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8 Activities to Foster Gratitude with Children & Youth
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Gratitude is linked with many physical, social an…
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Gratitude is linked with many physical, social and emotional benefits and is an important skill to foster with children and youth. When choosing an action to do so, however, research indicates that if the activity is forced or feels like homework it isn’t a good match. The outcome isn’t authentic and the results fall short of the potential benefits that experiencing gratitude offers. The most effective gratitude activities are ones that engage children’s interests and strengths.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Arts Education
- English Language Arts
- Health and PE
- Keywords
- Core Compentencies
- Social Emotional Learning
- Mindfulness
- Friendship
- Kindness
- Learning Standards
- Describe and assess strategies for promoting mental well-being, for self and others.
- Duration
- 20 - 60 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 9, 2017
3 recommendations
602 downloads
Create a Feelings Book
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- Lesson plan/Unit plan
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- K
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- For children to strengthen their ability to manag…
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- K
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- For children to strengthen their ability to manage their behaviour when they are experiencing strong feelings, an essential skill is to identify their feelings. It is never too early to talk to children about feelings, build their feeling vocabulary and to help them see the link between feelings and behaviour. Linking these together demonstrates how our feelings can affect the choices we make. It can also improve children’s emotional-management.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Arts Education
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Core Competencies
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- self-regulation
- Learning Standards
- Students will expand their feeling vocabulary and explore the link between feelings and behaviour.
- Duration
- 30-45 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 1, 2017
4 recommendations
348 downloads
Create Group Safety
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Group agreements are co-created guidelines that h…
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Group agreements are co-created guidelines that help participants feel comfortable with each other and set an atmosphere of safety and respect. Many teachers and facilitators skip this step when working with groups of youth and miss a powerful piece of prevention that can help make a group experience successful. The following lesson plan from the Inner Resilience Program is a process to create a set of group agreements. along with a physical symbol that can serve as a group reminder.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Arts Education
- Cross-Curricular
- Teaching Strategies
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Core Competencies
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Social Contract
- Learning Standards
- Students will reflect on and express opinions about factors that contribute to a safe and respectful group environment. Students will work as a team to co-create group agreements.
- Duration
- 30-60 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 4, 2017
0 recommendations
538 downloads
Examining Homophobia in Sports
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- CASJ - 5 years ago
- Description
- This resource was created by CASJ's LGBTQ action …
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- CASJ - 5 years ago
- Description
- This resource was created by CASJ's LGBTQ action group. The discussion, drama, and critical thinking activities in this guide are geared towards all students wishing to examine the role of how gender stereotypes are reinforced through sports in school. For more resources on this topic, copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://bctf.ca/socialjustice.aspx?id=6106
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- Drama
- Cross-Curricular
- Social Justice
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- LGBTQ
- Gender Stereotyping
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Oct 9, 2015
3 recommendations
382 downloads
Extend Emotional Literacy
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- This lesson plan is an adaptation from the Yale U…
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- This lesson plan is an adaptation from the Yale University's RULER feeling words curriculum co-created by Dr. Marc Brackett. Preliminary research indicates that when lessons that focus on emotional awareness is integrated with academic curriculum, both academic and emotional competence improves. The lesson connects the exploration of emotions with personal experience, current or historical events, family/community associations and language arts.
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- Social Justice
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Core Competencies
- conflict management
- self-regulation
- empathy
- Learning Standards
- Students will be able to connect emotions with personal experience, current or historical events, family/community associations, and language arts.
- Duration
- 60-90 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 1, 2017
3 recommendations
323 downloads
Getting Along with Lily-Jean
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- Classroom printable
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- K
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- How can you tell if others are getting along? How…
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- Activity
- Classroom printable
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- K
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- How can you tell if others are getting along? How can you figure out what might be causing conflict? In this lesson plan, students pay attention to body language, actions, words and behaviours to help determine if the characters in a story are getting along. Playing the role of “relationship detectives,” builds social and emotional awareness.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Core Competencies
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Conflict Resolution
- Kindness
- Learning Standards
- Students will be able to discuss what “getting along with others” looks, feels and sounds like, and recognize and describe situations when characters get along well with others, and contrast situations when they don’t.
