Emotional Regulation - Activities and Resources for the Secondary Classroom

Description

Help your middle school students learn how to recognize, understand, and manage their emotions with this ready-to-use SEL lesson! This resource helps students build awareness of their emotional signals and practice healthy coping strategies for everyday stress, frustration, and anger.

💡 What’s Included:

• PowerPoint Presentation introducing emotional regulation in an engaging, student-friendly way.
• Emotions Chart Poster
• Physical and Mental Emotional Signals activity
• Writing Prompts
• Regulated vs Dysregulated activity.
• Coping Skills Poster.
• Unhealthy vs Healthy Tools
• Coping Toolbox worksheet
• Emotional Regulation Scenario Practice:

-School

-Peer

-Home

-Social

• Stoplight Model of Emotions (Red–Yellow–Green) visual to teach emotional awareness, poster, activity, and reflection.
• Triggers and Choices activity.
• Read & Respond
• True or False Practice.
• Sketch Notes (perfect for students to take notes on the PowerPoint)
• Task Cards with response paper.
• Entrance and Exit Ticket Prompts
• Black and White version included for easy printing.

🧩 Skills Students Will Learn:

• Recognize emotional triggers and warning signs
• Identify body (physical) and mental (thought) signals
• Use healthy coping tools to calm down and stay in control
• Practice responding instead of reacting
• Build self-awareness and emotional maturity

🌈 Why You’ll Love It:

This lesson makes teaching emotional regulation easy, interactive, and meaningful. With ready-to-go visuals, hands-on activities, and reflection prompts, students not only learn what emotional regulation is—but how to actually use it in real life.

▶️Where can I find the google classroom link?

Google slides link and instructions are on the 2nd page of the PDF.

▶️What formats are included?

• Pdf version to print out. (color and black & white versions)
• Powerpoint presentation.
• Google Slides version.

▶️What mode should I use this in google slides?

This product is meant to be used in "edit" mode (not "presentation" mode). Edit mode is the only mode that allows drag & drop and writing in text boxes.

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✨More Social-Emotional Learning Activities✨

• SEL in a Snap: Identifying Emotions
• SEL in a Snap: Stress Management
• Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Bundle
• Character Education BUNDLE Vol. 1
• Character Education: Responsibility
• Character Education: Kindness
• Character Education: Cooperation

⭐Recommended Resources⭐

• Passport to Executive Functioning
• My Emotions Monsters
• Small Group Counseling Curriculum BUNDLE
• Social Emotional Learning Curriculum BUNDLE

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This is a downloadable, printable (PDF) workbook. You will not receive anything in the mail.

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