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Social-Emotional Learning and Disability Awareness Lessons

Here are lists of our Social-Emotional Learning and Disability Awareness lessons. There is a tab for each and each list includes all grades. You can sort by using the drop downs at the top of grade and competency/disability and by using the search box at the upper right.

Grade	Competency	Lesson Title	Description
PreK	Self-Management	Finding Your Calm	Students will learn about strategies they can use to help them “find their calm” when they have big feelings.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	What Kind of Words?	Students will begin to understand kind and unkind words affect others.
PreK	Social-Awareness	A Sick Day for Amos McGee	Philip C. Stead & Erin E. Stead
PreK	Social-Awareness	Empathy Shoes	Students will learn about empathy by imagining what it might be like to be in someone else’s situation.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	What Am I Going To Do?	Students will develop their decision-making skills by learning how to make predictions based on critical thinking and observations.
PreK	Social-Awareness	Same, Same But Different	Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
PreK	Self-Awareness	Emotion Charades	Students will be able to identify their own and others’ emotions.
PreK	Social-Awareness	Lending a Helpful Hand	Students learn about ways they can help others and build empathy.
PreK	Social-Awareness	The Invisible Boy	Trudy Ludwig & Patrice Barton
PreK	Self-Management	I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness	Susan Verde & Peter H. Reynolds
PreK	Self-Awareness	Giraffes Can’t Dance	Giles Andreae & Guy Parker-Rees
PreK	Self-Awareness	Put Your Body Back Together	Students will learn body awareness while practicing listening skills and following directions.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Making Friends in Different Places	Students will learn that we can make friends in different places.
PreK	Self-Awareness	When We Have Feelings	Students will learn to identify emotions and explore how they can express them.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	The Kindness Book	Todd Parr
PreK	Self-Management	The Many Dimensions of Emotions	Students will learn that our emotions affect us in many ways.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Tall Towers	Students will learn how to work as a team in small groups with a common goal.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Pass the Compliment	Students will learn about kindness, compliments, and gratitude.
PreK	Self-Awareness	We All Learn Differently	Students will learn that everyone learns in their own way at their own pace.
PreK	Social-Awareness	Gratitude in Bloom	Students will learn about gratitude by naming people or things they feel grateful for.
PreK	Social-Awareness	3 Steps of Empathy	Students will begin to learn about feeling and showing empathy.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Making Good Choices	Students will strengthen their decision-making skills by using observation and critical thinking to make choices.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	The Empty Pot	Demi
PreK	Self-Management	Bravery Tree	Students will use self-reflection to build self-confidence.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug	Jonathan Stutzman & Jay Fleck
PreK	Social-Awareness	Mirror, Mirror	Students will learn about the importance of recognizing kindness and other positive attributes in others.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Miss Rumphius	Barbara Cooney
PreK	Self-Management	Grumpy Monkey: Spring Fever	Suzanne Lang & Max Lang
PreK	Self-Awareness	I Like Myself	Karen Beaumont & David Catrow
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Adventure Forecast	Students will practice critical thinking skills.
PreK	Social-Awareness	Learning About Perspective	Students will begin to develop an understanding of what perspective is.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	The Most Magnificent Thing	Ashley Spires
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Listening To Make Choices	Students will practice listening skills to make choices.
PreK	Social-Awareness	Walk in My Shoes	Children will learn that we can change things about our appearances without changing who we are.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Caring Is Cool!	Students learn how to identify others’ emotions and respond with caring and kindness.
PreK	Self-Awareness	Emotion Dice	Students will learn how to connect their personal experiences and preferences with their emotions.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	What Could Happen?	Students will build decision-making skills by exploring the concepts of anticipation and consequences.
PreK	Self-Awareness	Truth Train	Students will gain awareness of the value of telling the truth.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	I Know Your Name	Students will learn their classmates’ names and practice using them to build positive relationships and classroom culture.
PreK	Self-Management	My Nose Helps Me Feel Calm	Students will learn that we can use our senses to help us manage our emotions and calm our bodies.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Rolling Out Choices	Students will gain confidence in their decision-making abilities by becoming aware of how many decisions they make every day.
PreK	Self-Management	Learning As We Go	Students will develop stress-management skills by connecting past experiences to future choices.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist	Linda Skeers & Marta Álvarez Miguéns
PreK	Relationship-Skills	The Pout-Pout Fish and the Bully-Bully Shark	Deborah Diesen & Dan Hanna
PreK	Self-Awareness	Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself	Students will learn about themselves and their classmates.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Musical Friends	Students will begin to learn about inclusion.
PreK	Self-Awareness	What Do We Have in Common?	Students will learn the value of finding common interests and different interests with peers.
PreK	Social-Awareness	Friendship Necklaces	Students will learn about the value of giving and receiving and of expressing gratitude in their classroom community.
PreK	Self-Management	What Comes Next?	Students begin developing skills for setting goals and making plans for how to reach them through a picture sequencing activity.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Community Puzzle	Students will learn that everyone “fits” together in their community.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Friendly Conversations	PreK Learning Intention Students will learn how to have friendly conversations to support relationship building.
PreK	Social-Awareness	It’s Okay To Be Different	Todd Parr
PreK	Self-Management	How Do Dinosaurs Say I’m Mad?	Jane Yolen & Mark Teague
PreK	Self-Management	Flower/Candle Breaths	Students will learn a breathing exercise to help them reset their bodies and minds.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Thinking About Choices	Students will develop skills that support responsible decision-making.
PreK	Social-Awareness	Practicing Perspective	Students will learn what perspective is and begin to understand that people can have different ways of experiencing the world.
PreK	Self-Awareness	I Am Kind Name Tags	Students will learn about kindness and identify ways that they are kind.
PreK	Self-Awareness	What If...	Samantha Berger & Mike Curato
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	I Notice, I’m Curious	Students will develop their observation and curiosity skills.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	All Are Welcome	Alexandra Penfold & Suzanne Kaufman
PreK	Social-Awareness	Feeling Friends	Students will be able to identify their own and others’ emotions to help them develop awareness and empathy skills.
PreK	Self-Awareness	Celebrating Our Similarities and Differences	Students will understand that we are all different from and similar to one another in some ways and that this is a positive thing.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	Self-Care Charades	Students will learn about why taking care of themselves is a healthy choice.
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	What Could You Do?	Students will practice decision-making skills by identifying solutions for personal and social problems.
PreK	Relationship-Skills	Musical Mural	Students will understand that they are part of a classroom community where everyone’s contributions are important.
PreK	Self-Management	Step To It!	Students develop skills around goal-setting and planning by breaking tasks into steps.
PreK	Self-Management	Turn It Up, Turn It Down	Students will build self-control skills through a fun, physical stop- start activity.
