School Counseling Fifth Grade Curriculum Lesson Plan Bundle

Do you want to make your classroom counseling time with fifth graders meaningful and purposeful? This bundle delivers 23 classroom guidance lessons and school counseling activities focusing on digital citizenship, study skills, bullying prevention, career exploration, and more! Many of the lessons can also be used with third grade and fourth grade, in addition to fifth grade.

You'll have instant access to 734 pages of lessons, printables, activities, no prep digital lessons, scenario task cards, writing prompts, and more!

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Digital Citizenship | Grades 4-6

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.

Career Exploration | Grades 3-6

Ignite career exploration in your third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 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

Career Exploration Activity Task Card Scoot | Grades 4-6

Students in grades 4-6 will respond to 30 “This or that?” Career Exploration prompts describing their ideal work environment in this engaging, movement-based classroom scoot activity. Scatter 30 cards around the room and give each student a response grid. Students will read each prompt and circle their preference for a work environment.

This Career Interests scoot activity pairs nicely as a companion activity with a career exploration lesson or a career-themed book. It can also be used as a stand-alone activity, perfect for a Career Day event!

Size of the Problem Winter Escape Room | Grades 3-5

Ignite your third, fourth, and fifth graders' understanding of the size of the problem and support their problem solving skills with an engaging winter escape room collaborative learning activity, "Escape the Avalanche," during your classroom counseling lessons.

Start with a mini lesson about size of the problem and introduce strategies for solving small problems. Build excitement by reading the opening challenge and instructions in a letter about the impending snow from a meteorologist.

Your students will work collaboratively in four groups to solve four quests to escape the avalanche while learning to discern the size of a problem and apply problem-solving skills and coping strategies. At each quest, students will unlock code words and earn a tile representing the tool needed to escape that quest.

• Quest 1: Flurry or Blizzard? Sorting puzzle
• Quest 2: Dicey Ice
• Quest 3: Large Problems
• Quest 4: Hot Cocoa Breathing

Together, they'll glue the tile to their challenge map as they rush to escape the avalanche. Printables prizes for all finishers include bookmarks and pencil toppers! Close the lesson by reading a finisher script from the meteorologist.

Three bonus extension activities are included for early finishers or follow-up activities. Choose from both digital and printable versions of the escape room!

Gratitude Lesson & Journal | Grades 3-6

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

Empathy School Counseling & SEL Digital Lesson | Grades 3-6

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.

Empathy Lesson

• 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

Peer Pressure & Healthy Choices Lesson | Grades 4-5

Help your 4th and 5th grade students recognize peer pressure and unhealthy behaviors, and promote making healthy choices with this engaging classroom counseling lesson packed with movement breaks, group discussions, collaborative learning, activities, and printable prizes! Use in October around Halloween to promote healthy choices.

Reputation & Character Traits Lesson | Grades 4-6

Do your fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students struggle with social maturity, self discipline, and self control? Inspire them to develop a positive reputation, discover desirable character traits, and consider their digital footprint as they work collaboratively with peers during a classroom counseling lesson. The PDF includes a detailed lesson plan with thoughtful questions for discussion, instructions for up to 6 activities, and exit slips for assessment.

Implement in:

• Large group classroom counseling lessons
• Small group counseling sessions
• Centers

Students will work collaboratively in up to 6 activities as they:

• consider the reputations of book characters
• consider what factors contribute to positive and negative reputations
• sort character traits into positive/negative or friendly/unfriendly
• play a game similar to a cake walk, responding to scenario task cards
• move around the room, responding to scenarios about online activity

Tattling vs Reporting Classroom Scoot Task Card Activity | Grades 3-5

Tattling vs reporting/tattling vs telling classroom scoot has elementary students discerning whether each of 30 different situation prompts describe something that would be a tattle or something to report in this engaging, movement-based classroom activity. Scatter 30 task cards around the room and give each student an answer grid. Students will read each task card and circle whether it sounds like a "tattle" or a "report."

