that's all about feelings, and this makes it perfect for sparking discussions with kids about social and emotional learning. Since the central characters all embody a different emotion, students learn to see parts of themselves or their experiences in each character.

Refreshingly, the movie doesn't make learning about emotions such a heavy-handed endeavor. By getting to know and love each character, students naturally come to understand that emotions are complex, and that we need the entire range of feelings to fully capture the meaning of life experiences.

Things to Know Before You Show Pixar's Inside Out to Your Students

This guide offers two different approaches to teaching Inside Out:

1. Show a few specific clips along with discussion questions.

2. Show the entire film with a more in-depth lesson plan and handout.

Feel free to use either approach, or even combine the two into one lesson (or an entire unit) based around the movie. If you only have a single class period, showing just a few key clips below might be perfect. If you decide to help students delve deeper into the topic, you might show the entire film and have more extensive discussions over multiple days. Of course, you could also use some combination of the two, adapting the lesson to best suit your class's needs.

Lesson Objectives

This lesson is designed to align with the CASEL 5 competencies for social and emotional learning as well as various t hinking routines from the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero.

With this lesson, you can help your students:

Identify their own feelings.

Think through what it means for emotions to have context.

Acknowledge the value of having a range of emotions.

Connect their own personal experiences to the movie's messages.

Identify their own perspective, and be curious about the perspectives of others.

Explore the ways they identify their own emotions, including somatically.

Think about the ways they currently self-regulate, and explore possibilities for other ways.

Think about helpful versus unhelpful responses to emotions from themselves and others.

Inside Out Clips and SEL Discussion Questions for Students

If you only want to show brief parts of the film and discuss them with students, use these helpful clips to get you started. You can also use these in conjunction with the longer lesson plan below.

The time stamps can help you pick and choose your areas of focus. Use as few or as many clips as you see fit, but keep in mind that you may need to introduce the movie's overall plot and talk through some of what happens before or after each clip.
Clip #1: When Dad says Riley can't have dessert if she doesn't eat her broccoli, Anger "blows his top." (3:48-4:06)

Use this scene to talk about idioms. Have kids draw another emotion-related idiom (ex. cry your eyes out, bent out of shape, spaced out, down in the dumps, etc.).
Clip #2: Joy explains core memories and how they feed the "islands of personality." (4:37-6:38)

Have students draw and/or write about their core memories and/or their own islands of personality.
Clip #3: Riley sees her new house, and she experiences a range of emotions. (8:43-9:50)

Discuss: How do emotions influence how Riley feels about the new house? How can she go from feeling sad about her new room to feeling excited about how it will look? The room didn't change -- what did change, and how?
Clip #4: A joyful memory becomes sad, as Riley remembers a moment from the trip. (11:51-12:54)

As we grow up, sometimes feelings get more complicated. In this scene, a memory that was purely happy becomes sad. In the movie, this is caused by Sadness touching the memory. Ask students: In the real world, why might sadness "touch" a memory?

Explain to students that this movie was inspired by a real 11-year-old. Her dad wanted to show what it's like to have complicated feelings as you grow up. Ask students: Do you think he did a good job? What would you do differently?

Clip #5: Joy argues with the other emotions about how Riley should feel on the first night after the move, using the phrase, "It could be worse." (16:01-17:14)

Riley has her own room in a house in San Francisco, which is more than many people have. Ask students: Is Joy right -- could it be worse? Should Riley not feel angry, sad, or scared? Does thinking about how things could be worse change how you feel? Why or why not?
Clip #6: Mom thanks Riley for being their "happy little girl" and wants them both to keep smiling for Dad. (17:10-18:06)

Riley isn't feeling happy when her mom calls her their "happy little girl." She wants Riley to "put on a happy face." Ask students: Have you ever kept smiling even when you weren't happy? What did it feel like? Did it help the situation? Did it help you?
Clip #7: Joy asks Sadness to stay confined inside of a circle and not participate in Riley's first day at her new school. (20:50-21:27)

Joy wants to keep Sadness in a tiny circle during Riley's first day at her new school. Ask students: What's the result? In real life, can we keep our emotions exactly where we want them?
Clip #8: Riley starts crying in class as she talks about her home in Minnesota, and Joy tries to prevent a sad memory from becoming a core memory. (22:09-26:08)

Even though she didn't want to, Riley cries in class. Ask students: How much control do we actually have over our emotions?
Clip #9: Without Joy around, Riley snaps at her parents during dinner, and her dad "puts his foot down." We also get a peek into her parents' emotional headquarters. (26:26-30:08)

The movie doesn't focus on the parents' feelings or experiences much. Ask students: How do you think Riley's parents are feeling about the move or having new jobs? How do you think they feel about making Riley move? What are the emotions in charge for Mom? For Dad? Why do you think people react to the same situation in different ways?
Clip #10: Mind workers vacuum up faded memories to send them to the memory dump. (34:39-36:04)

Use this opportunity to briefly talk with students about how the movie uses examples from real parts of brain science, like long-term memory, abstract thought, and dreaming. Another example is the brain "getting rid of" unused information.