PreK	Self-Awareness	I Am Human: A Book of Empathy	Susan Verde & Peter H. Reynolds
PreK	Responsible-Decision-Making	What Should I Wear?	Students will develop their decision-making skills by using critical thinking to make choices for various situations.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Empathy Collage	Students will explore the strategies we use to identify others’ emotions.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	This Is How We Roll	Students will learn flexible thinking and decision-making skills.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore responsible decision-making through discussion prompts.
K-2	Self-Management	Frozen Figures	Students will practice self-management by practicing self-control.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Pause or Proceed?	Students will learn to identify situations that require a pause before making a decision and taking action.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Teamwork Traits	Students will learn about the qualities of being a good team member.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Changing Your Mind	Students will explore how changing your mind can be a sign of learning and growth.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Symbols of Culture	Students will learn what symbols are and how they represent different aspects of a range of cultures.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Critical Thinking Weather Dice Activity	Students will learn how to use critical thinking skills to make responsible decisions.
K-2	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	Self-Awareness	Strengths in Me	Students will be able to recognize some of their strengths and challenges.
K-2	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-Awareness	Social Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	Self-Management	Courage Superhero Poses	Students will learn that courage is a universal “superpower” they can use to face their challenges.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Let’s Get Curious	Students will learn that there are many ways to demonstrate and satisfy curiosity.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Leader in the Middle	Students will learn about leadership qualities.
K-2	Self-Awareness	I Know I Can Do It!	Students will learn about the power of self-efficacy.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Four Steps for Apologizing	Students will learn the basic steps for making an apology.
K-2	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-Awareness	Diversity Garden	Students will learn about the value of diversity by thinking about their classmates’ strengths and skills.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Emotions Museum	Students will understand that emotions can affect our bodies as well as our thoughts.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Handling Social Pressure	Students will learn what social pressure is and practice strategies to resist negative social pressure.
K-2	Self-Management	Goal-Setting Steps	Students will be able to list three steps for reaching a goal.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	Self-Management	Practicing Self-Control	Students will be able to identify some of the skills necessary for demonstrating self-control.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore relationship skills through discussion prompts.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Day at the Beach	Students will explore how critical thinking supports responsible decision-making.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore self-awareness through discussion prompts.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Joy Jars	Students will reflect on how their interests, values, and strengths make them unique.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Emotion Zones	Students will enhance their understanding of the different feelings they experience or see others experience.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Many Ways To Communicate	Students will learn about and practice different forms of communication.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Making Choices Every Day	Students will practice making decisions that have positive outcomes.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	We Are All Leaders	Students will learn that we all have the ability to be leaders.
K-2	Self-Management	Collective Agency Cups	Students will learn about the importance of collective agency through teamwork and collaboration.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	The Importance of Dependability	Students will be able to explain what it means to be dependable.
K-2	Self-Management	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore self-management through discussion prompts.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Problem Solvers	Students will be able to match a solution to a problem.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Acrostic Names	Students will recognize their strengths.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	What Makes Someone a Good Friend?	Students will learn about the characteristics of a good friend.
K-2	Self-Management	Self-Management Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	Self-Awareness	Cultivating a Growth Mindset	Students will explore how to transform “fixed mindset” statements into “growth mindset” statements.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Paws & Prejudice: Learning About Assumptions	Students will learn about assumptions as a foundation for learning about stereotypes, prejudice, and bias.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Social Cues Charades	Students will be able to identify and explain at least two aspects of social cues.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	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-Awareness	Expectations in Our Community	Students will explore and understand the varying expectations in different settings within their community.
K-2	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-Awareness	Gratitude Heart Cards	Students will learn about the value of showing gratitude to others.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Social Awareness Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	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	Self-Management	Organization 101	Students will be able to recognize the value and benefits of being organized.
K-2	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	Making Responsible Choices	Students will explore what decision-making means and looks like.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Self-Awareness Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Followed by the Leader	Students will learn why clear communication is essential to leadership.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Relationship Skills Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	Self-Awareness	Truth Towers	Students will learn about the benefits of telling the truth.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Relationship Skills Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	Social-Awareness	I Spy a Strength	Students will learn to recognize others’ strengths.
K-2	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	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	Relationship-Skills	Cultures Are Cool!	Students will understand that we all have cultural traditions, some of which are similar to or different from our own.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Color and Share: Social Awareness	Students will explore what social awareness means to them.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Empathetic Body Language	Students will be able to identify what body language communicates empathy.
K-2	Self-Management	Self-Advocacy Contracts	Students will learn what self-advocacy is and strategies for asking for support.
K-2	Self-Management	Being a Self-Starter	Students learn about what it means to take initiative and be a self- starter.
K-2	Self-Management	Self-Agency Salad Bar	Students learn what self-agency is and tools to help them make personal choices.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Kind Word Hearts	Students will be able to recognize the power that words can have on others and themselves.
K-2	Self-Management	Color and Share: Self-Management	Students will explore what self-management means to them.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Color and Share: Relationship Skills	Students will explore what relationship skills are and mean to them.
K-2	Social-Awareness	How Systems Influence Our Behaviors	Students will learn about how systems may shape our behaviors.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Wheel of Emotions	Students will be able to describe when they feel an assortment of emotions.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Strengths Stargazing	Students will understand the value of noticing others’ strengths.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Gallery of Emotions	Students will be able to identify a feeling that matches a facial expression.
K-2	Self-Management	Focus, Engage, Persevere	Students will learn about self-management strategies that can help them focus, engage, and persevere.
K-2	Relationship-Skills	Sensory Empathy	Students will understand how empathy helps us maintain positive relationships.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Unbe-LEAF-able Colors!	Students will learn that diversity is evident in all areas of nature, including people.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Self-Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	Social-Awareness	Gratitude Gifts	Students will learn that we can show gratitude through our actions.
K-2	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	I Am Curious	Students will learn about how curiosity supports decision-making.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Turning Thoughts Around	Students will learn that revising a negative thought can produce a positive feeling.
K-2	Self-Management	I Can Set a Goal!	Students will learn how to set goals and monitor their progress in achieving them.
K-2	Responsible-Decision-Making	How Can I Help?	Students will learn about why it is important to help others.
K-2	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	Color and Share: Responsible Decision-Making	Students will explore what responsible decision-making means to them.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Gratitude Flowers	Students will learn about the importance of expressing gratitude.
K-2	Self-Management	Courage To Try	Students will learn about the role courage plays in learning and growing.
K-2	Self-Management	Self-Management Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
K-2	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	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-Awareness	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore social awareness through discussion prompts.
K-2	Social-Awareness	Two Perspectives	Students will be able to identify the perspective of each character in a skit.
K-2	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-Awareness	What Are Norms?	Students will understand what norms are and be able to identify norms in various situations.
K-2	Self-Awareness	Color and Share: Self-Awareness	Students will explore what self-awareness means to them.
K-2	Self-Management	Raccoon Detective	Students will enhance self-management skills by practicing self- control.
K-2	Self-Management	aMAZEing Planning	Students will learn about the importance of making a plan that they or others can follow to accomplish a task.