- Duration
- 20 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 3, 2017
6 recommendations
215 downloads
How Are You Peeling?
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- Lesson plan/Unit plan
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Introduce children, ages 3-5, to different types …
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- K
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Introduce children, ages 3-5, to different types of feelings using the emotive faces of vegetables and fruits with moods. Fun (and yummy) personification provides a starting point for talking about feelings with children and encourages them to think about their own feelings. Parents and early childhood educators can read the book How are You Peeling? by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers.
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- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- empathy
- emotions
- Core Competencies
- Learning Standards
- Children will recognize and name different feelings, identify their own feelings and practice expressing them.
- Duration
- 15-20 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 1, 2017
2 recommendations
Matthew Morin: Overcoming Adversity
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
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- With heartfelt honesty, Matthew Morin shares his …
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
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- With heartfelt honesty, Matthew Morin shares his story of overcoming adversity to get in touch with his dream, his inner flame and his resources. Supported by relationships and experiences at school, Matthew’s story of emotional growth is also a story about taking on a physical challenge in a safe environment - in order to learn that “we are stronger than we think we are.”
- Subject
- Cross-Curricular
- Leadership
- English Language Arts
- Health and PE
- Keywords
- Core Competencies
- Social Emotional Learning
- Resilience
- Confidence
- Learning Standards
- Use the video and questions below as a starting point to engage students in reflection and dialogue.
- Duration
- 45-60min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 9, 2017
3 recommendations
258 downloads
Pillow Full of Feelings
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- Lesson plan/Unit plan
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Sad, scared, surprised, angry, happy, sleepy. Hel…
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- Activity
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Sad, scared, surprised, angry, happy, sleepy. Helping children name an emotion strengthens their ability to manage their own behaviour when they are experiencing strong feelings. In addition, this skill bolsters their ability to be attentive to other people’s emotions, show concern, be more helpful and develop healthy relationships.
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- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Emotions
- Self-Regulation
- Core Competencies
- Learning Standards
- Children, parents and caregivers will: • Create a tool which can be used to identify and talk about emotions • Learn new games to strengthening Heart-Mind well-being • Increase emotion words used in conversation and in play
- Duration
- 15-20 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 1, 2017
3 recommendations
257 downloads
Puppets Deal with Frustration
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- This activity helps young children learn how to i…
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- This activity helps young children learn how to identify the feelings associated with not being able to have something they want. And, the children will review the possible choices of how to deal with wanting something that is not theirs.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Arts Education
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Conflict Resolution
- Self-Regulation
- Core Competencies
- Learning Standards
- Children will identify the feelings associated with not being able to have something they want and learn the steps to review the possible choices of how to deal with wanting something that is not theirs.
- Duration
- 15-30min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 1, 2017
2 recommendations
Skits to Solve School Problems in Peaceful Ways
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
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- Children love performing and watching themselves …
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Children love performing and watching themselves on film. This lesson uses scenario planning, acting, filming and analyzing to practice solving problems peacefully in ways that are relevant and personalized for students. It can be adapted to any age level simply by adjusting the depth of dialogue and complexity of conflict situations. The process helps students develop empathy by providing them with an opportunity to think and apply their knowledge and experience to conflict and problem solving skits. Research shows that empathy is positively linked to peaceful conflict resolution and both predicts successful conflict management as well as reduces the likelihood of getting involved in conflict in the first place.
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- Arts Education
- Drama
- English Language Arts
- Health and PE
- Keywords
- Core Competencies
- Social Emotional Learning
- Mindfulness
- Empathy
- Compassion
- URLs
- http://heartmindonline.org/resources/lesson-plan-skits-to-solve-school-problems-in-peaceful-ways
- Learning Standards
- Students will be able to: identify what getting along looks, sounds and feels like, identify peaceful choices in common school/classroom problems, practice working through "school or classroom conflicts" faced at school, reflect on the cause of the "problem" or conflict, the feelings that exist during conflict and the potential actions to solve them peacefully.