Summer Safety Personal Safety Lesson | Grades 2-5

Prepare your second, third, fourth, and fifth grade students for fun and safe summer activities with this digital summer safety awareness lesson for Google Slides™ and PowerPoint. Topics include hiking, camping, swimming, biking, stranger safety, fire safety, and treating minor injuries. It also includes printables with summer activity ideas, a packing list, and a family fire safety plan.

Students will start by creating a bar graph to represent favorite summer activities using an embedded link to an online interactive bar graph. The lesson will walk you through discussions on how to be safe while hiking, camping, swimming, biking, plus stranger safety, fire safety, and treating minor injuries. Tips include what to wear, what to bring, and how to be safe.

In and Out of My Control Fall Escape Room Lesson | Grades 3-5

Upper elementary students will discern situations that are in and out of their control during this cooperative fall activity escape room for classroom counseling and social emotional learning lessons! Students will solve a puzzle at each of 4 adventures to redeem tiles to glue onto their team's map.

Students will work cooperatively in groups or together as a class to escape the pumpkin patch by solving 4 adventures:

1. Collect hay for a wagon ride: Are these friendship situations in my control or out of my control? Sort answers onto mats and then put the puzzle together to reveal the code phrase.

2. Avoid crows in the pumpkin patch: Take turns rolling 3 dice to build everything you need for a scarecrow. After collecting each part, students will discuss things they can/cannot control, decision-making, and handling disappointment.

3. Outrun the trolls in the corn maze: Students will navigate through a corn maze puzzle by identifying situations they can/cannot control (25 situations)

4. Decode a fall-themed confidence mantra: Students will use a key of fall symbols to decode a mantra about things they can control.

Afterward, students receive printable prizes. This resources includes printable bookmarks and printable pencil toppers! Use the bonus activity at the end as time allows or in follow-up activities.

Middle School Transition How to Open a Combination Lock | Grades 4-6

Are your rising middle schoolers in 4th, 5th, or 6th grade worried about opening their lockers? Help ease their nerves about the middle school transition with this favorite classroom lesson on how to open a combination lock! Students will practice opening locks you provide and even participate in a relay race.

The lesson includes:

• Detailed 2-page lesson plan with ASCA alignment/objectives
• 2 versions of a Master List for keeping track of up to 40 combination locks so you can record combinations and which students have checked them out
• Icebreaker question
• Locker FAQs: 9 Frequently Asked Questions students ask about lockers
• Strategies and suggestions for memorizing a locker combination
• Instructions for how to open a combination lock
• Troubleshooting slide for commonly mistakes
• Relay Race instructions for a classroom game!
• Alternate game instructions, including a faster version to play in a small group or classroom setting. (Locks not included!)

Time Management Activity Executive Functioning Lesson | Grades 4-6

Do your fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students struggle with time management, organization, and executive functioning? Prepare your students who may be easily distracted or lack organization or decision-making skills for their middle school transition by showing them how to balance homework, chores, and self care after school so they can master time management skills now!

Students will practice time management and executive functioning skills by listing their extracurricular activities, homework, and chores, and then plugging them in to an after-school schedule so they can visualize their afternoons.

Middle School Transition FAQs EOY Counseling & SEL Lesson | Grades 4-6

Ease your fourth, fifth, or sixth grade students' worries and fears about the middle school transition with this lesson of frequently asked questions by rising middle schoolers during this classroom counseling and SEL guidance lesson.

Students will discover that their peers have many of the same questions about middle school as they do. You'll facilitate active, engaging discussions using the included topics before they transition to middle school, from lockers to meeting new friends, to the cafeteria!

Middle School Transition Venn Diagram Activities |Grades 5-6

Help your 5th grade students prepare for the middle school transition with this set of four Venn Diagrams comparing and contrasting elementary school to middle school, 5th grade to 6th grade, and more! Use in your middle school transition unit or individually when a student is moving away to a new school or a new student is transitioning to your school.