Have students pick one element of brain science to represent in a drawing (or any other type of creative output). Some other examples include learning, processing the senses, and daydreaming, among many others.)

Clip #11: While talking to her friend from Minnesota, Riley suddenly feels angry. (36:00-36:36)

Ask students: After Riley slams her computer, how do you think her friend felt? When we lose control of our feelings and do something that hurts someone else, we may not have meant to hurt them. If we didn't mean to, are we still responsible? What can we do next?
Clip #12: Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong take a shortcut through Abstract Thought. (41:40-43:35)

An abstract thought is something that's not concrete -- or not easy to explain -- like love or loneliness. Ask students: How did the movie makers show us what abstract thought is?

Have students take an abstract idea and show it in a concrete way in a drawing (or any other type of creative output).

Clip #13: Riley's hockey tryout is very frustrating and upsetting. (45:16-46:50)

Ask students: Riley is good at hockey and usually enjoys it, so why are the tryouts so hard?
Clip #14: Both Joy and Sadness try to comfort Bing Bong when his wagon is thrown in the dump, and Sadness is the one to succeed. (47:04-49:39)

Having empathy is about understanding what someone else is feeling. Ask students: Why does Bing Bong respond to Sadness but not Joy?

Ask students: Why are movies a great way to see other people's perspectives and practice using empathy?

Clip #15: Joy and Bing Bong are stuck in the memory dump. Joy feels sad herself (and realizes that emotions work together), and Bing Bong sacrifices himself to make sure Joy can escape. (1:06:27-1:13:35)

Ask students: What does Joy realize as she holds Riley's memory the moments after losing the hockey game? Why does Bing Bong decide to let himself fade away?

Introduce students to the idea of nostalgia. Ask them: When you think about happy memories from when you were little that may be fading, how do you feel?

Clip #16: Riley's parents realize she's gone -- Riley struggles with her decision, returns home, then shares her sadness with her parents. (1:13:40-1:23:54)

Explain that Riley choosing to run away and try to get back to Minnesota is one way to deal with her feelings. Then ask students: What's the impact of that choice? What are some other ways she could have expressed her feelings?

Inside Out SEL Lesson Plan and Graphic Organizer

Begin by introducing the movie and give students some context about why it's worth thinking about more deeply. A lot of students may have seen the movie already since it came out in 2015, so make a strict "If you know it, don't blow it" rule to prevent spoilers. You might also want to discuss some of the learning objectives or the concept of active viewing.

Before the Movie

Hand out copies of theInside Out Active Viewing Guide, and give students a few minutes to finish the Before You Watch question.

Students will be listing emotions and circling the emotions they see as "good" or "positive." Importantly, they'll return to this after the movie and reflect on it in the last question. It's essential that students do both the first and last questions on the handout so as not to reinforce misconceptions about emotions or feelings being inherently good or bad.

For a more interactive experience, you can have kids create a "positive emotion" word cloud using Kahoot or another tool of your choice.

Before you start the movie, explain the next activity that students will complete while they watch. They'll need to pick a moment that has great use of color and/or music, and make a sketch of it.

During the Movie

Make sure to pause periodically at key scenes throughout the movie (feel free to use the clips outlined above in this article). As you pause and discuss, give students time to do some sketching.

After the Movie

Have students complete the After You Watch activities.

Students can write down their responses individually, then discuss in pairs, small groups, and/or as a whole class.

Discussion Questions:

After the movie ends, it's important to help students reflect on what they've seen and talk about what they're thinking. You can discuss anything that feels particularly relevant to your students. The scenes and discussion questions listed earlier in this article can be a good starting point, but feel free to guide your class discussion as you see fit.

Creative Extensions

Ask students to imagine what their own memory storage system is like: How are their memories categorized? Where do their memories all go? What does the system look like?

Have students think of a memory they have that started out one way but feels a different way now. Using color, create something that show the feelings they have from this memory, and how they've changed over time.

