6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | How Our Eyes Work | Students will learn about the structure of the eye and how it works. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Famous People with Visual Impairments | Students will learn about famous individuals with visual impairments and understand that a visual impairment is not a barrier to success. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Let’s Learn About Language Challenges | Students will learn about the similarities and differences between expressive and receptive language disorders. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Depression Is More Than Feeling Blue | Students will learn about the difference between feeling sad and depression and will explore ways to support themselves or classmates who have depression. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Learn About Your School’s Resources | Students will learn about their school’s learning disability resources by conducting short interviews with learning disability specialists. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | What is a Physical Disability? | Students will gain an understanding about several physical disabilities and their effects on individuals who have them. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Learning at Different Paces | Students will develop awareness about intellectual disabilities and think about ways they can show empathy to a peer who has cognitive delays. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | What Is Selective Mutism? | Students will gain an awareness and understanding of selective mutism. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Drawing to Make Conclusions | Students will develop awareness of intellectual disabilities and think about ways to show empathy toward peers who have cognitive differences. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Anxiety and the Brain-Body Connection | Students will be able to identify the connection between our brains and behaviors during an anxiety response |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Supporting Friends With Anxiety | Students will be able to identify strategies for supporting peers who have anxiety. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Down Syndrome Introduction | Students will understand what Down syndrome is and that people with Down syndrome are not so different from everyone else. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Stuttering Challenges | Students will gain awareness about stuttering as a speech impairment and how they can support peers who stutter. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Autism: Experiencing the World Differently | Students will understand that individuals may react differently even in similar situations. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Don’t Speak Aloud! | Students learn about lip reading and how difficult it is to use with English language word structures. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Visual Perspective-Taking | Students will learn about visual perspective to begin making connections to conceptual perspective. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Talk To Me | Students will learn that people with disabilities want to be spoken to and interacted with directly to have regular conversations. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Introduction to Person-First Language | Students how to communicate respectfully by putting an individual before his or her disability. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Adaptive and Inclusive Sports | Students will research and participate in inclusive and adaptive sports programs. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Success with ADHD | Students will learn that there are many people diagnosed with ADHD who experience success. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Americans with Disabilities Act | Students will learn how to define a physical disability and understand how the ADA law provides accessibility for individuals with disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Researching Language Disabilities | Students will research and report about language disabilities and ways to support people who have them. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Signing Our Names | Students will learn that sign language is used by some people to communicate and will learn how to fingerspell their names in ASL. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | ADHD Superpower | Students will learn that people with ADHD have strengths because of the way their brains works. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Don’t Act Out – Act It Out! | Students will learn about and practice self-regulation skills. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | AAC Devices Introduction | Students will learn what AAC devices are and how people use them. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | ADA Scavenger Hunt | Students will assess how their school is accessible to people with physical disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Are You Game? | Students will learn about the challenges someone with a physical disability might face and how they can use empathy to support individuals with physical disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Understanding Dyscalculia | Students will learn what dyscalculia is and how it makes learning math more difficult. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Objectifying People with Disabilities | Students will learn about why it is essential to not objectify individuals with disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Day in Pictures | Students will learn about how some autistic people think in pictures instead of words. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Designing for Inclusion | Students will design a space that is inclusive for individuals with physical disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyslexia in the World | Students will gain awareness of the challenges that a person with dyslexia faces when trying to do everyday tasks. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Good Communication Techniques | Students will understand the value of good communication skills no matter who you are communicating with. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Famous People with Learning Disabilities | Students will learn about famous individuals with learning disabilities and see that learning disabilities are not barriers to success. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | ADHD KWL | Students will learn that ADHD is a learning difference. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Figuring Out Stress | Students will learn to differentiate between good and bad stress and increase awareness around stress management. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Welcoming Letters | Students will create welcoming letters for students and families. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | OCD Is More Than Being Tidy | Students will be able to discuss what it means to have obsessive compulsive disorder and the difference between having OCD and being a person who is neat and orderly. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Living With a Hearing Loss | Students will build awareness about hearing loss/deafness and develop empathy toward classmates with hearing loss/deafness. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | But What Can I Do? | Students will learn signs of depression and the supports available to help themselves or others. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Braille Around the School | Students will make their school more accessible to people who have visual impairments. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Conductive Hearing Loss Simulation | Students will gain a new understanding of what it is like to live with conductive hearing loss. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | How the Brain Works | Students will learn that different parts of the brain are responsible for different types of learning and will reflect on their own strengths and weakness as learners. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Stuttering Stories | Students will write letters or stories about stuttering and how to be supportive. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Nervous System | Students will understand the basic structure and functions of the human nervous system and why a physical disability may occur. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Using a KWL Chart | Students will identify what they already know and what they want to learn about disability. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Emotions Portraits | Students will create self-portraits to connect colors to feelings and identify a strategy that helps them self-regulate. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | What Is Empathy? | Students will learn what empathy is and begin to understand its role in building positive relationships. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Understanding Childhood Apraxia of Speech | Students will learn what childhood apraxia is and what it means for those who have it. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Attention | Students will experience the implications of frequent distractions associated with ADD/ADHD |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | What Are Speech Impairments? | Students will understand five types of speech disorders. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyscalculia in the World | Students will gain awareness of the challenges that a person with dyscalculia faces when trying to do everyday tasks. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Advocacy Letters | Students will learn about the concept of advocacy and will write letters to members of Congress to ask them to join the Congressional Task Force on Down Syndrome. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | What’s Missing? | Students will gain awareness and empathy for people who have cognitive delays. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | 4D Movies | Students will create physical representations to add to the experience of two-dimensional media. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyslexia Introduction | Students will learn that dyslexia is a learning difference that makes it harder for people to read. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Exploring Cognitive Delays | Students will build awareness about cognitive delays and learn about how they can extend empathy to peers with cognitive delays. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Famous Autistic People | Students will learn about how autistic individuals can do exceptional things and about famous autistic people. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Common Visual Impairments | Students will learn about several types of visual impairments. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Social Connections Scavenger Hunt | Students will learn about how social interactions may be challenging for some autistic people and engage in a social skill-building activity. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Chain of Friendship | Students will reflect on how we all learn from others and how we can all share our knowledge with others. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Navigating Speech Impairments | Students will envision the world as a person with speech impairments. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Designing for ADHD | Students will explore how schools can be more inclusive to all students. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | What’s the Meaning of This? | Students will practice using common prefixes, roots, and suffixes to define visual impairment terms. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Welcome Neighbors | Students will understand the difference between welcoming behaviors and unwelcoming behaviors and reflect on the value of inclusion. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Sound Effects | Students will learn how sound effects are created. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | What Are You Saying? | Students will learn about how our behaviors are part of how we communicate our needs and wants to others. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Keep Dreaming: Living With a Physical Disability | Students will learn about physical disabilities and how they can show empathy toward classmates with physical disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | A Physical Disability Doesn’t Mean You Can’t . . . | Students will gain awareness about physical disabilities and think about ways to have empathy for classmates with physical disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Autism Introduction | Students will learn about how autistic people may react differently to sensory experiences in their environments. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Invisible vs Visible Differences | Students will identify invisible and visible differences. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Letter to Yourself | Students will reflect on their current biases, stereotypes, and perspectives about people with disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | How We Hear | Students will understand how we hear and the two different types of hearing loss. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | See with Senses and Assistance | Students will build awareness about and empathy toward people with visual impairments. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Managing Emotions | Students will learn and practice self-regulation techniques. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Dyspraxia and Memory | Students will gain an understanding of how dyspraxia can affect memory. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Awareness and Respect | Students will learn the expectations for future class discussions. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Dyspraxia and Motor Difficulties | Students will gain a deeper understanding of motor difficulties associated with dyspraxia. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Let’s Learn About Down Syndrome | Students will learn about Down syndrome and the fact that people with Down syndrome have hopes, dreams and lives similar to students’ own hopes, dreams, and lives. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Disability Brainstorm Web | Students will share what they know about disabilities. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Cognitive and Processing Disorders | Students will gain an awareness and understanding about cognitive and processing disorders and how they affect communication. |
6-8 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Sharing Experiences with Autistic Individuals | Students will learn some of autism’s common traits and how these traits may influence their interactions with an autistic individual. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Advocating as a Learner | Students will explore how to self-advocate as a learner. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Problem, Solution, Reflection | Students will be able to generate a solution to a given problem and reflect on the outcomes. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Decisions for Me and You | Students reflect on how decision-making can affect individuals and communities. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Spheres of Impact | Students will learn how their actions impact themselves, friends, classmates, and the school. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | I Am/I Do | Students reflect on who they are, what they can do, and their future capabilities. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | PSA for RDM | Students will be able to articulate the importance of responsible decision-making and create a persuasive message to promote it. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | I Notice, I Wonder, I Would | Students will explore how observation and curiosity support decision-making and action. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | SMART Goal-Setting | Students will be able to edit a goal to be a “SMART” goal. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Be an Upstander | Students compare and contrast what it means to be a bystander and an upstander. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Relationship Names Bingo | Students will be able to identify their roles in family, community, and the world by thinking about common relational names. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Which Type of Agency? | Students will learn that personal and collective agency are involved in many life situations. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Making Friends Bingo | Students will learn a strategy for learning about others as a way to make friends and develop healthy relationships. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Social Media Challenges Decision Trees | Students will learn how to evaluate social media challenges using decision trees. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Six Steps to Standing Up | Students will learn a strategy to help them stand up for themselves and for others. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Honesty and Integrity Comic Strips | Students will explore the connection between honesty and integrity. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Sensory Soothers | Students explore sensory experiences that are calming for them. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Leadership Course | Students will learn about leadership skills they have and would like to develop. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Courageous Conclusions | Students will be able to identify solutions to a problem. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore relationship skills through discussion prompts. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Management Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Understanding Norms | Students will be able to identify norms for various situations. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Making Faces | Students will be able to demonstrate feeling a given emotion with their facial expressions. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Gratitude Bingo | Students will learn about the many ways gratitude plays a role in their lives. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Having an Open Mind | Students explore what is means to be open-minded. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Positive Communication Concentration | Students reflect on the most effective and positive ways to communicate with others. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Cues Charades | Students will be able to identify and explain at least two aspects of social cues. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Cultural Competence in Action | Students will learn what cultural competence is and how it helps us build relationships with people from different backgrounds and experiences. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Identifying Bias | Students will learn how opinions and biases are related. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Organization 101 | Students will be able to elaborate on the importance of being organized in relation to one’s emotional well-being. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Focus, Engage, Persevere | Students will be able to sort strategies into the categories of focus, engagement, and perseverance. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Expectations 4-Square | Students will explore situational expectations that are common and unique to a variety of places. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Small Goals, Big Goal | Students will develop an understanding of how setting and achieving small goals are part of the process for achieving big goals. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Making Sincere Apologies | Students will learn how to construct a meaningful apology. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | The Importance of Dependability | Students will be able to explain what it means to be dependable. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Ripple Effects of Decisions | Students will learn about how their decisions may affect others. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Team Building Blocks | Students will practice collaborating with others to accomplish a team goal. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Relationship Skills Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Strengths Dream Team | Students will learn what personal strengths are, both those they possess and may aspire to. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Conflict Charades | Students explore various strategies for resolving conflicts in respectful ways. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore social awareness through discussion prompts. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Self-Awareness Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Initiative and Courage | Students will learn that taking initiative requires various types of courage. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Empathy Role Play | Students will understand that we both give and receive empathy. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Awareness Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Offer or Seek Help? | Students will understand the importance of evaluating what type of help is needed in a situation. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Tell Me You’re Honest | Students will learn about the qualities that contribute to honesty. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Kindness in a Two-Way Street | Students will understand that relationships involve give and take. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Finding a Purpose Equations | Students will learn about how the interrelation between interests and talents/skills can help them identify purpose in their lives. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | I Can Make a Difference Pledge | Students will be able to identify a problem and understand how to make a pledge to help address it. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | How Big Is the Problem? | Students will be able to think critically about how to evaluate the size of a problem so they can gauge solutions. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | What Motivates Me? | Students will reflect on what motivation is and its role in their lives. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Empathetic Questions | Students will be able to formulate questions that communicate empathy. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Many Ways To Communicate | Students will learn about the role nonverbal communication strategies play in our interactions with others. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Processing Peer Pressure | Students will learn what peer pressure is and consider how it can be both negative and positive. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Finding Silver Linings | Students will learn about the value of positive thinking. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | How Did I Grow Today? | Students will reflect on the many opportunities they have to learn every day. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore self-management through discussion prompts. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Personal Strengths Inventory | Students will be able to identify some of their personal strengths. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Mood Meter | Students explore positive and negative emotions and the energy it takes to manage them. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Gratitude Scoops | Students will understand that gratitude is both a feeling and an action. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Relationship Skills Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | What’s Inside? | Students will explore invisible differences and how they can influence our interactions with each other. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore self-awareness through discussion prompts. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Self-Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Management Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Empathy Collage | Students will be able to identify and discuss others’ feelings. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Social Dilemma Decision-Making | Students will be able to practice making decisions that have positive outcomes. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Two Perspectives | Students will learn about identifying multiple perspectives in a situation. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Emotions Equations | Students will explore how are emotions are linked to our needs and actions. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Stress Management Match-Up | Students will be able to match triggers with appropriate coping strategies. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Team Task Team-Building | Students will be able to listen and communicate clearly in order to work collaboratively with others. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Butterfly Effect | Students will learn how simple acts may lead to a variety of outcomes. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore responsible decision-making through discussion prompts. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Wheel of Emotions | Students will explore the nuances of a range of emotions. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | What Is a Growth Mindset? | Students will be able to define what a growth mindset is and learn a strategy for nurturing it. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Strengths in Others | Students will learn that everyone has individual strengths and reflect on strengths they admire in others. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Practicing Self-Control | Students will be able to identify some of the skills necessary for demonstrating self-control in the context of social situations. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | What Can I Control? | Students will consider what they can and cannot control in their lives as a means of understanding how to manage their emotions. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Expectations by Environment | Students compare how behavioral expectations vary by environment. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Dilemma Drama | Students consider how to weigh pros and cons when making decisions. |
3-5 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Critical Thinking in Motion | Students will practice critical thinking skills. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Empathy Collage | Students will explore the strategies we use to identify others’ emotions. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore responsible decision-making through discussion prompts. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Frozen Figures | Students will practice self-management by practicing self-control. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Teamwork Traits | Students will learn about the qualities of being a good team member. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Changing Your Mind | Students will explore how changing your mind can be a sign of learning and growth. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Symbols of Culture | Students will learn what symbols are and how they represent different aspects of a range of cultures. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Critical Thinking Weather Dice Activity | Students will learn how to use critical thinking skills to make responsible decisions. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Integrity: Matching Words and Actions | Students will learn what integrity is and why it is important that our words and actions match up. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Strengths in Me | Students will be able to recognize some of their strengths and challenges. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Who Is a Trusted Adult? | Students will understand the meaning of the phrase “trusted adult” and be able to identify a trusted adults in their lives. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Courage Superhero Poses | Students will learn that courage is a universal “superpower” they can use to face their challenges. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Let’s Get Curious | Students will learn that there are many ways to demonstrate and satisfy curiosity. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Four Steps for Apologizing | Students will learn the basic steps for making an apology. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Emotion/Energy/Decision-Making | Students will develop an understanding of how our emotions affect our ability to make responsible decisions. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Diversity Garden | Students will learn about the value of diversity by thinking about their classmates’ strengths and skills. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Emotions Museum | Students will understand that emotions can affect our bodies as well as our thoughts. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Handling Social Pressure | Students will learn what social pressure is and practice strategies to resist negative social pressure. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Goal-Setting Steps | Students will be able to list three steps for reaching a goal. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore relationship skills through discussion prompts. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Day at the Beach | Students will explore how critical thinking supports responsible decision-making. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore self-awareness through discussion prompts. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Emotion Zones | Students will enhance their understanding of the different feelings they experience or see others experience. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Many Ways To Communicate | Students will learn about and practice different forms of communication. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Making Choices Every Day | Students will practice making decisions that have positive outcomes. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | We Are All Leaders | Students will learn that we all have the ability to be leaders. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | The Importance of Dependability | Students will be able to explain what it means to be dependable. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore self-management through discussion prompts. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Problem Solvers | Students will be able to match a solution to a problem. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Acrostic Names | Students will recognize their strengths. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Management Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Cultivating a Growth Mindset | Students will explore how to transform “fixed mindset” statements into “growth mindset” statements. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Cues Charades | Students will be able to identify and explain at least two aspects of social cues. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Stress Management Match-Up | Students will be able to identify appropriate coping strategies to use when they feel big emotions. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Expectations in Our Community | Students will explore and understand the varying expectations in different settings within their community. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | A Vision of Me | Students will be able to recognize and demonstrate aspects of their personality through a visual representation. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Gratitude Heart Cards | Students will learn about the value of showing gratitude to others. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Awareness Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Making Friends Bingo | Students will learn a strategy for learning about others as a way to make friends and develop healthy relationships. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Organization 101 | Students will be able to recognize the value and benefits of being organized. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | I Am Many Things | Students will learn about the varied roles they have in different settings or areas of their lives. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Making Responsible Choices | Students will explore what decision-making means and looks like. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Self-Awareness Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Followed by the Leader | Students will learn why clear communication is essential to leadership. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Relationship Skills Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Truth Towers | Students will learn about the benefits of telling the truth. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Relationship Skills Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | I Spy a Strength | Students will learn to recognize others’ strengths. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | ABCs of Being an Upstander | Students will learn what it means to be an upstander and some strategies for helping others. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | What’s Your Stress-Management Strategy? | Students will learn a variety of stress-management strategies to help them in everyday situations. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Color and Share: Social Awareness | Students will explore what social awareness means to them. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Empathetic Body Language | Students will be able to identify what body language communicates empathy. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Advocacy Contracts | Students will learn what self-advocacy is and strategies for asking for support. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Agency Salad Bar | Students learn what self-agency is and tools to help them make personal choices. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Kind Word Hearts | Students will be able to recognize the power that words can have on others and themselves. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Color and Share: Self-Management | Students will explore what self-management means to them. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Color and Share: Relationship Skills | Students will explore what relationship skills are and mean to them. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | How Systems Influence Our Behaviors | Students will learn about how systems may shape our behaviors. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Wheel of Emotions | Students will be able to describe when they feel an assortment of emotions. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Gallery of Emotions | Students will be able to identify a feeling that matches a facial expression. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Focus, Engage, Persevere | Students will learn about self-management strategies that can help them focus, engage, and persevere. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Sensory Empathy | Students will understand how empathy helps us maintain positive relationships. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Self-Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Gratitude Gifts | Students will learn that we can show gratitude through our actions. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Relationship Names Bingo | Students will be able to identify their roles in family, community, and the world by exploring common relational names. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | I Am Curious | Students will learn about how curiosity supports decision-making. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Turning Thoughts Around | Students will learn that revising a negative thought can produce a positive feeling. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | How Can I Help? | Students will learn about why it is important to help others. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Believing In Yourself | Students will learn about how they can cultivate self-belief, a key component of the self-efficacy skill set. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Color and Share: Responsible Decision-Making | Students will explore what responsible decision-making means to them. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Courage To Try | Students will learn about the role courage plays in learning and growing. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Management Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Are They Just Social Norms? | Students will learn what social norms are and that they may change over time to become more just (fair). |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Message for Our School | Students will reflect about responsible decision-making and create posters to promote its importance in their school community. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Morning Meeting Conversation Starters | Students will explore social awareness through discussion prompts. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Two Perspectives | Students will be able to identify the perspective of each character in a skit. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | How Big Is the Problem? | Students will explore how to evaluate the size of a problem so they can gauge solutions. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | What Are Norms? | Students will understand what norms are and be able to identify norms in various situations. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Color and Share: Self-Awareness | Students will explore what self-awareness means to them. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Raccoon Detective | Students will enhance self-management skills by practicing self- control. |
K-2 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | aMAZEing Planning | Students will learn about the importance of making a plan that they or others can follow to accomplish a task. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Circle of Impact | Students will recognize the impact of their decisions on those around them. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Peer Pressure Pivot | Students will learn about what motivates peers to engage in negative peer pressure and how to resist that pressure. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Gratitude Cards | Students will practice expressing gratitude toward others by recognizing their peers’ contributions to the classroom community. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Know Your Norms | Students will explore why norms are important for helping us navigate different situations and environments. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Motivate Me | Students will reflect about what motivates them personally. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Relationship Skills Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | How Am I Feeling? | Students will learn how to identify the source of their emotions in order to plan how to manage or promote what they are feeling. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Stereotype or Bias? | Students learn to define and differentiate between “stereotype” and “bias.” |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Self-Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Let’s Get Ethical | Students will explore the role of ethics in decision-making. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Relationship Skills Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Four Best Qualities | Students will reflect on the qualities that support positive relationships. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Through Another’s Eyes | Students will learn how to define empathy. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | My Future Self(ie) | Students will learn about future visioning as a valuable tool for setting and working toward personal goals. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | When, How, and Why To Be an Upstander | Students will learn how to assess situations when someone’s rights are being infringed upon, along with how and why to take a stand. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Having a Sense of Purpose | Students will explore what it means to have a sense of purpose. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Planning Ahead for Success | Students will practice planning ahead to meet their daily commitments successfully. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Exploring Self-Advocacy | Students will understand what it means to advocate for themselves, why it is important, and how to ask for support. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Learning To Fly | Students will learn about taking responsibility for their learning and that not everyone has the same resources and advantages. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset | Students will explore mindsets and identify growth mindset strategies they can use when facing challenges. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Seize the Moment | Students will learn how to recognize situational demands in challenging situations so they take positive action. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Taps of Acknowledgment | Students will identify strengths in others as a means of building individual confidence and a sense of classroom community. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Exploring Leadership Techniques | Students will understand different leadership techniques and how they apply to different situations. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Regulation Strategies | Students will learn about strategies for self-regulation and impulse control. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | What Makes a Team Work? | Students will explore the qualities that make a team effective. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Tough Conversations | Students will explore strategies for how to engage in tough conversations with their friends. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Whose Story Is It? | Students will learn how to have empathy and compassion by looking at events from multiple perspectives. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Road Mapping Your Purpose | Students will learn what it means to have a sense of purpose and the importance of planning to achieve their goals. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Where I'm From Poems | Students will learn to use writing as a way to reflect about themselves authentically. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Responding with Curiosity | Students will understand the importance of curiosity in effective decision-making. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Bubbling Over With Respect | Students will explore what respect and sounds like in action. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | One Great Accomplishment | Students will reflect about an accomplishment that boosts their self- confidence. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Stepping Up To Goal Setting | Students will explore a concrete strategy for setting and achieving attainable goals. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Norms and Injustice | Students will learn about social norms and how some relate to unjust behaviors and actions toward others. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Conflict Resolution Tiles | Students will learn and practice strategies for appropriate responses to conflict. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Social Awareness Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Showcase Me | Students will explore their unique traits and qualities to reflect about who they are at this time in their lives. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Moral Compass | Students will understand the concept of morals and will reflect on how their morals influence important decisions they make. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like | Students will understand what respectful relationships look like, feel like, and sound like. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Decision Role Play | Students will explore the steps for safe, ethical decision-making. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | One Tough Decision | Students will reflect on a past choice they made to help them think about decision-making skills. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Proactive Calendars | Students will practice proactive planning and goal-setting skills for their academic and social commitments using a calendar process. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Try My Shoes | Students will explore the importance of having empathy. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Let’s Be Honest | Students will learn about the connections between honesty and integrity and the value of both. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Cultural Competency Self-Audit and Growth | Students will learn about cultural competency and create action plans for personal growth in this area. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Cultural Elements That Shape Us | Students will identify cultural elements that have helped to shape them and the people around them. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Mobilizing Gratitude | Students will expand their understanding of gratitude and its importance in our lives. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Evaluating the Options | Students will explore how to weigh options when making decisions. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Collective Agency Octopus Planner | Students will understand what collective agency is and how their individual choices and skills contribute to achieving group goals. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Managing Fight or Flight | Students will recognize how stress influences their decision-making and identify coping strategies to make more thoughtful decisions. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Bridge Between Idea and Action | Students will explore the difference between ideas and actions and learn what it takes to have initiative. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | You Power! | Students learn about how they can have positive impacts on the communities they are part of. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Communication in Many Forms | Students will explore the power of communication to be positive or negative. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Critical Thinking Breakdown | Students will understand that critical thinking is important inside and outside of the classroom. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Perspectives x 2 | Students will consider multiple perspectives in a situation. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Exploring Honesty and Integrity | Students will learn about the importance of honesty and integrity when faced with challenging situations. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Just One Person | Students will learn about the value of relationships by reflecting about a special relationship they have with one person. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | Active Listening Interviews | Students understand the role active listening plays in forming and managing positive relationships. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Self-Awareness Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Circles of Control | Students will learn a strategy for evaluating and managing feelings of anxiety that arise at times in their lives. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Zones of Comfort | Students will learn to identify their “zones of comfort” to support them in taking initiative. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | What’s Happening? | Students will learn a strategy for formulating effective questions using their curiosity. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Awareness | Self-Perception and Actions | Students will reflect on their sense of self and how this influences their actions. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Empathy Toolkit | Students will learn a strategy to help them understand others’ perspectives and demonstrate empathy. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Relationship-Skills | That’s Upstanding! | Students learn to analyze conflicts and stand up for others’ rights. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Taming Stress | Students will learn about the importance of stress management and consider strategies they can incorporate into their own lives. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Considering Social Norms | Students will learn how to identify social norms and consider their positive and negative impacts. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Management Check-Ins (English) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Social-Awareness | Understanding Terms: Bias, Prejudice, Discrimination | Students will be able to define and understand the words bias, prejudice, and discrimination. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Self-Management | Self-Management Check-Ins (Spanish) | A set of daily SEL check-ins |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | Assessing Media Using a Critical Lens | Students learn how to use critical thinking skills to evaluate news, entertainment, and social media. |
6-8 Social-Emotional Learning | SEL-Responsible-Decision-Making | THINK! About Critical Thinking | Students will learn a process for applying critical thinking skills effectively in their lives. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Disability Brainstorm Web | Students will share what they know about disabilities. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Defining Disability | Students will learn about what disability is. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Everyone Is Different | Students will understand that we are all different, even if we can’t see those differences, and explore why differences are cause for celebration. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Exploring Our Differences | Students will be able to talk about what makes people different and embrace something unique about themselves |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | I Like That, Too | Students will think about how, even though we are different from each other, underneath we usually have many things in common, which is a great place to start when making a new friend. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Teaching Empathy | Students will begin to learn what it means to “be in someone else’s shoes” and how trying to see another person’s perspective is part of empathy. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Using a KWL Chart | Students will identify what they already know and what they want to learn about disability. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | We Are Different, We Are the Same | Students will understand that, although everyone is different, each of us has something to offer. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Can You Read My Lips? | Students will explore what lip reading is and how it can be a challenging way to communicate with others. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Down Syndrome: Meet Isabelle | Students will explore common attributes between themselves and people with Down syndrome and learn about strategies for interacting with people with Down syndrome. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Understanding Traumatic Brain Injuries | Students will understand how important it is to protect their brains. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Guiding the Blind | Students will learn about various types of assistance for people with visual impairments. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Pho-No-Log-Ic | Students will learn that some people have difficulty understanding all the sounds in spoken language and they will try to understand what that might feel like. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Dysnomia, RAN, and Word Finding | Students will learn about dysnomia and about how some people have trouble finding the right words. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Voice Disorders | Students gain a greater awareness and understanding of voice disorders. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Charades | Students will learn that they can communicate with and without words |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | True Story of Two Brothers | Students will learn about one way that people with physical disabilities can participate in a sport. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Circles of Emotion | Students will gain a better understanding of autism by exploring emotions and learning that people may respond differently even to the same situations. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Supporting Our Classmates | Students will consider specific ways that they can support their classmates in learning. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Think About Learning Differences | Students will recognize that everyone learns things differently and everyone is capable of doing different things. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Feel the Rhythm | Students will explore rhythm and body movements as a way to experience music. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyscalculia in the World | Students will gain awareness of the challenges that a person with dyscalculia faces when trying to do everyday tasks. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | When Some Students Need Extra Help | Students will understand that people with cognitive disabilities sometimes need extra support and it is fair to give them what they need. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | What Do You Hear? | Students will learn about how our ears work to capture sounds all around us. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Amazing Autism | Students will apply their knowledge of autism to create posters that help spread awareness. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Everyday Superheroes | Students will learn that people with disabilities can do many or all of the things that other people can do, they may just do them in a different way. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Visual Perspective-Taking | Students will learn about visual perspective to begin making connections to conceptual perspective. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Autism Introduction | Students will be introduced to autism and understand that it is okay for people to be different. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Emoji Emotions | Students will draw emoji to connect feelings to statements regarding emotions. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | AAC Devices Introduction | Students will learn what AAC devices are and how people use them. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Understanding Concussions | Students will define what a concussion is, the symptoms of a concussion, and what to do if they think they have one. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Navigating Vision Loss | Students will envision the world as a person with vision and without. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Deaf Friends | Students will learn strategies to communicate and make friends with someone who is deaf or hard of hearing. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Communication Challenges Telephone Game | Students will learn the similarities and differences between expressive and receptive language disorders. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Signing Our Names | Students will learn that sign language is used by some people to communicate and will learn how to fingerspell their names in ASL. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Picture in Your Mind | Students will use detailed language to construct verbal “pictures.” |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Playground Accessibility Analysis | Students will evaluate the accessibility of a school or community playground space for various physical abilities. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Emotions Portraits | Students will create self-portraits to connect colors to feelings and identify a strategy that helps them self-regulate. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Marshmallows and Muscle Tone Simulation | Students will understand how low muscle tone can affect speech and comprehension for people with Down syndrome. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | OCD Is More Than Just a Worry | Students will learn what obsessive compulsive order is, how it is different from regular worrying, and some strategies for dealing with worry. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Hearing Aids | Students will understand that hearing aids help people who have a hearing loss to hear more clearly. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Cognitive Differences Survey | Students will evaluate and reflect on their own learning through a summative survey about cognitive differences. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Articulation Disorders | Students will gain a greater awareness and understanding about articulation disorders. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Story about Dyslexia | Students will learn about the challenges that people with dyslexia face by thinking about their own challenges and how they can develop skills to help manage them. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Mobility Challenges | Students will learn about mobility challenges and how, with assistance, people with this type of physical disability can do many of the same things we all do. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Sense of Sight Game | Students will use their sense of sight to name an object in a picture and then to find the object in the classroom. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Challenges with a Physical Disability | Students will learn about some of the challenges that come with having various physical disabilities. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Seeing Safe Spaces | Students will assess the safety and accessibility of various locations for a person with a visual impairment or blindness. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Fine Motor Skills Treasure Hunt | Students will learn about what fine motor skills are and practice using their own fine motor skills. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Let's Learn About Anxiety | Students will learn about what anxiety is, how it affects individuals differently, and how to rate their own worries on a numerical scale. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | How Assistive Technology Gives a Voice | Students will learn about speech/language disorders and the technology that can help people with speech/language disorders. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | What Is Stuttering? | Students will gain a greater awareness and understanding about fluency disorders. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Needing Glasses | Students will learn about why some people need glasses to help them see more clearly and how someone might feel about getting glasses. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Braille Exploration | Students will learn that braille is a tactile, written language that people who are blind or visually impaired can use to read. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Talk To Me | Students will learn that people with disabilities want to be spoken to and interacted with directly and want to have regular conversations. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Supporting Friends | Students will brainstorm ways to be a supportive friend. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Difficulty Drawing | Students will experience how some people with cognitive differences have difficulty understanding what others say or mean. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Wordless Picture Book | Students will understand how nonverbal language connects to emotion words, and therefore the characters’ different feelings, plausible thoughts, and actions. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyslexia Introduction | Students will learn that dyslexia is a learning difference that makes it harder for people to learn letters and to read. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Navigating Hearing Loss | Students will envision the world as a person with hearing and without. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Expanded Thoughts | Students will learn about language delays and how to expand ideas when they are communicating so they can be understood better. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | How Can I Say | Students will experience what it is like to have an immobilized tongue that impacts their speech and will come up with strategies to help someone with this disability. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Making Friends | Students will identify strategies for making friends. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | How We Feel Circles | Students will identify their own feelings that they have brought to the circle and value the feelings of others in their circle. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | A Loss For Words | Students will experience what it is like to have to communicate without using their voices. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | My Colorful Emotions | Students will learn that we all have emotions and that we can associate our feelings with colors as way to help make sense of them. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | We All Fit Together | Students will learn about some of the different ways autistic peers may communicate and identify strategies for including all peers. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Nervous System | Students will understand the job of the central nervous system and why a physical disability may occur. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Learn a New Way | Students will practice several ways to accomplish the same task. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Traumatic Brain Injury Egg Simulation | Students will learn some basic facts about the brain, how it functions, and how it heals after an injury. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | We All Move Differently | Students will learn about how everyone’s body works differently and some people need assistance to get around. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | We All Learn at Different Rates | Students will understand that everyone develops at different rates and we all have opportunities to continue learning new things. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Learn About Your School's Resources | Students will learn about their school’s learning disability resources by conducting short interviews with learning disability specialists. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Break It Down | Students will learn that not everyone is able to understand spoken instructions at the same speed or with the same accuracy. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | How the Brain Works | Students will understand that different parts of the brain are responsible for different types of learning. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | When It's Hard To Be Understood or To Understand | Students will understand the difficulties of having a speech impairment. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Hearing Helpers | Students will explore assistive technologies for hearing loss. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Sense of Sight | Students will understand what we use our eyes for and will be able to use their sense of sight to notice objects and details around them. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Duck’s Disability | Students will learn about physical disabilities and how they can affect any living creature. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | We All Learn Differently | Students will explore how we all learn things in our own way. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyslexia in the World | Students will gain awareness of the challenges that a person with dyslexia faces when trying to do everyday tasks. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Write the Room | Students will learn the written names of various objects around their classroom for quick recall when speaking or writing. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | To Help You Understand Autism | Students will learn about how someone with autism may experience sensory information and make connections to times they may have experienced similar feelings. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Assistive Technologies | Students will explore assistive technologies for physical impairments. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Vision Board Circles | Students will explore what makes them unique and why our diverse qualities and experiences are valuable. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | What Is Selective Mutism? | Students will gain an awareness and understanding of selective mutism. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Reading Facial Expressions | Students will learn about how facial expressions help us recognize how others are feeling. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | A Story Without A Letter | Students will create a story as a class, but then reread the story omitting any words with the letter “N” to simulate a speech disability. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Body Language Clues | Students will learn that body language plays a significant role in how we interact with others, but that some people have difficulty reading body language, which makes it hard for them to make friends. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Understanding Dyslexia | Students will learn what dyscalculia is and about the challenges that people with dyscalculia face when it comes to numbers. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Smell and Taste Test | Students will experience a sensory comparison. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | See with Senses | Students will build awareness about and empathy toward people with visual impairments. |
K-2 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Down Syndrome Introduction | Students will understand what Down syndrome is and that people with Down syndrome are not so different from everyone else. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Amazing Autism | Students will use their knowledge about autism to help spread awareness and promote acceptance. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Protecting Our Hearing | Students will promote ear protection and damage prevention. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Transforming Technologies | Students will design a costume that artfully incorporates assistive technologies for individuals with physical disabilities |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Let's Learn About Language Challenges | Students will learn about the similarities and differences between expressive and receptive language disorders. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | How We Hear | Students will understand how we hear. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Social Circles | By creating a diagram of their own social network, students will gain understanding about why community connections are important. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Drawing to Make Conclusions | Students will develop awareness of intellectual disabilities and think about ways to show empathy toward peers who have cognitive differences. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Supporting Our Classmates | Students will consider specific ways that they can support their classmates in learning. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Brain and Body Connection KWL | Students will learn that our brains and bodies work together and explore what that means for individuals with ADHD. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Just Like Any Other Girl | Students will explore common attributes between themselves and people with Down syndrome and learn about strategies for interacting with people with Down syndrome. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | We All Learn Differently | Students will explore how we all learn things in our own way. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Good Communication Techniques | Students will understand the value of good communication skills no matter who you are communicating with. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | What's Missing? | Students will gain awareness and empathy for people who have cognitive delays. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Autism: Experiencing the World Differently | Students will understand that individuals may react differently even in similar situations. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | ADA Scavenger Hunt | Students will assess how their school is accessible to people with physical disabilities. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Famous Autistic People | Students will learn about how autistic individuals can do exceptional things and about famous autistic people. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Braille Exploration | Students will learn that braille is a tactile, written language that people who are blind or visually impaired can use to read. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | How Assistive Technology Helps | Students will gain a greater awareness and understanding about fluency disorders and the technology that can help those who have fluency disorders. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Seeds of Positivity | Students will explore how unkind words and kind words affect people. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Famous People with Learning Disabilities | Students will learn about famous individuals with learning disabilities and see that learning disabilities are not barriers to success. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Introduction to Person-First Language | Students how to communicate respectfully by putting an individual before his or her disability. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Exploring Cognitive Delays | Students will build awareness about cognitive delays and learn about how they can extend empathy to peers with cognitive delays. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Social Connections Scavenger Hunt | Students will learn about how social interactions may be challenging for some autistic people and engage in a social skill-building activity. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Americans with Disabilities Act | Students will learn how to define a physical disability and understand how the ADA law provides accessibility for individuals with disabilities. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Depression Is More Than Feeling Blue | Students will learn about the difference between feeling sad and having depression, and will explore ways to support themselves or classmates who have depression. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Be a Physical Disability Awareness Star | Students will learn about physical disabilities and how they can show empathy toward classmates with physical disabilities. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Match the Room | Students will learn the written names of various objects around their classroom for quick recall when speaking or writing. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Designing for Vision | Students will assess the safety and accessibility of various locations in the school for a person with a visual impairment or blindness. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Visual Perspective-Taking | Students will learn about visual perspective to begin making connections to conceptual perspective. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Physical Disability Doesn't Mean You Can't | Students will gain awareness about physical disabilities and think about ways to have empathy for classmates who have physical disabilities. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Break It Down | Students will learn to give step by step directions using the aid of written, drawn, and spoken words. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Basketball Hero | Students will use empathy and reflection to understand that people with physical disabilities want to be treated like everyone else. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyscalculia in the World | Students will gain awareness of the challenges that a person with dyscalculia faces when trying to do everyday tasks. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Autism Introduction | Students will learn about how autistic people may react differently to sensory experiences in their environments. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Disability Brainstorm Web | Students will share what they know about disabilities. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | AAC Devices Introduction | Students will learn what AAC devices are and how people use them. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | Invisible vs Visible Differences | Students will identify invisible and visible differences. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Talk To Me | Students will learn that people with disabilities want to be spoken to and interacted with directly and want to have regular conversations. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | How Our Eyes Work | Students will learn about the structure of the eye and how the eye works. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Cognitive and Processing Disorders | Students will gain an awareness and understanding about cognitive and processing disorders and how they affect communication. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | AAC: Communicating with Images | Students will explore how to communicate using images as someone with a hearing loss might do using an AAC. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Anatomy of the Ear | Students will identify the parts of the ear. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | What is a Physical Disability? | Students will gain an understanding about several physical disabilities and their effects on individuals who have them. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | What Is Empathy? | Students will learn what empathy is and begin to understand its role in building positive relationships. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Navigating Speech Impairments | Students will envision the world as a person with a speech impairment. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Welcome Neighbors | Students will understand the difference between welcoming behaviors and unwelcoming behaviors and reflect on the value of inclusion. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyslexia Introduction | Students will learn that dyslexia is a learning difference that makes it harder for people to learn letters and to read. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Vision Board Circles | Students will explore what makes them unique and why our diverse qualities and experiences are valuable. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Common Visual Impairments | Students will learn about some of the common types of visual impairments. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Don't Speak Aloud | Students learn about lip reading and how difficult it is to use with English language word structures. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Voice Disorders | Students gain a greater awareness and understanding of voice disorders. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Braille Around the School | Students will make their school more accessible to people who have visual impairments. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Guiding the Blind | Students will learn about various types of assistance for people with visual impairments. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Understanding Dyscalculia | Students will learn what dyscalculia is and how it makes learning math more difficult. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Supporting Friends with Anxiety | Students will be able to identify strategies for supporting peers who have anxiety. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Understanding Concussions | Students will define what a concussion is, the symptoms of a concussion, and what to do if they think they have one. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Are You Game? | Students will learn about the challenges someone with a physical disability might face and how others (including the students themselves) can use empathy to support individuals with physical disabilities. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | What’s the Meaning of This? | Students will practice using common prefixes, roots, and suffixes to define visual impairment terms. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | What Is Selective Mutism? | Students will gain an awareness and understanding of selective mutism. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Learn About Your School's Resources | Students will learn about their school’s learning disability resources by conducting short interviews with learning disability specialists. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Fact or Myth? Talking About Learning Disabilities? | Students will apply their learning about learning disabilities to sort myths from facts. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | How the Brain Works | Students will learn that different parts of the brain are responsible for different types of learning and will reflect on their own strengths and weakness as learners. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Living With Anxiety | Students will learn how anxiety can affect all facets of someone’s life. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Emotions Portraits | Students will create self-portraits to connect colors to feelings and identify a strategy that helps them self-regulate. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Difficulty Drawing | Students will experience how some people with cognitive differences have difficulty understanding what others say or mean. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Understanding Childhood Apraxia of Speech | Students will learn what childhood apraxia is and what it means for those who have it. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Recognizing Triggers | Students will identify their own triggers and coping strategies. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Signing Our Names | Students will learn that sign language is used by some people to communicate and will learn how to fingerspell their names in ASL. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Conductive Hearing Loss Simulation | Students will gain a new understanding of what it is like to live with conductive hearing loss. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | When It's Hard To Be Understood or To Understand | Students will understand the difficulties of having a speech impairment. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Introductory | Using a KWL Chart | Students will identify what they already know and what they want to learn about disability. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Cognitive Differences Survey | Students will evaluate and reflect on their own learning through a summative survey about cognitive differences. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Famous People with Visual Impairments | Students will learn about famous individuals with visual impairments and understand that a visual impairment is not a barrier to success. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Learning at Different Paces | Students will develop awareness about cognitive differences and think about ways they can show empathy to a peer who has cognitive delays. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Stuttering Challenges | Students will gain awareness about stuttering as a speech impairment and learn how they can support peers who stutter. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | Anxiety and the Brain-Body Connection | Students will be able to identify the connection between our brains and behaviors during an anxiety response |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Visual-Impairments | Help Me See | Students will explore assistive technologies for visual impairments. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Dyslexia in the World | Students will gain awareness of the challenges that a person with dyslexia faces when trying to do everyday tasks. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Advocacy Letters | Students will learn about the concept of advocacy and will write letters to members of Congress to ask them to join the Congressional Task Force on Down Syndrome. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Autism-Spectrum | We All Fit Together Friendship Quilt | Students will learn about some of the different ways autistic peers may communicate and identify strategies for including all peers. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Physical-Disabilities | Nervous System | Students will understand the basic structure and functions of the human nervous system and why a physical disability may occur. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Learning-Disabilities | Jumbled | Students will learn about dyslexia and try two simulation activities. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Social-Emotional-Impairments | What Are You Saying? | Students will learn about how our behaviors are part of how we communicate our needs and wants to others. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Articulation Disorders | Students will gain a greater awareness and understanding about articulation disorders. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Hearing-Loss-Deafness | Types of Hearing Loss | Students will learn about the two different types of hearing loss. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Speech-Language-Disabilities | Causes and Effects of Speech Impediments | Students will consider cause and effect using the relationship between behaviors and feelings. |
3-5 Disability Awareness | DA-Cognitive-Differences | Down Syndrome Introduction | Students will understand what Down syndrome is and that people with Down syndrome are not so different from everyone else. |