The Venn diagram activities are perfect for:

• Middle school transition
• EOY activity (any grade)
• Students moving away
• New students

Your students will work individually or collaboratively to compare & contrast:

• Elementary School and Middle School
• 5th grade and 6th grade
• This Year and Next Year
• Old School and New School

Middle School Transition Lesson Short Writing Prompts | Grades 5-6

Address your rising middle school students' most common worries and fears about their middle school transition with three short writing prompts to normalize fears and facilitate engaging discussions about middle school!

Study Skills Lesson This or That School Counseling Activity | Grades 3-5

Infuse your third, fourth, and fifth graders' study skills lessons with movement with this engaging "This or That?" study skills activity! They'll read 19 study habits and choose their preferred activity by acting out the movement corresponding to their choice.

Coping Skills Snowball toss Game Winter Lesson | Grades 3-5

Liven up your winter classroom counseling lessons or small group counseling sessions with an engaging snowball toss coping skills game! Your third, fourth, and fifth grade students will choose between preferred coping strategies as they play a fun, non-competitive coping skills snowball toss game! Keep your students engaged and moving as they think on their feet, but they'll need to watch out for surprises along the way during this exciting winter activity! Scenario task cards are included, and the lesson plan covers ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors school counseling standards.

Response to Bullying Scoot | Grades 4-6

Do your fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students struggle with how to respond to bullying? Equip them with anti bullying strategies with this engaging response to bullying classroom scoot activity, helping students practice 8 strategic, appropriate responses to bullying situations or even someone being mean. Use as an anti bullying activity perfect for National Bullying Prevention Month in October!

Use as a stand-alone activity or as a book companion to Trudy Ludwig's "Confessions of a Former Bully" book. I received written permission from Trudy Ludwig on 11/26/18 to create and post this resource.

Get your students up and moving as they respond to 7 scenario task cards with the 8 responses overviewed in the book, "Confessions of a Former Bully" by Trudy Ludwig. Facilitate meaningful discussions as prompted in the activity.

St. Patrick's Day Coping Skills Lesson | Grades 3-5

Your third, fourth, and fifth grade students will practice self-regulation strategies, coping skills, self-control, mindfulness, gratitude, breathing techniques, and more with this fun St. Patrick's Day-themed social emotional learning lesson and mini book craft! Skills include Shamrock Breathing, Leprechaun Counting, Rainbow Mindfulness, Pot of Gold Gratitude, Shamrock Counting, and Leprechaun Winks!

These calming strategies activities are versatile for individual counseling, classroom counseling, or group counseling.

End of Year Transition Advice Writing Prompts

Boost your students' confidence at the end of the year by encouraging them to write transition advice to the incoming class using writing prompts with "Advice for the Student Who Will Sit at this Desk Next Year."

Students in grades 3-12 will consider what they've learned and impart that wisdom to rising students with these EOY writing prompts.

Stranger Danger Personal Safety Scoot Game | Grades 3-5

Promote personal safety with your 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders with an engaging Stranger Danger personal safety classroom scoot game! Students will move around the room visiting six stations to answer follow-up questions from the companion Stranger Danger Presentation.

Perfect for:

• large group classroom lessons
• collaborative learning
• small group activity
• companion activity after the Stranger Danger Presentation
• exit slips / exit tickets to check for understanding
• centers

For use:

Create a safe environment for elementary students to practice personal safety by making safe choices in situations encountering strangers. Students will read the responses and write their answers on the included "SAFETY" handout. Use a bell or chime to signal transitions between stations.

End of Year Student Exit Interview Program Survey | Grades 4-6

Collect EOY data for your school counseling program by administering student exit interview surveys! Choose from multiple versions specific to 5th graders and the middle school transition OR your students in any grade level at the end of the year! Writing prompts include favorite privileges, what your students will and will not miss, and more! They'll also write advice to rising students transitioning up to their grade level.

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