3-5	Self-Management	Self-Advocating as a Learner	Students will explore how to self-advocate as a learner.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Exploring Self-Efficacy	Students will understand the concept of self-efficacy.
3-5	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	Decisions for Me and You	Students reflect on how decision-making can affect individuals and communities.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Spheres of Impact	Students will learn how their actions impact themselves, friends, classmates, and the school.
3-5	Self-Awareness	I Am/I Do	Students reflect on who they are, what they can do, and their future capabilities.
3-5	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Social-Awareness	Practicing Perspective	Students will learn how to present a perspective, even when it is not their own perspective.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	I Notice, I Wonder, I Would	Students will explore how observation and curiosity support decision-making and action.
3-5	Self-Management	SMART Goal-Setting	Students will be able to edit a goal to be a “SMART” goal.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Be an Upstander	Students will learn what it means to be an upstander versus a bystander.
3-5	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	Self-Management	Which Type of Agency?	Students will learn that personal and collective agency are involved in many life situations.
3-5	Self-Management	Create Your Calm	Students will learn nine calming strategies and how and why they work.
3-5	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	Social Media Challenges Decision Trees	Students will learn how to evaluate social media challenges using decision trees.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Six Steps to Standing Up	Students will learn a strategy to help them stand up for themselves and for others.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Honesty and Integrity Comic Strips	Students will explore the connection between honesty and integrity.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Dilemma Decoders	Students will learn about the connection between perspective- taking and decision-making when faced with a dilemma.
3-5	Self-Management	Sensory Soothers	Students explore sensory experiences that are calming for them.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Leadership Course	Students will learn about leadership skills they have and would like to develop.
3-5	Self-Management	Courageous Conclusions	Students will be able to identify solutions to a problem.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will learn about various relationship skills through discussion prompts.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Showing Support	Students will understand the importance of supporting others.
3-5	Self-Management	Self-Management Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Social-Awareness	Understanding Norms	Students will be able to identify norms for various situations.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Making Faces	Students will be able to demonstrate feeling a given emotion with their facial expressions.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Gratitude Bingo	Students will learn about the many ways gratitude plays a role in their lives.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Having an Open Mind	Students explore what is means to be open-minded.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Positive Communication Concentration	Students learn about effective and positive ways to communicate with others.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Social Cues Charades	Students will be able to identify and explain at least two aspects of social cues.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Create a Vision	Students will be explore their personalities, ideas, and goals through a visual representation.
3-5	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	Self-Awareness	Identifying Bias	Students will learn how opinions and biases are related.
3-5	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	Self-Management	Focus, Engage, Persevere	Students will be able to sort strategies into the categories of focus, engagement, and perseverance.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Expectations 4-Square	Students will explore situational expectations that are common and unique to a variety of places.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Our Vibrant Community Quilt	Students will learn how cultural awareness and diversity contribute to a vibrant community.
3-5	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	Relationship-Skills	Making Sincere Apologies	Students will learn how to construct a meaningful apology.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Cultivating Community	Students will understand what community service is and the benefits of volunteering to support others.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	The Importance of Dependability	Students will be able to explain what it means to be dependable.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Ripple Effects of Decisions	Students will learn about how their decisions may affect others.
3-5	Self-Management	Sizing Up a Problem	Students will understand the connection between the size of a problem and the size of their emotional reactions.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Making Reasoned Judgments	Students will learn an organized way to make a reasoned judgment.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Self-Awareness	Sparks & Purpose	Students will learn interests, talents to identify how they intersect in a purpose.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Team Building Blocks	Students will practice collaborating with others to accomplish a team goal.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Relationship Skills Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Social-Awareness	Strengths Dream Team	Students will learn what personal strengths are, both those they possess and may aspire to.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Conflict Charades	Students explore various strategies for resolving conflicts in respectful ways.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore social awareness through discussion prompts.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Self-Awareness Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Self-Management	Initiative and Courage	Students will learn that taking initiative requires various types of courage.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Empathy Role Play	Students will understand that we both give and receive empathy.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Social Awareness Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Offer or Seek Help?	Students will understand the importance of evaluating what type of help is needed in a situation.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Tell Me You’re Honest	Students will learn about the qualities that contribute to honesty.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Kindness in a Two-Way Street	Students will understand that relationships involve give and take.
3-5	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	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	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-Awareness	Celebrating Our Strengths	Students will learn about and celebrate classmates’ strengths.
3-5	Self-Management	What Motivates Me?	Students will reflect on what motivation is and its role in their lives.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Empathetic Questions	Students will be able to formulate questions that communicate empathy.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Many Ways To Communicate	Students will learn about the role nonverbal communication strategies play in our interactions with others.
3-5	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-Awareness	Finding Silver Linings	Students will learn about the value of positive thinking.
3-5	Self-Awareness	How Did I Grow Today?	Students will reflect on the many opportunities they have to learn every day.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Social Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Self-Management	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore self-management through discussion prompts.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Personal Strengths Inventory	Students will be able to identify some of their personal strengths.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Curious Questions	Students will demonstrate curiosity and listening to others.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Mood Meter	Students explore positive and negative emotions and the energy it takes to manage them.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Gratitude Scoops	Students will understand that gratitude is both a feeling and an action.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Relationship Skills Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Self-Awareness	What’s Inside?	Students will explore invisible differences and how they can influence our interactions with each other.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore self-awareness through discussion prompts.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Self-Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Self-Management	Self-Management Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
3-5	Social-Awareness	Empathy Collage	Students will be able to identify and discuss others’ feelings.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Social Dilemma Decision-Making	Students will be able to practice making decisions that have positive outcomes.
3-5	Social-Awareness	Two Perspectives	Students will learn about identifying multiple perspectives in a situation.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Emotions Equations	Students will explore how are emotions are linked to our needs and actions.
3-5	Self-Management	Captain of My Day	Students will learn how to chart their daily responsibilities to help their days run smoothly.
3-5	Self-Management	Stress Management Match-Up	Students will be able to match triggers with appropriate coping strategies.
3-5	Relationship-Skills	Team Task Team-Building	Students will be able to listen and communicate clearly in order to work collaboratively with others.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Butterfly Effect	Students will learn how simple acts may lead to a variety of outcomes.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Morning Meeting Conversation Starters	Students will explore responsible decision-making through discussion prompts.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Wheel of Emotions	Students will explore the nuances of a range of emotions.
3-5	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-Awareness	Strengths in Others	Students will learn that everyone has individual strengths and reflect on strengths they admire in others.
3-5	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	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-Awareness	Expectations by Environment	Students compare how behavioral expectations vary by environment.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Dilemma Drama	Students consider how to weigh pros and cons when making decisions.
3-5	Responsible-Decision-Making	Critical Thinking in Motion	Students will practice critical thinking skills.
3-5	Self-Awareness	Hobby Studies	Students will understand the connections between their hobbies and their academic learning.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Circle of Impact	Students will recognize the impact of their decisions on those around them.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	Leading with Movement	Students will learn how to demonstrate leadership nonverbally by guiding their peers through clear, creative movements.
