Are you looking for unique ways to teach middle and high school students important social emotional learning lessons like what makes a good friend? Or, how possessing traits such as empathy or cooperation can change their social or vocational success? Check out my newest series of SEL stories: choose your outcomes. This series offers captivating empathy activities, cooperation activities and teaches the valuable skill of how to be a good friend.
Boom Learning Decks for SEL!
What makes the format unique? Students are able to choose the outcomes and see how they play out right within the deck. The underpinning of the activities is the message that we have the power to change our days by changing how we act, and more importantly, react in social situations. By comparing a positive outcome (where traits such as empathy and cooperation are used) and a negative outcome, (where these traits aren’t valued) students can compare how and why the outcomes were so dramatically different.
These products are all BOOM cards. Are you new to BOOM cards? Or, maybe you haven’t used them for social skills instruction before? This blog post on Boom cards for social skills might be helpful.
Social Emotional Learning Decks
Each deck offers this format:
- a beginning to a social emotional learning conflict featuring older students,
- an opportunity for students to choose an outcome to the conflict in the story,
- empathy activities, cooperation activities and friendship activities, (depending upon which deck you are using),
- reflection on the actions that lead to different outcomes, and
- opportunities for middle and high school students to create their own outcomes to the conflict within a structured social emotional learning activities format.
Build Your own Outcomes!
Within this last step, you can guide them to create specific outcomes. For example, in the “what makes a good friend?” deck, have students create an outcome they would expect from their friends. Or, have them think of a peer and design the outcome around how they think this peer would react. Endless possibilities within these social emotional learning activities because there are endless ways to solve problems!
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