7-Unit Humanities & SEL Bundle for Grades 5-8 | Social Justice, Equity, SEL
By TooBookedUp
1. 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit Grades 6+ | Project, Essay, Assessments, Seminar
Description:
Explore the theme of equity and disabilities in schools and society with this 18-day unit designed for grades 6+. Students will engage with informational texts, videos, and case studies, leading to a STAAR-aligned extended essay and research project. This resource includes Socratic seminars, assessments, and creative projects to promote critical thinking and empathy. Perfect for SEL, humanities, and cross-curricular classrooms.
2. 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Poetry, Assessments
Description:
Dive into the global topic of migration and immigration with this 18-day thematic unit for grades 7+. Through poetry, short stories, and informational texts, students will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of immigrants. Includes project-based assessments, writing tasks, and creative multimedia projects to foster understanding and empathy. A great resource for ELA, social studies, and SEL instruction.
3. 18-Day Multimedia Anti-Bullying Thematic Unit for Grades 5-8 | SEL Humanities
Description:
This 18-day multimedia unit on anti-bullying for grades 5-8 engages students with a range of media—films, political cartoons, short stories, and songs—to understand the impact of bullying in schools and society. Includes two Socratic seminars, a STAAR-aligned extended essay, and a creative capstone project. Ideal for SEL-focused classrooms and humanities teachers.
4. 19-Day Social Identity Unit | Low Prep | Grades 6-8 | Texts, Videos, and Project
Description:
Help students explore their own social identity and the factors that shape it in this 19-day unit for grades 6-8. The unit includes videos, readings, and group projects focused on themes like identity, community, and belonging. A low-prep, high-impact resource that encourages self-reflection and empathy through engaging multimedia activities and a culminating project.
5. 20-Day Social Media Mental Health Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Essay, Assessments
Description:
Explore the intersection of social media and mental health in this 20-day unit for grades 7+. Students will examine the effects of social media on well-being through informational texts, videos, and podcasts. Includes a STAAR-aligned essay, Socratic seminar, and multimedia project, making it an essential resource for teaching critical thinking and digital literacy.
6. 7-Day World Religions Research & Presentation Unit: Interdisciplinary Grades 6-8
Description:
This 7-day research and presentation unit allows students to explore major world religions through research-based learning. Perfect for grades 6-8, students will develop presentations on various religions, fostering understanding and global awareness. Includes guided research templates, presentation rubrics, and cross-curricular connections.
7. Human Rights 5-Day Research and Writing Unit | Middle School Social Essay Project
Description:
Introduce your middle school students to the concept of human rights in this 5-day research and writing unit. Students will engage with informational texts to explore human rights issues globally and locally, culminating in a social justice essay project. This unit is ideal for quick yet impactful lessons that combine research, writing, and advocacy.
Health Full Year - Adapted Notes and Review
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This bundle includes year long health notes that are adapted. Students can fill in the blanks, circle the correct answers, and fill in true/false answers in the following 17 packets below. Each packet includes notes and review. Students can complete the review independently or with help.
These adapted health notes and review cover the following topics:
Mental and Emotional Health: Mental and emotional health - the different parts of health, total health, physical health, mental and emotional health, family and social health, health goals, risky behavior, healthful behaviors, life skills - healthful actions to learn and improve and maintain health, and practicing healthful behaviors. This product provides information that is adapted from the book that is more appealing and meets your student's individual learning needs.
Character: Showing good character, personality - what is it made up of? - how you look, feel, act, and think. Personality is influenced by heredity, emotions, strengths and weaknesses, and values. Self-respect, having good character traits - character, trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Kinds of decisions - right decisions vs. wrong decisions and influencing of making decisions. What to say to peers when in a situation where the wrong situation could made and who to talk to about it.
Expressing Emotions and a Healthy Self Concept: Healthful self concept, actions for a healthful self concept, showing good character and how to do that, making responsible decisions, choosing actions for a healthy mind, practice life skills, setting health goals, practicing healthful behaviors, expressing emotions - fear, caring, joy, grief.
Stress: Dealing with stress - stress, stressor, and attitude towards stress - way of thinking, acting, and feeling. Body's reaction to stress - heart beating fast, muscles getting tense, breathing faster, hands getting moist, and mouth getting dry. Ways to manage stress - identify the signs of stress, identify the causes of stress, do something about the causes of stress, and take action to reduce the harmful effects of stress.
Relationships: Respect, examples of showing respect, what is respect?, what is a relationship? - the different kinds of relationships between acquaintances, friends, close friends, and best friends, using good communication skills, communicating, communicating in a healthful way, using self-control, and reasons to maintain self-control
Anger: Managing anger and how to manage it, feelings that lead to anger, avoid fighting, staying calm, using self-control, talking about conflict, ways to settle conflict, agreeing on ways to settle conflict, and mediation.