6-8	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-Awareness	Gratitude Cards	Students will practice expressing gratitude toward others by recognizing their peers’ contributions to the classroom community.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Know Your Norms	Students will explore why norms are important for helping us navigate different situations and environments.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Gratitude Graffiti	Students will practice expressing gratitude using words, drawings, and symbols.
6-8	Self-Management	Motivate Me	Students will reflect about what motivates them personally.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	Relationship Skills Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	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	Self-Awareness	Stereotype or Bias?	Students learn to define and differentiate between “stereotype” and “bias.”
6-8	Self-Awareness	Self-Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Let’s Get Ethical	Students will explore the role of ethics in decision-making.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	Relationship Skills Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Relationship-Skills	Four Best Qualities	Students will reflect on the qualities that support positive relationships.
6-8	Social-Awareness	I Admire Your Strengths	Students will recognize classmates’ strengths and reflect on how those strengths benefit their classmates and others.
6-8	Self-Awareness	The Story I Am Telling Myself	Students will define “limiting belief” and “growth mindset” and consider strategies for promoting their own growth mindset.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Through Another’s Eyes	Students will learn how to define empathy.
6-8	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	Making a Case	Students will learn how to make a reasoned judgment after analyzing information, data, and facts in a case study.
6-8	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	Self-Awareness	Having a Sense of Purpose	Students will explore what it means to have a sense of purpose.
6-8	Self-Management	Planning Ahead for Success	Students will understand how planning ahead help them meet their daily commitments successfully.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Self-Management	Take the De-Escalator	Students will learn about physical stress signals and strategies to maintain or regain self-control.
6-8	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	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	Relationship-Skills	Making Cultural Connections	Students will learn what cultural competence is and learn about some their classmates’ cultural traditions.
6-8	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-Awareness	Seize the Moment	Students will learn how to recognize situational demands in challenging situations so they take positive action.
6-8	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	Relationship-Skills	Exploring Leadership Techniques	Students will understand different leadership techniques and how they apply to different situations.
6-8	Self-Management	Self-Regulation Strategies	Students will learn about strategies for self-regulation and impulse control.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	What Makes a Team Work?	Students will explore the qualities that make a team effective.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	Tough Conversations	Students will explore strategies for how to engage in tough conversations with their friends.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Whose Story Is It?	Students will learn how to have empathy and compassion by looking at events from multiple perspectives.
6-8	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	Self-Awareness	Where I'm From Poems	Students will learn to use writing as a way to reflect about themselves authentically.
6-8	Self-Awareness	Identity Glasses	Students will identify and differentiate between their various social and personal identities.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Responding with Curiosity	Students will understand the importance of curiosity in effective decision-making.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Bubbling Over With Respect	Students will explore what respect and sounds like in action.
6-8	Self-Awareness	One Great Accomplishment	Students will reflect about an accomplishment that boosts their self- confidence.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Social Awareness Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Self-Management	Stepping Up To Goal Setting	Students will explore a concrete strategy for setting and achieving attainable goals.
6-8	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	Relationship-Skills	Conflict Resolution Tiles	Students will learn and practice strategies for appropriate responses to conflict.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Celebrating Strengths Acrostic Poems	Students will consider personal strengths they admire in others.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Social Awareness Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	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	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	Relationship-Skills	Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like	Students will understand what respectful relationships look like, feel like, and sound like.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Decision Role Play	Students will explore the steps for safe, ethical decision-making.
6-8	Self-Management	Thanksgiving Food Drive	Students will build executive functioning skills by planning and organizing a fictional service-learning project.
6-8	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	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	Self-Awareness	Try My Shoes	Students will explore the importance of having empathy.
6-8	Self-Awareness	Let’s Be Honest	Students will learn about the connections between honesty and integrity and the value of both.
6-8	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	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	Relationship-Skills	Communication Is Key	Students will practice communicating effectively with peers and adults through role play.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Mobilizing Gratitude	Students will expand their understanding of gratitude and its importance in our lives.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Evaluating the Options	Students will explore how to weigh options when making decisions.
6-8	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	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	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	You Power!	Students learn about how they can have positive impacts on the communities they are part of.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	Communication in Many Forms	Students will explore the power of communication to be positive or negative.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Critical Thinking Breakdown	Students will understand that critical thinking is important inside and outside of the classroom.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Perspectives x 2	Students will consider multiple perspectives in a situation.
6-8	Self-Awareness	Exploring Honesty and Integrity	Students will learn about the importance of honesty and integrity when faced with challenging situations.
6-8	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	Relationship-Skills	Active Listening Interviews	Students understand the role active listening plays in forming and managing positive relationships.
6-8	Self-Management	Not JUST a Word	Students will learn to harness the power of the word “just” when building self-discipline and self-motivation.
6-8	Self-Awareness	Self-Awareness Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Responsible Decision-Making Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Self-Awareness	Uncomfortable Truths	Students will learn about integrity by evaluating scenarios.
6-8	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	Self-Management	Zones of Comfort	Students will learn to identify their “zones of comfort” to support them in taking initiative.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	What’s Happening?	Students will learn a strategy for formulating effective questions using their curiosity.
6-8	Self-Awareness	Self-Perception and Actions	Students will reflect on their sense of self and how this influences their actions.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Empathy Toolkit	Students will learn a strategy to help them understand others’ perspectives and demonstrate empathy.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	That’s Upstanding!	Students learn to analyze conflicts and stand up for others’ rights.
6-8	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	Posting with Purpose	Students will learn how their choices on social media can influence others in positive or negative ways.
6-8	Self-Management	Who Can Help?	Students will learn to assess whether a response to a situation is their personal responsibility, a shared responsibility, or the responsibility of others.
6-8	Social-Awareness	Considering Social Norms	Students will learn how to identify social norms and consider their positive and negative impacts.
6-8	Self-Management	Self-Management Check-Ins (English)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Social-Awareness	Understanding Terms: Bias, Prejudice, Discrimination	Students will be able to define and understand the words bias, prejudice, and discrimination.
6-8	Self-Management	Self-Management Check-Ins (Spanish)	A set of daily SEL check-ins
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	Curious Birds	Students will learn to demonstrate curiosity and open-mindedness.
6-8	Social-Awareness	My Personal Influencers	Students will explore how the personal strengths of people closest to them influence their own thinking, behaviors, and values.
6-8	Relationship-Skills	Including Inclusion	Students will understand the importance of perspective in decision- making and practice advocating for others’ rights.
6-8	Responsible-Decision-Making	The Struggle Is Ideal	Students will identify challenges they have faced and reflect on the ways in which their lives improved as a result of those struggles.
6-8	Self-Awareness	Prejudice or Bias Bingo	Students will learn to define “prejudice” and “bias” and then evaluate example scenarios for potential prejudice.
