Children build social, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they work in small groups to create open-ended constructions using a variety of materials — without relying on tape or glue.

Students will each receive a cup of three different-colored Skittles and answer reflection questions linked to each color, sharing their responses with the group in a circle. This activity helps students build relationships and practice using their voice in a group discussion.

Using Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches as a starting point, students explore what it feels like to be left out, how groups create “in” and “out” categories, and how to build fairer practices in their own community.

Students will be able to identify the people in their lives they can go to for help.

Students will listen to a story while moving through a series of yoga poses, using breath and movement to practice grounding and self-control. A brief debrief follows where students reflect on how focusing on their breath affects their thoughts and feelings.

Unity Day is a national day when students, teachers, and families wear orange to show they support bullying prevention. In this activity, students explore what unity means and collaborate in pairs on posters that show how working together can help stop bullying. Posters are then hung throughout the school.

Students will learn what a self-portrait is and create their own — building self-confidence by giving voice to who they are and what they like about themselves.

In this lesson, students explore the ways people with a critical health condition or disease might feel, as well as ways they can support and show compassion toward those who are living with an illness.

Students will play a cooperative partner game where one student calls out body part commands (e.g., "elbow to elbow!") and pairs connect the named body parts, practicing listening, self-control, and movement. The game builds in complexity as students must follow multiple commands consecutively while switching partners throughout.

Students will play Red Light, Green Light, moving toward the teacher on "Green Light!" and freezing on "Red Light!," practicing listening, body awareness, and self-control. Afterward, they reflect on how they managed their bodies and emotions during the game.

Students listen to a friendship song, brainstorm and dictate qualities of a good friend, and draw their friends on paper links that get connected into a class Friendship Chain, finishing with a shared Friendship Poem or Chant.

Students will dance with partners and freeze when the music stops, then take turns moving creatively down a line while classmates clap, practicing self-control, listening, and social awareness through movement.

Students will develop listening and language skills by recreating sounds from the outdoor environment.

Recognize the feelings and perspectives of others, and role-play and brainstorm ways to respond to people depending on how they’re feeling.

Each child makes their own paper flower with a picture of themselves in the center and one talent written on each petal. All the flowers come together to form a class "Garden of Greatness" on the wall—a visible reminder that every child brings something to the room.

Students practice self-awareness by checking in with how they are feeling right now and using colors, shapes, and lines to draw it. Sharing is invitational, and the activity builds the language and confidence to name big feelings.

Students will learn what a compliment is, practice giving compliments to classmates, and notice how compliments can make a person feel valued. The class will build a paper chain of compliments together.

Students play a movement game where they balance a beanbag on their head while music plays. When the music stops, they freeze. When a beanbag falls, a friend has to help by carefully placing it back—then they move together as partners. The game builds listening, body control, and cooperative care all at once.

Students brainstorm and play a series of relay races they help design, taking turns passing a ball down the line in creative ways, then reflect on how their team worked together.

Students move around hula hoop "islands" to music and must work together to fit everyone onto fewer and fewer hoops each round, with the goal of including every student rather than eliminating anyone.