4th - 7th Grade Social Emotional Learning Common Core Educational Resources

Use this reflective writing worksheet to encourage a growth mindset in students and strengthen important social emotional skills!

Children build their understanding of synonyms in this SEL-meets-vocabulary worksheet.

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Encourage students to explore the notion of identity with this reflective writing and drawing prompt!

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Help students practice seeing and understanding through others' eyes by participating in scenarios that illustrate different points of view. Students will work in groups to understand and discuss the differing perspectives that arise in difficult situatio

Use the Care for the Earth worksheet to have students practice conservation for a week, then reflect on how small changes can create a big impact on the planet.

Children will select from a word bank of descriptive emotion words to write about their feelings, then use them to create a unique word search puzzle.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

Help your child write a children’s book about the power of living with integrity! Students will draft a short story about someone who embodies integrity and how their actions impacted those around them, then turn it into a children's book.

Use the Teaching Others to STOP worksheet to introduce students to the STOP mindfulness method, then have them creatively teach STOP to someone else.

Children will go on a nature walk and observe their surroundings, then write a letter to nature, in this two-page mindfulness worksheet.

Foster self-awareness, gratitude, and stress-management skills with this social emotional worksheet. This three-page activity prompts children to reflect on the word "beauty" and compile a list of things they are grateful for in their life.

Use the Mentors: Mindfulness of Anger worksheet to have students teach others how mindfulness can help them cope with anger.

Get kids in the holiday spirit by practicing 30 Days of Gratitude! This activity is perfect for November, but can also be done year-round.

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

Use this worksheet to have students write a love letter to the Earth, expressing their love and gratitude for our giving planet.

Children will create their own “best self” journal to log moments where they have been at their best. They are guided to find inspiring quotes and images, decorate their journal, and use the provided prompts to get them started on their journaling.

This social emotional worksheet helps students develop an understanding of the word "integrity." Students will reflect on what it means to be honest with ourselves and with others by keeping promises and making healthy choices.

Use the Food Conservation Poster worksheet to get students to create a poster including statistics about food waste and the importance of food conservation.

Use this STOP Rap worksheet to introduce students to the STOP method of mindfulness, then to have them create a rap or poem about the method's benefits.

Use this chart to categorize your chosen superhero’s real and supernatural strengths.

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Students will cut out all of the strengths that connect with them and their abilities and write in additional strengths in the blank chain links. Then, they'll cut out the strips and use tape or glue to make a unique chain of strengths all their own!

Use the My Growth worksheet to have students reflect on their growth over the past year, considering how mindfulness has supported their development.

Use the Interconnections Poem worksheet for students to write a poem or create a video about our interconnections with nature and each other.

Help students tune into their emotions by writing their own haiku poem. First, kids will learn a bit about haikus and read a sample. Then, they'll brainstorm a list of words related to emotions before drafting their own emotions haiku.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, fourth- and fifth-grade students will brainstorm their strengths and talents to create a chain using pieces of paper, highlighting their gifts on each link of the chain.