6-8	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	Responsible-Decision-Making	THINK! About Critical Thinking	Students will learn a process for applying critical thinking skills effectively in their lives.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Restorative Circles Introduction	Students learn about the key concepts and benefits related to restorative practices and participate in a practice circle.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Creating Connections Circle	Students will explore the connections they have with their classmates.
High School	Social-Awareness	Active Listening Practice	Students learn about active listening by observing participants in an interview.
High School	Self-Awareness	Mindfulness Introduction	Students learn how to incorporate mindfulness practices into their daily lives.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Five Steps of Conflict Resolution	Students learn and practice conflict resolution strategies to support healthy relationships.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Purposeful Listening	Students will practice listening to others fully and with intention as a means of fostering trust and deepening relationships.
High School	Self-Awareness	Now & Future	Students will reflect on their current identity, values, and experiences in order to envision their future with greater self-awareness, purpose, and personal agency.
High School	Self-Management	Building Classroom Community	Students will explore their common values and identify the norms they believe are important for their classroom community.
High School	Self-Management	Focused Breathing for Stress Management	Students will learn a set of simple and accessible focused breathing exercises to help them manage stressful situations.
High School	Self-Awareness	Who Am I? Questionnaire	Students will improve self-awareness by responding to a questionnaire about their preferences, desires, goals, and skills.
High School	Self-Management	Recognizing and Responding to Triggers	Students will explore their triggers and build action plans for managing their emotional responses in healthy, socially adaptive ways.
High School	Social-Awareness	Perspective-Taking Practice (Single Perspective)	In order to practice perspective-taking, students will explore brief social scenarios.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	If I Won the Lottery	Students will imagine themselves as lottery winners to reflect on their self-management skill set.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Reflecting on Honesty and Integrity	Students reflect on the concepts of trustworthiness, integrity, and honesty to develop a deeper understanding of responsible decision-making.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Community Circle Work	Students will be led through a circle discussion aimed at building relationships within their classroom community.
High School	Self-Awareness	Goal-Setting SMARTs	Students will practice goal-setting and long-term planning as helpful vehicles for understanding their aspirations and ambitions.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Avoiding Toxic Relationships	Students will reflect on the positive attributes and traits they expect from themselves and others in their healthy relationships.
High School	Self-Management	5-to-1 Grounding	In an educator-guided process, students explore an emotional regulation technique.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Support Flowchart	Students will create flowcharts of adults in their lives who can help them work through challenges or adversity.
High School	Social-Awareness	Recognizing Others’ Strengths	Students will develop their social awareness skills by recognizing and expressing their peers’ abilities and attributes.
High School	Social-Awareness	Reflection Empathy Wheel	Students will reflect on a personal experience as means of strengthening their empathy skills.
High School	Self-Awareness	Mirrors & Windows	Students will explore identity from both internal and external viewpoints.
High School	Self-Awareness	Social Media and Self-Awareness	Students will consider the relationship between authentic self-awareness and self-portrayal on social media.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Conflict Resolution Skits	Students will practice conflict resolution skills in low-stakes, socially supportive settings that allow for productive, meaningful feedback.
High School	Social-Awareness	Building Classroom Community	Students will explore their common values and identify the norms they believe are important for their classroom community.
High School	Self-Management	Get a GRIPP	Students explore goal-setting and action planning as strategies to develop and enhance self-management skills and self-control.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Resisting Social Media Pressure	Students learn strategies for resisting negative social media peer pressure.
High School	Social-Awareness	Social Media and Social Awareness	Students will explore the benefits and drawbacks of social media environments as opportunities to broaden or disrupt their social awareness.
High School	Social-Awareness	Decoding Nonverbal Cues	Students learn about the role nonverbal communication plays in social awareness and the development of healthy relationships.
High School	Self-Management	Inner Voice	Students will learn about using their “inner voice” to help them face transitions and stressful situations.
High School	Self-Awareness	Self-Awareness Role-Playing	Students learn about and hone traits, characteristics, and skills associated with self-awareness.
High School	Relationship-Skills	Understanding Communication Patterns	Students will work to define four patterns of interpersonal interactions and reflect on how these approaches inform relationship-building.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Cost/Benefit Analysis	Students will evaluate real-life scenarios and use a cost/benefit analysis process to evaluate solutions.
High School	Self-Awareness	Advice for Yourself	Students will reflect on past decisions as a means of developing self-awareness and skills around future-thinking and planning.
High School	Self-Management	Managing Stressful Situations	Students will reflect on personally stressful situations and strategize options for managing their stress effectively.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Thinking Beyond Yourself	Using a reflection exercise, students develop healthy and adaptive decision-making skills and reinforce social awareness and relationship skills.
High School	Self-Management	Eisenhower Matrix: A Tool for Prioritizing	Students learn about and practice using a tool for organizing and managing tasks and responsibilities in their lives.
High School	Social-Awareness	Listening to Understand Relay	To practice active listening as an important element of social awareness, students will participate in a storytelling activity.
High School	Social-Awareness	Gratitude Messages	Students will reflect on the impacts others have had on their lives and create messages to express their gratitude to those people directly.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Courageous Choices	Students will understand the meaning of courage and reflect on courageous choices they have made.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	How Would You Handle It?	Students explore different scenarios to practice decision-making skills.
High School	Self-Awareness	Personal Strengths Inventory	Students explore how self-awareness influences their ability to work collaboratively with others, adapt to challenges, and set and achieve goals.
High School	Self-Awareness	Personal Values Reflection	Students will identify their some of their personal values and reflect on how these values act as guiding factors in their lives.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Proactive Decision-Making PLANS	Students practice proactive decision-making for a decision they anticipate.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Linking Emotions to Actions	Students explore how their emotions influenced their behavioral choices and decisions in various life events.
High School	Self-Management	Goals & Intentions	Students will learn how to set an intention as a specific and reachable form of goal-setting.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Personal Goal Planner	Students will explore a strategy for managing their decision-making, reducing stress, and easing feelings of being overwhelmed.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Moral and Ethical Dilemmas	Students will engage in critical thinking drills that will help develop their moral and ethical compasses.
High School	Responsible-Decision-Making	Building a Legacy	Students will reflect on the idea of legacy by exploring how their actions can influence others.
High School	Self-Awareness	STEAM-Powered Reflection	Students will use mindfulness strategies to reflect on the connection(s) among their thoughts, emotions, and actions.
High School	Social-Awareness	Perspective-Taking Practice (Multiple Perspectives)	Students will read brief scenarios and interpret multiple viewpoints.
High School	Self-Management	Daily Emotion Planners	Students strengthen emotional regulation skills using proactive planning.

Grade	Disability	Lesson Title	Description
K-2	Introductory	Disability Brainstorm Web	Students will share what they know about disabilities.
K-2	Introductory	Defining Disability	Students will learn about what disability is.
K-2	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	Introductory	Exploring Our Differences	Students will be able to talk about what makes people different and embrace something unique about themselves
K-2	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	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	Introductory	Using a KWL Chart	Students will identify what they already know and what they want to learn about disability.