Watch another movie that explores similar themes but from a different cultural perspective. Invite students to consider how these movies tackle universal themes, but in different ways given who they represent and how (e.g. the family in Inside Out is a contemporary upper-middle-class White family in the city, and the family in My Neighbor Totoro is Japanese and lives a more modest life in rural, post-war Japan).

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Creative writing is a challenge for many students, often because they can't come up with anything to write about. That's why we love picture writing prompts. Each one sparks the imagination and helps young writers jump right into crafting a story to match. We've rounded up a whole collection of intriguing images for use with kids in grades K-12.

Tip: Start by showing students the picture (or let them choose from among several) without making any comment about what they're seeing. For kids who still struggle to get started, suggest a potential title or opening sentence, like the examples included here.

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Elementary Picture Writing Prompts

When kids first see these picture writing prompts, they may or may not immediately feel inspired. If they need some help, ask them questions like "What led up to this moment?" or "What's going to happen next?"

Finally Seeing Eye to Eye

"So, we meet at last, face to face," Lord Squeakerton said to his enemy, the Count of Catnip.

What?!?

It takes a lot to surprise a monkey, but you don't see something like this every day.

Not Coming Out

The day started out normally enough, but by the end, Chris knew he was in over his head.

Life on Other Planets

"Hurry up," Grnklor told his robopup. "We have to get back inside before nightfall."

Reindeer Games

The wind had died down, but the setting sun seemed to take all the warmth of the day with it.

Something to Celebrate

Their classmates could hear their shouts of joy from all the way down the hall.

Home Sweet Mushroom

When the fairies that lived in the garden invited her to stay with them for awhile, Maria wasn't sure what to expect.

Loch Ness Mystery

"There it is! I told you, Nessie is real!" Angus whispered to Lee.

Lonely Bear

It was hard to say who was lonelier that night, Amil or his lost stuffed bear, Jasper.

Sometimes You Lose

When his team lost the championship, Miguel was crushed, but it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.

Middle School Picture Writing Prompts

Middle school writing prompts can be a little more complex, with pictures that have a lot of potential interpretations. Encourage students to delve deeper into the story by describing how the characters feel and why they behave the way they do.

Octopus's Garden

Wouldn't you like to be under the sea, in an octopus's garden in the shade?

Around the Corner

After finally pressing "send," she couldn't resist peeking around the corner to watch him read the text.

Beam Me Up!

Milo's earliest memory was of watching his beloved tricycle float into the sky above him, caught in a beam of light.

Giraffe Council

"It is now 3 p.m., and I call this meeting of the Mighty Council of Giraffes to order," announced Imari.

Onward

As the sky turned orange, Keisha ran faster than ever, and used the last of her energy to push off and soar over the water below.

The End of Days

Despite their best efforts, they arrived too late-the battle had already begun.

Do Shoes Grow on Trees?

The day I threw my own shoes into the tree was the day I really started to grow up.

Wandering Robots

Everything about NB-317 was made of cardboard, except his heart-that was made of flesh and blood, and very capable of being broken.

Dream Come True

It all started when Quinn watched her favorite movie the night before they assigned partners for the eighth grade science fair project.

Storm at Sea

As the rain lashed his face and lightning tore apart the sky, Kiran had to admit he'd always thought it would be a lot more fun being a pirate.

High School Picture Writing Prompts

High school writers are ready to dig deep, exploring character development and detailed plots. These pictures offer a jumping-off point to set their imaginations free.

First Contact

This was it-the moment that would change what it meant to be human forever.

One Life to Live

His face said his life had been a hard one, but his eyes told a different tale.

Winter Walk

Snow fell, creating a blank canvas to record the story of that fateful walk.

Modern Mary Poppins

She dropped into our lives on a gray day in midwinter, a hint of the spring that was to come.

All That Remains

Dust motes filled the air of the abandoned hallway, replacing the voices once heard there.

The Question

Their happily ever after began quietly, with a bouquet of wildflowers.

Night Lights

Misty rain both blurred and emphasized the lights that lit Suri's way home that evening.

Forest of Fear

At first, Mateo thought it was a joke, but the screams that followed told him there was nothing remotely funny about it.

The Yellow Door

On their 14th birthday, every resident of Fresnia was required to stand before the Wall of Doors and make a choice.

On the Rails

Aliyah stood on the tracks, uncertain of where to go next.

How do you use picture writing prompts in your classroom? Come share ideas and ask for advice in the WeAreTeachers HELPLINE group on Facebook.

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