Download and print both color and black-and-white anchor charts and posters to use in your classroom or school.
Download and print both color and black-and-white anchor charts and posters to use in your classroom or school.
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the different levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as important foundational knowledge for understanding “well-being.”
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the 5 areas of well-being: physical, social, emotional, mental, and academic.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to understand their basic needs of food, water, shelter, safety, and love.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand that there are two types of safety. Physical safety includes anything that protects us from physical harm. Psychological safety includes creating a safe place at school to learn, to ask questions, and to try new things.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to practice strategies to help them genuinely connect with others and form healthy relationships where they feel love, belonging, and connection.
The purpose of this lesson is to give students an opportunity to explore their individual and family background, culture, values, and beliefs as well as how those have changed over time. Additionally, students will explore various other cultures and examine how culture creates a sense of belonging.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to deepen their understanding of themselves, including how they can use their strengths at home, at school, and beyond. Students will explore self-awareness and think about ways to use their strengths by serving others.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to recognize and celebrate the strengths of others.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to help build a positive classroom community.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn nutritional information about various foods and beverages so they can make informed decisions and develop healthy eating habits.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the importance of exercise and develop enjoyable exercise routines.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students to practice good self-care and hygiene strategies.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to establish healthy attitudes, beliefs, and expectations about avoiding drugs and other addictive substances or behaviors.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to become an upstander within bullying scenarios.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to use personal space and boundaries to help themselves and others feel safe. Students will read about personal space, articulate their personal space preferences, model non-examples of socially acceptable physical closeness, assess their confidence in setting boundaries, set a goal to set or strengthen a boundary, and discuss physical touch and safety.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to determine how genuine kindness can help cultivate deeper, more authentic connections.
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to learn and think deeply about the importance of empathy in their own lives. Students will contemplate the obstacles related to showing and giving empathy to someone else. In addition, students will learn strategies to further develop and apply empathy in their lives.
The purpose of this lesson is to review different kinds of communication. In addition, students will research different aspects of good conversation and how balance is required to maintain communication.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to develop active listening skills while participating in true back-and-forth dialogue.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to reflect on how their words impact others and how they can use their words in respectful ways. Students will reflect on personal experiences with words, commit to using school-appropriate language, discuss the importance of honoring differences with their language, research the history behind common slang terms, practice adapting their language to various contexts, and debate the accuracy of an old adage.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students explore the complex idea of identity and how it relates to respect. Students will be able to recognize and celebrate their own identity and culture as well as the unique identities and cultures around them.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to discuss the role that perspective taking plays in their social well-being. They will zoom in and out to analyze art, brainstorm ways to be “unreasonably hospitable,” discuss sharing opinions in safe spaces, play a game involving perspective taking, and compare historic events from various perspectives.
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students strategies that will help them with collaboration as well as give them opportunities to practice them. Students will consider what is required for healthy and productive collaboration. In addition, students will learn how critical thinking and communication skills are essential for effective collaboration.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to discuss and practice conflict resolution strategies. Students will collaboratively define conflict, explain how to resolve different types of conflict, identify conflict styles, articulate the benefits of conflict, analyze debate techniques, and present research on various conflict topics to their peers.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to build leadership skills and take on leadership opportunities. Students will define leadership, self-assess based on leadership traits, persuade school administrators to provide additional leadership opportunities at their school, reflect on everyday leadership opportunities, create a P.S.A. that promotes everyday leadership, and design a brochure about self-leadership competencies.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students build the foundation for emotional awareness. Students will practice naming emotions, research new emotional words, consider the history of human emotions, connect emotional identification and regulation, apply the STOP technique, and test a variety of emotional regulation strategies.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to recognize the need to identify and regulate their own emotions. Students will discuss how to regulate with the S.T.O.P. technique, identify synonyms for emotions, curate favorite mindfulness resources, explain why we should give ourselves permission to feel, problem-solve with emotionally-charged school situations, and practice letting go of negative self-talk.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students explore habits of happiness and how they can deliberately put into practice these habits to establish a lifestyle of happiness.
The purpose of this lesson is to have students further incorporate gratitude into their daily perspective of their lives. In addition, students will learn to further appreciate the kindness and situations of others.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to develop the mental fortitude necessary to handle the unknowns of life.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to recognize how change impacts their lives and learn to be flexible in adjusting to change.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand that a positive self-image and self-esteem will help them lead a more positive life. Students will define self-image, discuss the role that technology/media can play in comparison, take a self-image assessment, create a work of art to develop more positivity towards themselves, perform positive peer pressure skits, and apply positive peer pressure at their school.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to assess their personal thinking, motivation, and effort. Ultimately, they will consider how to strive for excellence rather than perfection.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to reflect on their thinking, especially any shame-promoting thought patterns.