K-2	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	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	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	Cognitive-Differences	Understanding Traumatic Brain Injuries	Students will understand how important it is to protect their brains.
K-2	Visual-Impairments	Guiding the Blind	Students will learn about various types of assistance for people with visual impairments.
K-2	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	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Voice Disorders	Students gain a greater awareness and understanding of voice disorders.
K-2	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Charades	Students will learn that they can communicate with and without words
K-2	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	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	Learning-Disabilities	Supporting Our Classmates	Students will consider specific ways that they can support their classmates in learning.
K-2	Learning-Disabilities	Think About Learning Differences	Students will recognize that everyone learns things differently and everyone is capable of doing different things.
K-2	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Feel the Rhythm	Students will explore rhythm and body movements as a way to experience music.
K-2	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	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	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	What Do You Hear?	Students will learn about how our ears work to capture sounds all around us.
K-2	Autism-Spectrum	Amazing Autism	Students will apply their knowledge of autism to create posters that help spread awareness.
K-2	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	Autism-Spectrum	Visual Perspective-Taking	Students will learn about visual perspective to begin making connections to conceptual perspective.
K-2	Autism-Spectrum	Autism Introduction	Students will be introduced to autism and understand that it is okay for people to be different.
K-2	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Emoji Emotions	Students will draw emoji to connect feelings to statements regarding emotions.
K-2	Speech-Language-Disabilities	AAC Devices Introduction	Students will learn what AAC devices are and how people use them.
K-2	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	Visual-Impairments	Navigating Vision Loss	Students will envision the world as a person with vision and without.
K-2	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Communication Challenges Telephone Game	Students will learn the similarities and differences between expressive and receptive language disorders.
K-2	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	Visual-Impairments	Picture in Your Mind	Students will use detailed language to construct verbal “pictures.”
K-2	Physical-Disabilities	Playground Accessibility Analysis	Students will evaluate the accessibility of a school or community playground space for various physical abilities.
K-2	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	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	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	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Hearing Aids	Students will understand that hearing aids help people who have a hearing loss to hear more clearly.
K-2	Cognitive-Differences	Cognitive Differences Survey	Students will evaluate and reflect on their own learning through a summative survey about cognitive differences.
K-2	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Articulation Disorders	Students will gain a greater awareness and understanding about articulation disorders.
K-2	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	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	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	Physical-Disabilities	Challenges with a Physical Disability	Students will learn about some of the challenges that come with having various physical disabilities.
K-2	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	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	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	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	What Is Stuttering?	Students will gain a greater awareness and understanding about fluency disorders.
K-2	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	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	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	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Supporting Friends	Students will brainstorm ways to be a supportive friend.
K-2	Cognitive-Differences	Difficulty Drawing	Students will experience how some people with cognitive differences have difficulty understanding what others say or mean.
K-2	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	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	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Navigating Hearing Loss	Students will envision the world as a person with hearing and without.
K-2	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	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	Autism-Spectrum	Making Friends	Students will identify strategies for making friends.
K-2	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	A Loss For Words	Students will experience what it is like to have to communicate without using their voices.
K-2	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	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	Physical-Disabilities	Nervous System	Students will understand the job of the central nervous system and why a physical disability may occur.
K-2	Learning-Disabilities	Learn a New Way	Students will practice several ways to accomplish the same task.
K-2	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	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	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	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	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	Learning-Disabilities	How the Brain Works	Students will understand that different parts of the brain are responsible for different types of learning.
K-2	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	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Hearing Helpers	Students will explore assistive technologies for hearing loss.
K-2	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	Physical-Disabilities	Duck’s Disability	Students will learn about physical disabilities and how they can affect any living creature.
K-2	Learning-Disabilities	We All Learn Differently	Students will explore how we all learn things in our own way.
K-2	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	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	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	Physical-Disabilities	Assistive Technologies	Students will explore assistive technologies for physical impairments.
K-2	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Vision Board Circles	Students will explore what makes them unique and why our diverse qualities and experiences are valuable.
K-2	Social-Emotional-Impairments	What Is Selective Mutism?	Students will gain an awareness and understanding of selective mutism.
K-2	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Reading Facial Expressions	Students will learn about how facial expressions help us recognize how others are feeling.
K-2	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	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	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	Autism-Spectrum	Smell and Taste Test	Students will experience a sensory comparison.
K-2	Visual-Impairments	See with Senses	Students will build awareness about and empathy toward people with visual impairments.
K-2	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	Autism-Spectrum	Amazing Autism	Students will use their knowledge about autism to help spread awareness and promote acceptance.
3-5	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Protecting Our Hearing	Students will promote ear protection and damage prevention.
3-5	Physical-Disabilities	Transforming Technologies	Students will design a costume that artfully incorporates assistive technologies for individuals with physical disabilities
3-5	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	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	How We Hear	Students will understand how we hear.
3-5	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	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	Learning-Disabilities	Supporting Our Classmates	Students will consider specific ways that they can support their classmates in learning.
3-5	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	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	Learning-Disabilities	We All Learn Differently	Students will explore how we all learn things in our own way.
3-5	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Good Communication Techniques	Students will understand the value of good communication skills no matter who you are communicating with.
3-5	Cognitive-Differences	What's Missing?	Students will gain awareness and empathy for people who have cognitive delays.
3-5	Autism-Spectrum	Autism: Experiencing the World Differently	Students will understand that individuals may react differently even in similar situations.
3-5	Physical-Disabilities	ADA Scavenger Hunt	Students will assess how their school is accessible to people with physical disabilities.
3-5	Autism-Spectrum	Famous Autistic People	Students will learn about how autistic individuals can do exceptional things and about famous autistic people.
3-5	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	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	Introductory	Seeds of Positivity	Students will explore how unkind words and kind words affect people.
3-5	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	Introductory	Introduction to Person-First Language	Students how to communicate respectfully by putting an individual before his or her disability.
3-5	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	Autism-Spectrum	Visual Perspective-Taking	Students will learn about visual perspective to begin making connections to conceptual perspective.
3-5	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	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	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	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	Autism-Spectrum	Autism Introduction	Students will learn about how autistic people may react differently to sensory experiences in their environments.
3-5	Introductory	Disability Brainstorm Web	Students will share what they know about disabilities.
3-5	Speech-Language-Disabilities	AAC Devices Introduction	Students will learn what AAC devices are and how people use them.
3-5	Autism-Spectrum	Invisible vs Visible Differences	Students will identify invisible and visible differences.
3-5	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	Visual-Impairments	How Our Eyes Work	Students will learn about the structure of the eye and how the eye works.
3-5	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	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	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Anatomy of the Ear	Students will identify the parts of the ear.
3-5	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	Introductory	What Is Empathy?	Students will learn what empathy is and begin to understand its role in building positive relationships.
3-5	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Navigating Speech Impairments	Students will envision the world as a person with a speech impairment.
