Social Emotional Learning Common Core Educational Resources

Use this reflective writing worksheet to encourage a growth mindset in students and strengthen important social emotional skills!

Foster self-awareness, gratitude, and stress-management skills with this social emotional worksheet. This three-page activity prompts children to reflect on the word "beauty" and compile a list of things they are grateful for in their life.

Children build their understanding of synonyms in this SEL-meets-vocabulary worksheet.

How do you feel when you're with your friends and family? Answer this question and more about feelings by filling in the blanks to complete the sentences.

Help your child make sense of their feelings by creating an emotions wheel. Students will reflect on a time when they have felt each of the emotions listed around the wheel, then they will create drawings to illustrate those times.

Encourage students to explore the notion of identity with this reflective writing and drawing prompt!

Help students make body-mind connections by creating an emotions body map! They'll use different colors to signal different emotions, then color in the parts of the body to show where they feel each emotion.

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Use the Silly Stories: Mindfulness of Emotions worksheet to guide students to create a silly story about how their emotions come and go, just like the changing weather.

This social emotional learning resource is a great tool to open up discussion around mindfulness, such as how to recognize and manage certain kinds of emotions and different feeling words that can be used to describe emotional states.

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

After reading The Way I Act by Steve Metzger, students can apply what they have learned about making healthy choices by choosing and completing two activities from this choice board.

Children will create their own “best self” journal to log moments where they have been at their best. They are guided to find inspiring quotes and images, decorate their journal, and use the provided prompts to get them started on their journaling.

Help students practice seeing and understanding through others' eyes by participating in scenarios that illustrate different points of view. Students will work in groups to understand and discuss the differing perspectives that arise in difficult situatio

Use the How to Use Kind Words worksheet to teach students the steps to take in using kind words with others, then have them practice while interacting with each other.

With this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners will consider different scenarios and explore how making healthy choices makes them feel.

Use the Mentors: Mindfulness of Anger worksheet to have students teach others how mindfulness can help them cope with anger.

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

Children will select from a word bank of descriptive emotion words to write about their feelings, then use them to create a unique word search puzzle.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

Children will enjoy reflecting on a few of their favorite people with this fun drawing and writing prompt.

In this social emotional worksheet, young learners will practice recognizing and communicating emotions by creating their own mood meter to use at home.

In this fun social emotional learning worksheet, My Superhero Senses, students learn how listening can be a superpower.

Help students tune into their emotions by writing their own haiku poem. First, kids will learn a bit about haikus and read a sample. Then, they'll brainstorm a list of words related to emotions before drafting their own emotions haiku.

Children will go on a nature walk and observe their surroundings, then write a letter to nature, in this two-page mindfulness worksheet.

Your child will first send kind wishes and positive thoughts to loved ones by drawing pictures inside heart images. They will then follow the directions to design and make a bracelet for someone they love and care for.

With a tendency to focus on the negative, it's helpful to learn how to cultivate feelings of positivity, joy, and calmness. Children will practice seeing the bright side as a way to improve self-awareness, manage stress, and build social emotional skills.

Use this chart to categorize your chosen superhero’s real and supernatural strengths.