7th Grade Back to School Lesson

Looking for a versatile and engaging resource to kickstart your classroom each day? This comprehensive set of 50 check-in slides is perfect for any subject area, advisory periods, or as conversation starters, bell ringers, or SEL activities. These slides are designed to foster reflection, build community, and create meaningful conversations in your classroom, all while being easy to use and adaptable to your needs.

Product Features:

• 50 Unique Check-In Slides: With a wide variety of themes including emojis, weather, animals, colors, songs, and more, these slides ensure that your students start the day reflecting on their emotions, sharing their thoughts, and connecting with their peers.
• Flexible Use: Whether you're teaching math, language arts, science, or social studies, these slides can be seamlessly integrated into any lesson. They are also perfect for advisory periods, morning meetings, or as part of your SEL (Social Emotional Learning) curriculum.
• Year-Round Utility: With 50 unique slides, this resource can be used for 10 weeks straight without repeats, making it a staple in your daily routine. Whether you need a quick bell ringer, a conversation starter, or a community-building activity, this resource has you covered.
• Build Community: Encourage students to share and listen to each other's responses, fostering a positive and supportive classroom environment. These activities help students develop self-awareness, empathy, and communication skills.
• Engage All Learners: The diverse range of check-ins ensures that there’s something for every student, whether they relate more to visuals, emotions, or metaphors. This inclusivity helps every student feel seen and heard.

Ideas to Use:

• Morning Routines: Start each day with a quick and easy check-in to gauge your students' mood and mindset.
• SEL Activities: Incorporate these slides into your social-emotional learning curriculum to help students develop key emotional intelligence skills.
• Bell Ringers: Use these slides as an engaging way to transition into your daily lessons, helping students shift their focus and prepare mentally.
• Advisory Periods: Foster deeper connections and discussions during advisory time with thought-provoking questions and activities.
• Conversation Starters: Encourage students to share and discuss their thoughts, building communication skills and classroom community.

Why This Resource?

Creating a classroom environment where students feel connected, understood, and engaged is key to successful learning. These check-in slides are designed to help you achieve that goal effortlessly. By incorporating these daily check-ins into your routine, you’re not just starting the day on the right foot—you’re building a classroom culture where every student feels valued.

Get ready to make mornings the best part of the day with these engaging, reflective, and fun check-in slides. Perfect for year-round use and suitable for students of all ages!

Conquer Science with Fun, Ready-Made Middle School Lesson Plans (Editable!)

Feeling overwhelmed by science curriculum? We've got you covered! Download these 16 EDITABLE Middle School Science Lesson Plans that are jam-packed with engaging topics guaranteed to spark student curiosity and make lesson planning a breeze.

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This plan book template is a great resource to help you organize your daily and weekly plans using Microsoft PowerPoint

If you are interested in a custom plan book with colors for the heading that match your school or your classroom theme, please message me, and I can post once created.

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Sept - Mental and emotional health, learning about our health, being unique, making responsible decisions,

Oct - Making daily responsible decisions, healthful ways to deal with strong emotions, differences between healthful and harmful relationship, expressing yourself

Nov - Different kinds of families, abuse and violence impacting a family, maintain healthful relationships, importance of practicing abstinence, HIV, AIDS, resisting to peer pressure

Dec - How do we grow and change, life stages, physical changes of adolescence, reproductive system, pregnancy, how to avoid teen pregnancy, the types of food we should eat

Jan - Taking care of your personal health, how to care for your teeth, staying safe during physical activity, treating injuries, how to reduce the risk for violence, signs of abuse

Feb - How do you stay safe - safety in school, community, kitchen, outdoors, staying safe in different kinds of weather, what do you do in an emergency, taking care of injuries, breaks and fractures

March - Differences between drugs and medicine, how alcohol affecting others, how tobacco affects the body, alcohol affecting the body

April - Different kinds of illegal drugs affecting the body, communicable diseases, what are STDs, Causes of HIV and AIDS, noncommunicable diseases

May - Managing time and money, finding valid health information, influences on consumer choices, different community health services

June - What makes your environment, keeping our environment clean, social emotional health affecting your health, and conversing resources

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This mental health curriculum includes suggested activities and tips to support mental health education and instruction for students in 5th through 8th Grade. Depending on students ability levels, this product could be used in 4th and 9th grade as well.

