5 Essential Social Emotional Learning Activities
Do you use these 5 SEL activities? They are simple ways to get started with social emotional learning activities for the classroom.
ReadAbout This Resource
Support students' social and emotional learning with these comprehensive Social Emotional Skill Checklists. This CASEL-aligned resource allows you to take a standards-based, data-driven social emotional learning approach. Whether you're planning lessons or interventions, the checklists provide a structured starting point that is developmentally appropriate.
What's Included
- CASEL Aligned Checklists for Three Grade Bands: Tailored to be developmentally appropriate for K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 students.
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Multiple Formats: Each set is in three user-friendly formats.
- Google Forms for easy data collection.
- Editable PowerPoint you can customize to fit your current programming or start standards.
- PDF Version that is perfect for quick printing and offline access.
- Comprehensive Excel File: An organized compilation of all skills by grade and competency for easy reference.
- Student-Friendly 'I Can' Statements: Each skill and competency has been translated into a student-facing I can statement that can be shared with students what they are working on.
How They Are Setup
Each grade band has the same 5 CASEL competencies and 15 SEL Goals.
For each grade, there are several objectives for each competency and goal. Each objective is translated into an I can statement.
Example
CASEL Competency: Self Awareness
SEL Goal: Has an awareness of own emotions
K-2 Objectives:
- Recognizes and accurately names feelings.
- Identifies and communicates an emotion.
- Identifies emotions and the situations that cause them (i.e., triggers).
K-2 I Can Statements:
- I can spot and name different feelings.
- I can tell someone how I am feeling.
- I can say how something makes me feel.
How to Use Them
You can use these SEL Skill Checklists to plan SEL lessons, add SEL objectives to academic lessons, create interventions, monitor progress, and share objectives with students.
Sources
CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) has established five social emotional learning competencies important to academic and life success. Many states and districts have now developed standards, and there is a great deal of overlap between them. These checklists were compiled, edited, and streamlined using standards published by the following states: Texas, Alaska, Illinois, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Kansas.
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