Optimism - Character Education & Social Emotional Learning

Description

Use this all-in-one SEL & Character Education curriculum to teach your students how to be optimistic and use positive-thinking. Build your positive classroom community with these print-and-go activities.

This Character Education resource includes:

✅9 engaging activities

✅Bulletin board posters

✅Printable & PPT & google slide options

✅Writing prompts

✅Rewards tags

✅Parent letter

✅Recommended Read Alouds

✅Morning Announcements

✅Bookmarks

✅Pre & Post Survey

✅Certificate

& so much more!

☺️Think no more about how you will teach your students about optimism! Every single thing you need to transform your classroom can be found within this one resource. Use hands-on worksheets, partner or small group activities, and fun games to help students understand how to show optimism to others and themselves. This resource also provides easy-to-understand writing prompts and opportunities for students to self-reflect as they learn.

✨9 Included Activities:

1. Ways to show Optimism: Ways to show optimism at school, home, and in your community with a sorting activity (cut and paste)
2. People Who show Optimism: Students will learn how to show optimistic behavior as a student, leader, in a career, and digitally.
3. Optimistic or Not?: Sorting activity determining if actions were optimistic or not.
4. Cause and Effect: Students will determine the effect that a given decision will have.
5. Road to Optimism: Students will choose the most optimistic solution to a problem.
6. An Optimistic World: Students learn the difference between optimism and pessimism, change negative-talk to positive-talk, positive affirmations, practice gratitude, and practice using positive thinking.
7. Self-reflection: Students will reflect on how they will be more optimistic in their life.
8. Think & Discuss (Task Cards): 40 cards with questions about being optimistic.
9. What Would You Do? (Situation Cards): 40 cards with given situations and asking students to decide what the optimistic thing to do is

▶️Where can I find the google classroom link?

Google slides link and instructions are on the 3rd to last 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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