What's in this product:

Mental Health Promoting Self Care and Strength Notes - This product includes a 2 page teacher guide with tips and tricks when teaching self-management - promoting self-care for mental health and overall well being, an activity that relates with self-management, and a 12 page teacher guide with tips and tricks when teaching resiliency - students will learn from adversity and become a stronger, wiser person. Students will learn about overcoming problems that have helped them to become stronger, sometimes when we have problems we get pushed down and there are different choices we can make. Those choices are reviewed in this product. Students will discuss the importance of learning life lessons, positive feedback, poor habits, and good habits. They will learn the importance of being open-minded and how being open-minded leads to change, growth, and new possibilities. Students are also presented with different words that will help them to remember to have an open mind. Students will learn how to express positive feelings about themselves to help build self-esteem, strengthen their own identity, appreciate positive traits about their peers, and practice appropriate use of social media and mobile technology tools. Students will be presented with a real-life situation about how one woman defined herself and found happiness, they will discuss this individuals feels, how positive traits inspired her, and how she built up her self esteem. Students will discuss positive and neutral character traits, they will identify unique character traits about themselves and discuss them further and how these positive traits promote their overall well being.

Understanding Emotions - In this product, students will discuss what to ask for help for oneself and others. Students will identify and express a variety of feelings, common emotions that students feel, compare their emotions to a roller coaster ride and why that may happen, examples of emotional highs and emotional lows, when we feel emotional highs and lows, we may feel more pressure, and as students grow and develop – they need to deal with pressure. When students feel pressured, they can read the list of healthful ways to handle pressure, the list of feelings that it is okay to feel, what it is never okay to do, feelings and their definitions are included: embarrassment, depression, awkwardness, isolation, confusion, disappointment, hopefulness, optimism, happiness, and excitement. The importance of controlling emotions, suggestions for handling emotions are provided, mood swings, feeling pressure, and irritability are discussed. Students will be presented with different situations where they are required to identify the feeling, helpful ways to deal with the feeling, and harmful ways to deal with the feeling. Transition from elementary to middle school and adolescence are discussed and reviewed. Better techniques that can be used to form healthful relations are taught. Gossiping and annoying behaviors are reviewed and why they are frowned upon is included in this product. Students will also identify emotions, have students describe their own feelings and act out emotions. 10 emotion scenarios are provided for students to identify how students would feel if they were in that situation, students will track their emotions in a 7 day journal that is provided in this packet, coping skills are discussed and how they help us handle emotions in productive and positive ways, so our actions match our behavior, a list of poor coping skills is included along with healthy coping skills. Comprehension questions are asked throughout this product for students. They can be answered individually or as a group and can also be used as a group discussion. A teacher’s guide along with tips and activities is included with this product.

Social Communication Skills Adapted Notes and Review - In this product, students will begin to understand what words mean to others, get students to learn to actively listen to someone telling them information or telling them to complete a task, get students to verbalize more clearly, and get students to effectively communicate. Students will work with a partner by following their partners directions, and after the activity, students will evaluate the easiest part of the activity, hardest part of the activity, and answering the question why communication is important when verbalizing or interacting with others, students will read communication starters using facial expression, intonation, and tone of voice, the importance of using facial expression, intonation, and tone of voice are discussed in depth when having a conversation with others, Examples of different tones of voice are included in this product. Students will practice saying an expression a few different ways so they can understand how tone of voice is important, when we are frustrated or annoyed about something our tone of voice changes as does our intonation and facial expression, therefore, alternative strategies students can implement in their day to day routine are provided for when they feel frustrated, and when talking to others, students will learn that by listening to their conversation partner that they will understand how they are feeling based on their facial expressions, intonation, and tone of voice.

Emotional Awareness - In this product, students will identify how powerful positive and negative words are and for students to build empathy. Students will talk about words and actions that can hurt someone's heart/feelings. Students will learn the power of words and how they impact others, students will discuss the meanings of words: bullying, cattiness, discrimination, gossiping, self-esteem, and teasing, a list of hurtful words and actions, and helpful words and actions are provided, and students will be required to add onto all of these lists, students will talk about the effects of hurtful words on the heart, when students are frustrated what they can do to feel better, and how to better handle situations in the future when someone uses a hurtful word or you go to use a hurtful word.

Forgiveness Activities - In this product, students will learn what forgiveness is, to understand what forgiveness looks like, to discuss what forgiveness means, discuss the benefits of forgiveness, and to strategize how to practice forgiveness. Students will talk about what forgiveness means and how forgiveness means letting go of anger or resentment, Elizabeth Eckford and Tariq Khamisa are discussed in this product and what happened to them, how forgiveness was important in their situations, how forgiveness is important in these situations. Comprehension questions are asked that relate with Elizabeth and Tariq's situations and how students would handle forgiveness in these situations. Students will learn when they may want to forgive someone, when you may want someone to forgive you, and who you are hurting if you don't forgive someone. Students will learn that forgiveness requires compassion, empathy, and courage, it takes time and that is okay. Students will learn what to say to someone when they forgive them, how to show someone that you forgive them, and how you can ask forgiveness.