Families: Being close to family members, the different kinds of families, how family influences your health, how families work together, adjusting together within your family, separation, and divorce within a family, and when families grow larger.
Friendship: How true friends act, friends, peers, what is a tree friend, using resistance skills, saying no, how to say no and stand your ground, resisting peer pressure, the 5 steps for using resistance skills - say no, give your reasons for saying no, match your behavior to your words, ask an adult for your help if you need it, and how do we make friends.
Life Cycle: heredity, hormones, factors that affect growth, environment, life cycle and what happens at each stage - infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and death.
Nutrients: nutrients, proteins, carbohydrates, fat, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, water, vitamins, minerals, different types of vitamins - A, B1, B2, B12, C, & D, what they do, and the food sources they come from, the types of minerals - calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorous, sodium, and zinc, and what they do, and food sources they come from, and dietary guidelines - how to prepare food correctly, what foods to limit, and eat more of.
Dental, Ear, and Eye Health: your healthcare team - parents/guardians, doctor, dentist, etc., your eyes - vision difficulties - nearsighted and farsighted, how to take care of your eyes, the parts of your eyes - iris, pupil, lens, retina, optic nerve, hearing loss, how to protect your ears, hearing aids, cochlear implants, American Sign Language, the parts of the ears - ear canal, ear drum, cochlear, and auditory nerve, your teeth - primary and permanent teeth, kinds of teeth - incisors, bicuspids, cuspids, and molars, caring for your teeth - dental plaque, cavity, and fluoride.
Safety: vocabulary and tips on how to stay safe in our environment are reviewed in this product, what to do to stay safe at home and school, how to prevent falls, injuries, accidents, violence, staying safe at school, fire safety at home, fire safety at school, staying safe indoors and outdoors, staying safe when walking, swimming, in a vehicle - car or school bus, staying safe on a bicycle, the importance of wearing a helmet, staying safe from strangers, school and community safety, safe touch, unsafe touch, what a victim is, what recovery is, and what weapons are.
Emergency Situations: emergencies, first aid, first aid kit, what is in a first aid kit, infection, universal precautions, what to do for small cuts, deep cuts, scrapes, and nosebleeds, how to handle sprains, strains, and burns, how to help someone who is choking, and rashes from plants, This product includes notes, vocabulary review - fill in the blanks, true/false questions, and short answer questions.
Drugs: drugs, medicine, prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, rules for taking medicine safely, tamper resistant seal, expiration date, side effects, taking medicine, drug abuse, drug misuse, alcohol, depressant, alcoholism, how alcohol harms physical health and what areas are impacted, alcohol and how it harms emotional and mental health, problem drinking, reasons to resist alcohol, nicotine, stimulant, tar, secondhand smoke, smokeless tobacco, reasons to avoid tobacco, marijuana, short-term effects and long-term effects of marijuana, stimulants - amphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, and depressants, inhalants, steroids, and using resistance skills. This product includes notes, vocabulary review - fill in the blanks, true/false questions, and short answer questions.
Diseases: kinds of pathogens - disease, communicable disease, pathogen, where pathogens get into the body, bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists, signs and symptoms of disease - symptom, fever, swollen lymph nodes, coughing, treading diseases - treatment of disease, treating bacterial diseases, viral diseases, fungal diseases, diabetes - type 1 and type 2, allergies, what causes allergies, reactions to allergies, asthma, ways to reduce asthma attacks, heart disease, veins, arteries, how to reduce your risk of heart disease, heart attack, warning signs of heart attack, cancer - skin, lung, and colon cancer, ways to reduce cancer.
Budgeting: Managing money - basic expenses, other purchases, saving money, writing a check, why we use checks, where we bring checks, banks, clients of a bank, who works at a bank - bank teller, using an ATM, opening and using a bank account, writing a check - examples, writing out a check, using a credit card, spending time wisely on homework, physical activity, interests, friends and family, and time alone, healthful entertainment, community health, careers and examples of careers, places you can go for health care - home, school, doctor's office, mental health centers, community health departments, health clinics, and hospitals - inpatient and outpatient.
Pollution: Environment, natural resources, pollution, types of pollution - land, air, and water pollution, sanitary landfills, ways to reduce air pollution - ozone, smog, and acid rain, algae/red tides, ways to reduce air pollution, what things you should avoid that can harm the environment, how to reduce pollution, reducing water pollution, conserving water, ways to conserve water, recycle, reduce, and reuse, saving energy - solar panels, wind turbines, and how to save energy at home. Students are provided with notes on each of the above topics. Students will answer multiple choice comprehension questions and short answer comprehension questions independently or with support.
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