CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Beauty & Happiness: How Can We Achieve Happiness?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How can we achieve happiness?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
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Elementary School Counseling: Identifying and Expressing Feelings
This site contains a collection of activities to teach students how to identify and express their feelings.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Future Possible Selves
In this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Ethics of Drug Induced Happiness
This is a six-question quiz on the ethics of drug-induced happiness based on the passage "The Ethics of Drug-Induced Happiness."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Do I Deal With Frustration in a Positive Way?
Working through our frustration can help us grow our brains and it's also perfectly normal to get frustrated! This article explains four suggested steps for dealing with frustration.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transform My Mistakes and Grow!
To come up with a plan on how to transform our mistakes into opportunities to grow our brains, this article explains three categories of mistakes and how you can overcome them.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Final Student Activity
The Growth Mindset Activities are designed to help your students build growth mindsets and develop learning strategies to start the school year strong. This is the final activity to help you remember what you learned and help your...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exercising My Brain
This article gives some examples of how your brain grows when you learn new things.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Harmful Too
This article explains three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mistakes Can Be Good if We Learn From Them!
Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process, and how we react to them can be either harmful or helpful. Listen as kids discuss their experiences with mistakes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Printable Thankful Time Notes
These notes are a great way to show thanks and appreciation for the special people in your students' lives.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sandy Hook Promise: Start With Hello: Educator Guides
Start With Hello asks students, educators, parents, and other community leaders who interact with children to take steps in class, the lunchroom and/or on the bus to be inclusive and connected. This easy-to-use guide is designed to...
PBS
Pbs.org: Education: 7 Ways Teachers & School Leaders Can Support Students in a (Post) Pandemic Year
The Multiple Pandemics and the Impact on Emotional Health: As students return to school, remediating learning loss is a high priority for school leaders and teachers. While some educators may feel better equipped to address the learning...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Learn: Mistakes Are Opportunities
This article covers three common ways we allow mistakes to hurt our learning process.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reflect: Mistakes Are Opportunities
This article describes three types of mistakes and some strategies for transforming them into opportunities to grow your brain. Reflection questions are included.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Appreciating Yourself
Learn how to teach children to appreciate themselves through activities, writing prompts, and discussion questions about self worth.
Other
Trauma Information Pages: Disaster Mental Health
This resource lists common short-term and long-term emotional responses that people may display after a disaster (losing a loved one, losing a home, etc.). Also lists emotions that may be displayed by children.
ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: Talking to Your Family
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses the pros and cons of talking to family members about your problems.
ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: Express Yourself
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has suggestions for how to relieve tension and express yourself through activities such as art, writing, and sports.