3-5	Introductory	Welcome Neighbors	Students will understand the difference between welcoming behaviors and unwelcoming behaviors and reflect on the value of inclusion.
3-5	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	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Vision Board Circles	Students will explore what makes them unique and why our diverse qualities and experiences are valuable.
3-5	Visual-Impairments	Common Visual Impairments	Students will learn about some of the common types of visual impairments.
3-5	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Voice Disorders	Students gain a greater awareness and understanding of voice disorders.
3-5	Visual-Impairments	Braille Around the School	Students will make their school more accessible to people who have visual impairments.
3-5	Visual-Impairments	Guiding the Blind	Students will learn about various types of assistance for people with visual impairments.
3-5	Learning-Disabilities	Understanding Dyscalculia	Students will learn what dyscalculia is and how it makes learning math more difficult.
3-5	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Supporting Friends with Anxiety	Students will be able to identify strategies for supporting peers who have anxiety.
3-5	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	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	Visual-Impairments	What’s the Meaning of This?	Students will practice using common prefixes, roots, and suffixes to define visual impairment terms.
3-5	Social-Emotional-Impairments	What Is Selective Mutism?	Students will gain an awareness and understanding of selective mutism.
3-5	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	Learning-Disabilities	Fact or Myth? Talking About Learning Disabilities?	Students will apply their learning about learning disabilities to sort myths from facts.
3-5	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	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Living With Anxiety	Students will learn how anxiety can affect all facets of someone’s life.
3-5	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	Cognitive-Differences	Difficulty Drawing	Students will experience how some people with cognitive differences have difficulty understanding what others say or mean.
3-5	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	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Recognizing Triggers	Students will identify their own triggers and coping strategies.
3-5	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	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	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	Introductory	Using a KWL Chart	Students will identify what they already know and what they want to learn about disability.
3-5	Cognitive-Differences	Cognitive Differences Survey	Students will evaluate and reflect on their own learning through a summative survey about cognitive differences.
3-5	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	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	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	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	Visual-Impairments	Help Me See	Students will explore assistive technologies for visual impairments.
3-5	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	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	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	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	Learning-Disabilities	Jumbled	Students will learn about dyslexia and try two simulation activities.
3-5	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Articulation Disorders	Students will gain a greater awareness and understanding about articulation disorders.
3-5	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Types of Hearing Loss	Students will learn about the two different types of hearing loss.
3-5	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Causes and Effects of Speech Impediments	Students will consider cause and effect using the relationship between behaviors and feelings.
3-5	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	Visual-Impairments	How Our Eyes Work	Students will learn about the structure of the eye and how it works.
6-8	Visual-Impairments	Visual Impairment Obstacle Course
6-8	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	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	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	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	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	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	Social-Emotional-Impairments	What Is Selective Mutism?	Students will gain an awareness and understanding of selective mutism.
6-8	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	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	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Supporting Friends With Anxiety	Students will be able to identify strategies for supporting peers who have anxiety.
6-8	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	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	Autism-Spectrum	Autism: Experiencing the World Differently	Students will understand that individuals may react differently even in similar situations.
6-8	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	Autism-Spectrum	Visual Perspective-Taking	Students will learn about visual perspective to begin making connections to conceptual perspective.
6-8	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	Introductory	Introduction to Person-First Language	Students how to communicate respectfully by putting an individual before his or her disability.
6-8	Physical-Disabilities	Adaptive and Inclusive Sports	Students will research and participate in inclusive and adaptive sports programs.
6-8	Learning-Disabilities	Success with ADHD	Students will learn that there are many people diagnosed with ADHD who experience success.
6-8	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Researching Language Disabilities	Students will research and report about language disabilities and ways to support people who have them.
6-8	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	Visual-Impairments	Chuck Close - Paralyzed Artist
6-8	Learning-Disabilities	ADHD Superpower	Students will learn that people with ADHD have strengths because of the way their brains works.
6-8	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Don’t Act Out – Act It Out!	Students will learn about and practice self-regulation skills.
6-8	Speech-Language-Disabilities	AAC Devices Introduction	Students will learn what AAC devices are and how people use them.
6-8	Physical-Disabilities	ADA Scavenger Hunt	Students will assess how their school is accessible to people with physical disabilities.
6-8	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	Learning-Disabilities	Understanding Dyscalculia	Students will learn what dyscalculia is and how it makes learning math more difficult.
6-8	Physical-Disabilities	Objectifying People with Disabilities	Students will learn about why it is essential to not objectify individuals with disabilities.
6-8	Autism-Spectrum	Day in Pictures	Students will learn about how some autistic people think in pictures instead of words.
6-8	Physical-Disabilities	Designing for Inclusion	Students will design a space that is inclusive for individuals with physical disabilities.
6-8	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	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Good Communication Techniques	Students will understand the value of good communication skills no matter who you are communicating with.
6-8	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	Learning-Disabilities	ADHD KWL	Students will learn that ADHD is a learning difference.
6-8	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Figuring Out Stress	Students will learn to differentiate between good and bad stress and increase awareness around stress management.
6-8	Cognitive-Differences	Welcoming Letters	Students will create welcoming letters for students and families.
6-8	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	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	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	Visual-Impairments	Braille Around the School	Students will make their school more accessible to people who have visual impairments.
6-8	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	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Stuttering Stories	Students will write letters or stories about stuttering and how to be supportive.
6-8	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	Introductory	Using a KWL Chart	Students will identify what they already know and what they want to learn about disability.
6-8	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	Introductory	What Is Empathy?	Students will learn what empathy is and begin to understand its role in building positive relationships.
6-8	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	Learning-Disabilities	Attention	Students will experience the implications of frequent distractions associated with ADD/ADHD
6-8	Speech-Language-Disabilities	What Are Speech Impairments?	Students will understand five types of speech disorders.
6-8	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	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	Cognitive-Differences	What’s Missing?	Students will gain awareness and empathy for people who have cognitive delays.
6-8	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	4D Movies	Students will create physical representations to add to the experience of two-dimensional media.
6-8	Learning-Disabilities	Dyslexia Introduction	Students will learn that dyslexia is a learning difference that makes it harder for people to read.
6-8	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	Autism-Spectrum	Famous Autistic People	Students will learn about how autistic individuals can do exceptional things and about famous autistic people.
6-8	Visual-Impairments	Common Visual Impairments	Students will learn about several types of visual impairments.
6-8	Visual-Impairments	Braille Exploration
6-8	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	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	Speech-Language-Disabilities	Navigating Speech Impairments	Students will envision the world as a person with speech impairments.
6-8	Learning-Disabilities	Designing for ADHD	Students will explore how schools can be more inclusive to all students.
6-8	Visual-Impairments	What’s the Meaning of This?	Students will practice using common prefixes, roots, and suffixes to define visual impairment terms.
6-8	Introductory	Welcome Neighbors	Students will understand the difference between welcoming behaviors and unwelcoming behaviors and reflect on the value of inclusion.