Gratitude Activity – Students will complete a gratitude scavenger hunt, where will they look for things in their environment that they are grateful for and students will answer questions about what they are grateful for such as something that they are thankful for that shows a vibrant color, something that makes them feel strong, something that they recently learned/discovered, etc.

Feelings and Mental Health Activities and Tips - In this product, students will learn to ask for help for self and others, students will use their imagination and visualization to release bad feelings, recognize when a situation needs help, students will identify the adults in school to ask for help from, identify the adults out of school to ask for help from, understand what trusting a person means, students will learn how we are all connected, learn what it means to work as a team, learn about different forms of communication, and practice different forms of communication. Students will talk about stuck feelings and how they get stuck, because you don't know that they are there, or you don't know how to let them go, a story about stuck feelings will be presented to students, and they will be required to answer questions about how they would best solve the problem if they were in the characters shoes, students will talk about pulling out their feelings, sending them away, and letting them go, students will focus on one uncomfortable feeling and will discuss where they can send it to let it go, so it doesn't return, students will talk about what they can do when they feel an unpleasant feeling, they will work on a feelings survival kit that will help them handle a situation in the future where they feel unpleasant feelings, students will discuss the definition of trust and who they can trust to help them when they are feeling unpleasant feelings, they will complete activities such as a buddy walk, trust fall, and trust drawing to help build trust, and students will complete a human knot and will work together with their peers to get out of the knot. Upon completing the human knot, students will complete the journal questions that are included in this product. Students will talk about the importance of communication and how we effectively communicate with others both verbally and nonverbally. Students will play the games telephone, charades, and hello with partners/groups and will reflect on their communication skills in the journal included in this product.

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Individual Products:

Mental Health Promoting Self Care and Strength Adapted Notes

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Mental-Health-Promoting-Self-Care-and-Strength-Notes-and-Activities-9662166

Understanding Emotions Activities:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Understanding-Emotions-Activities-9684291

Social Communication Skills Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Social-Communication-Skills-Notes-and-Review-9700711

Emotional Awareness:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Emotional-Awareness-9711191

Forgiveness Activities:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Forgiveness-Activities-9753807

Gratitude Activities:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Gratitude-Activities-9753926

Feelings and Mental Health Activities and Tips:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Feelings-and-Mental-Health-Activities-and-Tips-9766418

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Social Emotional Learning Lesson Plans and Activities

ABOUT THIS BUNDLE

★ Social Emotional Learning

★ GROWING BUNDLE!

★ Includes 8 Lesson and PowerPoint Packets

★ 765+ pages (with the POWERPOINT slides)

★ Suitable for grades 7-10 and lower-level High School Students

★ Print and Digital (PDF and Google Slides)

★ Absolutely No Prep!

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This Lesson Plan BUNDLE includes 6 Lesson Packets:

▶️ Empathy Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packet

▶️ Growth Mindset Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packet

▶️ Mindfulness Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packet

▶️ Moral Dilemma Lesson and PowerPoint Packet

▶️ Negotiation and Compromise Lesson and PowerPoint Packet

▶️ Self-Advocacy Lesson and PowerPoint Packet

▶️ Self-Care Lesson and PowerPoint Packet

▶️ Social Skills Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packet

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Social-emotional learning is a process where children develop and apply real-life skills and knowledge to understand and control emotions, interact appropriately with others, show empathy, develop healthy relationships, resolve conflicts, practice self-care, and make responsible decisions - important skills covered in these lessons.

This SEL LESSON PLAN BUNDLE includes 7 in-depth Lesson Plans and PowerPoint Packets with NUMEROUS supplemental materials to help you deliver the lessons effectively. They are a great way to integrate social emotional learning into your classroom and cultivate the social and emotional skills of your students. Implementing these important life skills into your curriculum and classrooms can help better develop and enhance your students' skills and prepare them for success.

Topics included are:

⭐ Empathy

⭐ Growth Mindset

⭐ Mindfulness

⭐ Moral Dilemma

⭐ Negotiation and Compromise

⭐ Self-Advocacy

⭐ Self-Care

⭐ Social Skills

Each SEL Lesson and PowerPoint Packet includes the following items:

☆ In-depth Lesson Plans (with Teacher Directions)

☆ Lesson PowerPoint Presentations (aligned to Lesson Plans)

☆ Lesson Activity Worksheets

☆ Reflection Worksheets

☆ Rubrics

☆ Detailed ANSWER KEYS

☆ Print and Digital versions (Text Boxes Already Created)

• . . . and SO MUCH MORE!!!

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