School Counseling Curriculum Digital SEL Lesson Bundle 3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade

Looking for no prep, meaningful classroom counseling lessons? Your planning is done for you with this school counseling digital curriculum bundle of FIVE lessons! Engage your your third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students as they practice empathy, mindfulness, gratitude, career exploration, and digital citizenship!

The digital activities are perfect for large group classroom lessons, online and virtual learning, 1:1 devices using Google Slides™, individual counseling sessions, and small group counseling sessions.

Lessons included:

• Empathy
• Mindfulness
• Gratitude
• Career Exploration
• Digital Citizenship

Empathy School Counseling & SEL Digital Lesson

Teach your upper elementary students how to have empathy for others with this no-prep digital social emotional learning empathy lesson for classroom counseling lessons. They'll practice recognizing facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice as they discover how to show empathy to others.

Grades 3-6

• What is empathy?
• How to guess how others are feeling (facial expressions, body language, and tone)
• Why empathy? How empathy can help others
• Showing empathy for others around us
• Acting on empathy
• Recognizing situations when we can have empathy
• Offering helpful words to others

Mindfulness Digital Lesson with Digital & Printable Journal

Upper elementary and middle school students will practice mindfulness activities with a camping-themed digital mindfulness lesson and digital/printable mindfulness journal! Use in large group classroom counseling lessons, on 1:1 devices, or online/virtual learning.

Mindfulness activities include:

• Drawing
• Coloring
• Solving puzzles (6 mandalas to color, 3 mazes)
• Stretching (3 animal poses)
• Time in nature (guided nature walk sheets)
• Star Breathing
• Counting
• Walking
• Thinking positively (positive affirmations)
• Journaling

The lesson includes:

• What mindfulness means
• When we can use mindfulness
• When will you use mindfulness?
• How we can practice mindfulness
• Mindful moments situations (8 slides)
• Guided mindfulness walks (handouts, 3 versions)
• Mindful activities to try (18 pages)
• Mindfulness journal (7 pages with short writing prompts and editable text boxes)
• Printable pages are also included so students can color the mandalas, write on the Mindful Walk pages, and complete the mazes.

Grades 3-7

Gratitude Lesson & Journal with Digital & Printable SEL Gratitude Activities

Spark the practice of gratitude in your 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students with this digital social emotional learning gratitude lesson and gratitude journal available in a no-prep digital version or a printable PDF version. 

Your upper elementary and middle school students will practice expressing gratitude and thankfulness and explore gratitude through their five senses. Extend their learning with easy-to-use companion gratitude activities and thank you note printables included in the resource.

Uses:

• Large group school counseling & SEL lessons
• Small group counseling activities
• Use seasonally in November around Thanksgiving

The Google Slides™ lesson includes:

• What is gratitude?
• How can having gratitude help us?
• Gratitude Grove - exploring gratitude through our five senses 
• What are you grateful for?
• Categories of gratitude
• Expressing Gratitude
• Gratitude for our skills and abilities
• Colorful gratitude journal (Google Slides™ version)
• A year of gratitude

PRINTABLE GRATITUDE JOURNAL

The 41-page PDF Gratitude Journal is the perfect companion to print (not-editable). It includes similar activities (and more!) in a printer-friendly black and white version.

The journal includes:

• What is gratitude?
• How can having gratitude help us?
• Gratitude Grove - exploring gratitude through our five senses
• What are you grateful for?
• Categories of gratitude
• Expressing Gratitude
• Gratitude for our skills and abilities
• Space to express gratitude for: family, friends, home, school, nature, music, hobbies, books, animals, sports, and other.
• Ways to express gratitude
• Gratitude for our skills and abilities
• Journaling pages
• Gratitude Bubbles
• Drawing pages
• Short writing prompts
• Gratitude Notes (to deliver!)
• Gratitude Letter template
• Journaling pages
• A year of gratitude

Grades 3-6

Career Exploration Digital Lesson

Ignite career exploration in your 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students with an easy-to-use, no prep career exploration digital PowerPoint presentation and lesson for Google Slides™ during your classroom guidance class. Use as a stand-alone lesson or in conjunction with a schoolwide Career Day event to amplify career planning activities in your elementary school counseling program.

Your upper elementary students will:

• deepen their understanding of a job versus a career
• sort true and false career statements
• consider their work environment preferences
• recognize community helpers
• brainstorm different careers within one building
• identify talents, interests, and hobbies
• explore how to research fields of interest
• name a career for each letter of the alphabet

The career lesson is designed for:

• large group classroom guidance lessons with 1:1 devices
• online & virtual learning
• homeschool learning

Enhance your students' career exploration with these topics:

• Career vs. Job
• Career & Job Venn Diagram
• Career Questions - True or False?
• How do I want to spend my days?
• Work environment preferences (3 pages, sorting statements)
• Community Helpers
• Community Helpers - Uniforms
• Community Helpers - Tools
• Community Helpers - Vehicles (3 slides)
• Community Helpers - Locations
• Many jobs in one place
• My Interests
• My Talents
• My Hobbies
• Researching Careers: How can I learn more about careers?
• How do I want to help the world? Short prompt
• Alphabet challenge

Grades 3-6

Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, & Cyberbullying Prevention Digital Lesson

Help students learn digital citizenship, online safety, and internet safety while recognizing cyberbullying and learning online bullying prevention with this no prep digital lesson for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students. Use during classroom counseling lessons in PowerPoint and Google Slides™ to teach cyber safety for kids.

This lesson is intended for whole-group lessons projected onto a screen, in-person instruction with 1:1 devices, or online learning with you upper elementary and middle school students.

LESSON TOPICS:

• What is Digital Citizenship?
• Benefits of technology (short prompt)
• What is cyberbullying?
• Cyberbullying sort activity (Answers hidden under response boxes)
• Respecting digital property: Proper citation, piracy, plagiarism
• Piracy or Plagiarism recognition slides
• Practicing digital safety: Identity theft, hacking, computer virus, spam, threats online, trolling behavior
• Internet safety and online safety: digital footprints, strong passwords (sort activity)
• Social media
• Social media use survey (Yes or No questions)
• Review: Safety tips

Grades 4-6

**A note on editable Google Slides™**

You'll need to open this resource in edit mode (not present mode), and you can type your students’ responses into those boxes (they are editable text boxes, so you use it in edit mode) and drag and drop shapes in that mode. Another great option is to download Full Screen Interactive Google Slides Extension App for Chrome. Enjoy!

Educators like you are saying:

"I am always happy when I find new middle school resources to help keep the students engaged. These digital resources are perfect for each of my lessons with the middle schoolers!" - Jennifer P. 

"Loved using this as part of my SEL and morning work; So great and the students were engaged." - Kelli R. 

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