6-8	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	Sound Effects	Students will learn how sound effects are created.
6-8	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	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	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	Autism-Spectrum	Autism Introduction	Students will learn about how autistic people may react differently to sensory experiences in their environments.
6-8	Autism-Spectrum	Invisible vs Visible Differences	Students will identify invisible and visible differences.
6-8	Introductory	Letter to Yourself	Students will reflect on their current biases, stereotypes, and perspectives about people with disabilities.
6-8	Hearing-Loss-Deafness	How We Hear	Students will understand how we hear and the two different types of hearing loss.
6-8	Visual-Impairments	See with Senses and Assistance	Students will build awareness about and empathy toward people with visual impairments.
6-8	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Managing Emotions	Students will learn and practice self-regulation techniques.
6-8	Cognitive-Differences	Dyspraxia and Memory	Students will gain an understanding of how dyspraxia can affect memory.
6-8	Introductory	Awareness and Respect	Students will learn the expectations for future class discussions.
6-8	Cognitive-Differences	Dyspraxia and Motor Difficulties	Students will gain a deeper understanding of motor difficulties associated with dyspraxia.
6-8	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	Introductory	Disability Brainstorm Web	Students will share what they know about disabilities.
6-8	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	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.
High School	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Exploring Social Anxiety	Students will explore and understand what it is like to have social anxiety.
High School	Language-and-History-Around-Disability	Redefining Disabled	Students will consider the language used to describe people who have disabilities.
High School	Famous-People-with-Disabilities	Bipolar Disorder Is Not a Joke	Students will learn about consider responses to and language about those with bipolar disorder.
High School	Disability-in-the-Media	Represent	Students will learn that there are powerful, immediate, and personal effects of disability representation in media.
High School	Learning-Disabilities	Can You Read This?	Students will learn about how some people with dyslexia experience reading.
High School	Mental-Health	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Overview	Students will understand OCD, the impact it has on the human brain, and the experiences of people who have it.
High School	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Thinking About Self-Regulation	Students will explore and understand why some people struggle with self-regulation.
High School	Assistive-Technology	Assistive Technology in School	Students will explore the role of assistive technology in a school setting.
High School	Hearing-and-Vision-Impairment	Hearing Loss Overview	Students will learn about various aspects of hearing loss.
High School	Introductory	Unpacking Empathy	Students will think more deeply about what empathy is and why it is an important life skill.
High School	Cognitive-Differences	What Is Dyspraxia?	Students will gain a basic understanding of dyspraxia.
High School	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Understanding Depression	Students will understand the difference between sadness and depression and learn about treatments for depression.
High School	Autism-Spectrum	Animals and Autism	Students will examine the connection between humans and animals and learn about how animals can provide therapeutic supports.
High School	Physical-Disabilities	Questions Narratives Around Disability	Students will explore why it is important to question cultural narratives around disability.
High School	Disability-in-the-Media	Media Stereotyping	Students will explore the portrayal of disability in the media.
High School	Hearing-and-Vision-Impairment	How We Hear	Students will learn about the process of hearing.
High School	Autism-Spectrum	Autism and Empathy	Students will understand how one woman with autism channeled her empathy into helping animals.
High School	Learning-Disabilities	Sensory Processing Disorder Overview	Students will understand what sensory processing disorder is and how it can affect learning and school experiences.
High School	Disability-in-the-Media	Importance of Media Visibility	Students will explore why it is important for people with disabilities to participate in and be represented in the media.
High School	Introductory	Invisible Disabilities	Students will gain an understanding of invisible disabilities.
High School	Cognitive-Differences	Down Syndrome Interview	Students will learn about how some individuals with Down syndrome experience the world.
High School	Famous-People-with-Disabilities	Make a Match	Students will learn about famous people with disabilities.
High School	Physical-Disabilities	Cerebral Palsy Overview	Students will gain an understanding of cerebral palsy.
High School	Disability-in-the-Media	Mixed-Bag Media	Students will explore how media representation of disability has and has not changed.
High School	Autism-Spectrum	No Cues	Students will understand the challenges someone with autism might have in reading nonverbal cues.
High School	Language-and-History-Around-Disability	Person-First Language	Students will learn about person-first language.
High School	Physical-Disabilities	Inclusive Design	Students will design a space that is inclusive for individuals with physical disabilities.
High School	Mental-Health	Youth Mental Health Care	Students will understand that caring for our mental health is important for everyone.
High School	Assistive-Technology	Best Tech for the Job	Students will become familiar with the range of assistive devices and their uses.
High School	Cognitive-Differences	Different Perspective on Down Syndrome	Students will increase their understanding of Down syndrome and how people with Down syndrome live within our society.
High School	Autism-Spectrum	Autism from Different Perspectives	Students will understand that people’s experiences of autism vary greatly.
High School	Mental-Health	Taking Care of Your Mental Health	Students will consider what they can do to develop and maintain positive mental health.
High School	Mental-Health	What Is Bipolar Disorder?	Students will become familiar with bipolar disorder and will consider how mental-health-specific language is often used inaccurately.
High School	Language-and-History-Around-Disability	Why the R-Word Is Not Okay	Students will consider the word “retarded” (“the R-word”) and understand how harmful it is.
High School	Famous-People-with-Disabilities	Famous Folks with Disabilities	Students will become familiar with a range of famous people who have disabilities.
High School	Hearing-and-Vision-Impairment	Living With Blindness	Students will learn about one person’s experience with blindness.
High School	Hearing-and-Vision-Impairment	Another Way of Seeing Blindness	Students will consider blindness from a new perspective.
High School	Learning-Disabilities	Low-Distraction Learning Spaces	Students will design a classroom to support students with attention challenges.
High School	Assistive-Technology	Learn About Wheelchairs	Students will explore different types of wheelchairs.
High School	Social-Emotional-Impairments	Past Experiences, Present Reactions	Students will consider others’ perspectives and how past experiences impact our reactions to situations.
High School	Language-and-History-Around-Disability	Diversabililty Movement	Students will learn about the origins and purpose of the diversability movement.
High School	Assistive-Technology	Assistive Technology Assessment	Students will understand what assistive technology is and how it is used in their classroom or school.
High School	Learning-Disabilities	Different Take on ADHD	Students will consider ADHD from a different perspective.
High School	Introductory	What Is Accessibility?	Students will explore how accessibility needs vary depending on an individual’s disability.
High School	Cognitive-Differences	Special Olympics History	Students will understand the history and role of the Special Olympics for people with intellectual disabilities.
High School	Famous-People-with-Disabilities	Hearing Loss in the Entertainment Industry	Students will learn about celebrities who have a hearing loss.
High School	Introductory	Two Models of Disability	Students will explore two main models used for thinking about disability.
High School	Physical-Disabilities	Understanding Muscular Dystrophy	Students will understand what muscular dystrophy is and will hear about individuals’ experiences with the disability.