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Social and Emotional Learning

Grades 6–9
Sparks
Identity Statements
by Rebeca Darugar, 826NYC

Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.

Informational

Students create an identity chart and write about parts of their identity most salient to them.

Grades 1–12
Sparks
Sensory Heart Mapping
by 826 National

Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.

Memoir

Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.

Grades 1–3
Sparks
What's Your Happy?
by Molly Sprayregen, 826CHI

In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students create a poem that shares the "happys" in their life.

Poetry

In this social-emotional learning writing prompt, students create a poem that shares the "happys" in their life.

Grades 1–3
Sparks
Kindness Counts
by Nicolien Buholzer, 826LA

Why does kindness count? Students consider acts of kindness that they’ve experienced and reflect on the difference that kindness makes in the world.

Informational

Why does kindness count? Students consider acts of kindness that they’ve experienced and reflect on the difference that kindness makes in the world.

Grades 5–6
Lessons
Misunderstood Monsters
by Lindsay Ringwald, 826LA

In this lesson, students will imagine a narrative in the form of a craigslist advertisement to showcase a typically scary monster as a down to earth creature.

Narrative

In this lesson, students will imagine a narrative in the form of a craigslist advertisement to showcase a typically scary monster as a down to earth creature.

Grades 1–5
Videos
What Do Feelings Sound Like?
by by Molly Sprayregen, 826CHI and Denise Ervin, 826michigan

Students learn how to pair sound words (onomatopoeia) with feelings to create vivid, specific descriptions of different emotions.

Poetry

Students learn how to pair sound words (onomatopoeia) with feelings to create vivid, specific descriptions of different emotions.