The purpose of this lesson is to increase awareness about the symptoms of stress on the body, and provide a variety of stress management techniques. There is also a connection between stress and sleep. Each affects the other in both positive and negative ways. This lesson encourages the practice of mindfulness by walking students through mindful activities and helping them reflect on the impact it has on their mental, emotional, and physical selves.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to identify healthy and safe coping strategies to use when facing life’s challenges. Students will identify some big emotions that they struggle with, define positive and negative coping strategies, discuss unsafe coping behaviors and healthier alternatives, create informational posters, and test out coping strategies to find what works best for them.
The purpose of this lesson is to review what students already know about a growth mindset and help them apply a growth mindset to experiences they are having in high school and beyond.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the differences between resilience, perseverance, and grit, as well as how to incorporate it into their own lives.
Critical thinking is an important skill for students to succeed today and in the future. Critical thinking is identified as one of the important 21st-century skills.
The purpose of this lesson is to help broaden students’ view of creativity and how to strengthen it. These activities give them opportunities to tap into their creativity to solve problems that surround them. Additionally, students will learn and experience the benefits of critical thinking and understand the important role of failure through these processes. This lesson includes ways that students can use creativity to naturally solve problems. The lesson ends with a culminating project that will allow students the opportunity to practice what they have learned.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to identify deep learning opportunities as well as engage in deep learning individually and in collaborative groups. Students will define deep learning, identify deep learning opportunities, and connect various energy topics to literacy, math, and visual arts.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to assess their personal motivation and discover strategies to help them when they feel low confidence, boredom, disinterest, or disconnection.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to look at their passions and develop a deep motivation to learn for life. Students will summarize the benefits of lifelong learning, reframe their thinking about school assignments, share their favorite resources and books, develop a plan for one of their passion projects, and highlight an example of a lifelong learner.
The purpose of this lesson is to encourage students to first envision a positive future of who and what they hope to become and achieve, and then to visualize their goals on a vision board. Unless a goal is written or visualized, it can rarely be achieved.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to develop an open mind for feedback and practice giving effective feedback to others. Students will discuss how to receive feedback well, peer review a writing sample, analyze coaching, review a movie, rate a song using their own rubric, and discover feedback within a primary source.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn to use their time well in order to strengthen their well-being.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn about and practice effective study skills. Students will learn about how the brain functions, summarize an article about note-taking, practice note-taking techniques, set a goal to improve their learning mindset, teach a concept to a peer, create test prep materials, and put those materials to use during a focused study session.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn how to stay organized in order to minimize stress and maximize their academic performance. Students will declutter their backpacks, set an organizational goal, rate different planner options, curate their ideal planner, plan their upcoming week, practice email etiquette, and organize their digital files.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn how to overcome test anxiety through proper preparation and mindfulness. Students will explore the symptoms of test anxiety, draft a study schedule for an upcoming exam, journal about anxiety before performing, observe the effects of negative vs. positive thinking, replicate the testing environment in a drawing, and test out some mindfulness exercises.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to explore character traits and practice developing these traits themselves. Students will share real and fictional examples of character traits, identify character strengths illustrated in current news, celebrate character in their classmates, send a personalized message of gratitude, and distribute paper plate awards.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the importance of maintaining high moral standards (character, honesty, integrity) and be able to recognize these traits in others. In addition, students will further examine the impact of good character through a historical and social lens.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand and experience what it means to be dependable and reliable. The activities in this lesson illustrate how we are all dependent on each other and we all contribute to each other’s success.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to apply courage and bravery to any fear that may be getting in the way of their personal growth. Students will reflect on how their comfort zones can hold them back, respond to a journal reflection prompt, analyze the fears in their class, learn about Winston Churchill and Malala Yousafzai, and research other people of courage.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students recognize that they have many choices that impact both their current and future life—specifically, the choices they make at school and in their relationships with others.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students better understand the definition and application of citizenship and civility. Students will explore the different aspects of civility, including compromise and consensus, and apply strategies to various situations in their own life.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn principles of digital citizenship. Students will consider their roles as consumers, creators, and citizens, evaluate their personal technology use, use technology to develop solutions to community problems, evaluate sources, reflect on digital safety, and consider the consequences of their online choices.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students recognize that one of their responsibilities as a citizen of a community is to identify needs and make a difference. Students will examine the 5-step planning process and apply the various steps to a project of their choice.