Social Emotional Learning Activities | TEAMology
Building My Unique House
Students explore their personal strengths, interests, goals, and qualities by completing a self-reflection worksheet and creating a “unique house” that represents who they are. The activity helps build self-awareness, confidence, and leadership skills while celebrating the differences that make each student special.
Grounding Exercise
Students learn and practice the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique, a coping strategy that helps them focus on the present moment during times of stress, worry, or frustration. By identifying things they can see, feel, hear, smell, and taste, students develop resilience and learn a practical tool for managing emotions.
Heart of the Handy Helper
Students work together to brainstorm ways they can help classmates, teachers, their school, and their community. After discussing ideas, each student chooses one helpful action, writes it on a heart-shaped cutout, and commits to being a “Handy Helper.” This activity promotes kindness, teamwork, responsibility, and community involvement.
Marshmallow Team Challenge
Students work in small teams to design and build the tallest or most creative structure using marshmallows and toothpicks. Through planning, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration, students learn the importance of teamwork while tackling a fun hands-on engineering challenge.
Positive Change for Our School
Students reflect on changes they can make to improve their school environment for themselves and others. Through writing or drawing, they share ideas for making positive changes and discuss how teamwork and personal responsibility can help create a safer, more supportive school community.
Rolling Respect
Students explore the meaning of respect and its connection to kindness, acceptance, and anti-bullying. Using a dice game, they respond to prompts about showing respect to themselves, family members, peers, neighbors, and others, encouraging reflection on how respectful actions strengthen relationships and school culture.
Coloring and Activity Book
This activity book introduces students to TEAMology’s six social-emotional learning foundations: problem solving, acceptance, positive change, helping others, resilience, and leadership. Through coloring pages, puzzles, mazes, connect-the-dot activities, career exploration exercises, and short stories featuring TEAMology characters, students build social-emotional skills while learning how these skills connect to everyday life and future careers. The activities encourage self-reflection, empathy, teamwork, resilience, and positive decision-making in a fun and engaging format
About
Six TEAMology social-emotional activities from their SEL curriculum, plus a coloring and activity book to use with students in grades PreK-5th grade.
This collection of TEAMology activities helps students develop key social-emotional skills including leadership, resilience, problem-solving, respect, acceptance, helping others, and positive decision-making. Through interactive discussions, teamwork challenges, creative projects, self-reflection exercises, and hands-on activities, students build the skills needed to strengthen relationships, navigate challenges, contribute to their school community, and support their overall social and emotional well-being
Credits: WQED
Standards
PreK-K
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Recognize and label basic feelings.
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Demonstrate awareness of self and one’s own preferences.
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Distinguish between situations that elicit positive or negative feelings.
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Express a want and the means to achieve it.
- B. Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Interact in pro-social ways (e.g., reciprocal conversation, turn taking, sharing) with peers and adults.
- B. Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Engage in reciprocal communication with peers and adults.
- B. Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Demonstrate respect for the uniqueness of others.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Recognize and respond to the feelings of others.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Recognize that conflict occurs and identify ways to respond.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Acknowledge the consequences of choices.
Grades 1-5
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Identify behavioral expressions of feelings within a context.
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Identify one’s own strengths, needs, and preferences.
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Select coping skill strategies in response to adverse situations (e.g., positive self-talk, talking to others, taking a break, taking care of oneself, avoiding negative self-talk).
- A. Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Distinguish among and set short term, mid-range, and long-term goals.
- B. Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Explain ways to establish relationships that are positive and supportive of others.
- B. Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Demonstrate respect for the uniqueness of others.
- B. Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Select and utilize expressive communication strategies with an understanding of its effect on others.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Identify multiple ways to solve conflicts and practice solving problems.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Identify conflict resolution skills to deescalate, diffuse, and resolve differences.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Identify consequences of a decision to oneself and others prior to action.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Distinguish among various social contexts and how they impact personal feelings.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Respond to others given a sense of the others’ point of view.
- C. Social Problem Solving: Identify possible behaviors and anticipate reactions in response to a specific social context.
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