- Duration
- 45 - 60 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 9, 2017
3 recommendations
278 downloads
Teaching Kindness with Chrysanthemum
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Early elementary students experience a tactile an…
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Early elementary students experience a tactile and visual lesson about how unkind words can “wrinkle” your heart. The lesson develops emotional intelligence by making the connection between words, actions and feelings. This lesson, when introduced at the beginning of the year, allows educators to refer back to the concept of a wrinkled heart during times when students are having difficulty getting along or being kind.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Arts Education
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Conflict Resolution
- Self-Regulation
- Core Competencies
- Learning Standards
- Children will be able to: demonstrate kindness, demonstrate an ability to treat others respectfully, generate strategies for problem solving.
- Duration
- 20-30 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 3, 2017
1 recommendation
14 downloads
T'was the night d'avant Noël
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- Rome Lavrencic - 6 years ago
- Description
- This fun-filled activity allows students to put o…
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- Rome Lavrencic - 6 years ago
- Description
- This fun-filled activity allows students to put on a simple production of "T'was the night before Christmas" in both French and English. In order to provide maximum participation, a teacher may wish to divide the lines of this classic poem so that each student recites 2 or 3 lines at a time. Each student would bring props, costumes and any set designs they wish. Be sure to allow students to take ownership of all aspects of the production (casting roles, direction, costumes, speech coaches, props manager, etc.). In the end, be sure to invite other classes to come watch this 5 minute performance. It's sure to put a jolly smile on students' faces.
- Subject
- Arts Education
- Drama
- Languages
- French
- Keywords
- BCATML
- Français
- FSL
- Core French
- Christmas
- Saynette
- Learning Standards
- This activity meets many of the Prescribed Learning Outcomes for Core French relating to understanding cultural influences, spoken production, reading comprehension, and expressing acquired information in oral and visual forms.
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- Dec 6, 2014
3 recommendations
309 downloads
The Way I Feel
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- This story time and the follow-up activities are …
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- Activity
- Lesson plan/Unit plan
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- K
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- This story time and the follow-up activities are designed to help preschool children learn to recognize and name different feelings. Children will also learn to identify their own feelings and express them. Recognizing feelings is an important skill. It is the first step towards other skills like getting along with others, demonstrating kindness towards others and learning how to respond to difficult feelings. This activity can be done at school or at home.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Core Competencies
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Empathy
- Kindness
- Emotional Awareness
- Learning Standards
- Children will learn to identify their feelings and express them.
- Duration
- 15-20 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 4, 2017
3 recommendations
309 downloads
What is Gratitude?
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Benefits of gratitude for children include increa…
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- Activity
- Lesson plan/Unit plan
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- 4
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Benefits of gratitude for children include increased feelings of well-being and reduced feelings of depression and disconnection. Studies have documented that positive relationships and even improved school satisfaction can result from introducing the practice of gratitude in schools. In this lesson, students will think critically, make meaningful personal connections and engage with others to share and develop ideas.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- English Language Arts
- Keywords
- Social Emotional Learning
- Heart-Mind Well-Being
- Empathy
- Core Competencies
- Learning Standards
- Students will think critically, make meaningful, personal connections and engage with others to share and develop ideas about gratitude.
- Duration
- 30-60 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 1, 2017
2 recommendations
Youth Circles: Check-ins & Debriefs
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Circle Sharing can encourage students to feel sec…
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- Activity
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- Heart Mind Online - 3 years ago
- Description
- Circle Sharing can encourage students to feel secure and calm. It encourages healthy relationships amongst youth in their classrooms and schools that promotes “integration”. According to author and psychiatrist Dan Seigel when we integrate within relationships, we honour differences between ourselves and others, This promotes linkages through compassionate understanding and communication. Integration creates harmony.
- Subject
- Revised Curriculum
- Cross-Curricular
- Leadership
- English Language Arts
- Health and PE
- Keywords
- Core Compentencies
- Social Emotional Learning
- Empathy
- Compassion
- Self-Regulation
- Conflict Resolution
- Learning Standards
- Create strategies for promoting the health and well-being of the school and community.
- Duration
- 10-30 min
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- May 9, 2017
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