Empathy Character Education Unit | Social Emotional Learning
Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Empathy Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of empathy activities, printables, lesson plans, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, anchor charts, and so much more to give your students intentional practice with empathy in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop empathy skills and positive character traits.
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Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Empathy Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of empathy activities, printables, lesson plans, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, anchor charts, and so much more to give your students intentional practice with empathy in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop empathy skills and positive character traits.
You’ll Love:
- A variety of resources to explicitly model and practice empathy with students
- Giving your students an opportunity to build their classroom community
- Bolstering your SEL curriculum and making character education a priority
What You Get in this Empathy Character Education Unit:
A Full Month of Character Education/SEL Curriculum
Empathy Pacing Guide
- Organize your entire month of empathy
- Plan to set aside the necessary time to complete the curriculum with your students
Empathy Parent Letter
- Get family members involved so they can reinforce the character education trait at home.
- Provides parents with tools to help them explain, model, and praise empathy at home.
- Includes a list of books and movies that families can enjoy together.
Empathy Read Alouds
- Choose empathy read aloud texts that teach different aspects of empathy.
- Each book makes for a great discussion!
Empathy Bulletin Boards
- Introduce empathy to your students with a beautiful bulletin board display.
- Keep this display in your classroom for the entire month that you are teaching empathy.
- Everything you need to create the display is here – including completed examples!
Empathy Anchor Chart
- Create a visual reference for your students – keep learning accessible!
- Students can refer back to this anchor chart as they respond to questions, work independently, and contribute to discussions during your SEL or Character Education lessons.
- A printable version of the anchor chart is also included.
Empathy Posters
- Provide students with a visual definition of empathy in your room with 3 poster options.
Daily Empathy Calendar
- Use this calendar to challenge your students to show empathy each day.
- It is editable so you can change the month or the empathy acts.
- TIP: Edit this resource to make multiple versions of the calendar – students perform different empathy challenges than their classmates each day!
Doodle Reflection Page
- Give students the chance to get creative with ideas about what empathy is, and how they can show it.
- Includes reflection questions, examples of empathy, fun empathy quotes, and doodles.
Big Feelings Empathy Activity
- Students reflect on how they would deal with big feelings like angry, scared, disappointed, and jealous.
- Students discuss how they would show empathy to someone who was having those same feelings.
Respond With Empathy Activity
- Students will respond to tough situations that might come up during their time in the classroom.
- Students write about how they would respond to their classmates with empathy.
Empathy Interview Activity
- Students will partner up and interview a classmate about feelings they have had.
- Students write about times their partner was scared, annoyed, frustrated, etc.
- Students record how their partner felt, and how they would feel and respond in that situation.
Quote of the Week
- Each week, discuss a new quote about empathy with your students.
- Quote of the week includes five different empathy quotes.
- Activity page with three reflection questions is included for each quote.
- Each quote is available in a speech bubble that you can print and hang.
Empathy Scenarios
- Let students place themselves in new situations and think about ways to show empathy.
- Use these scenarios to inspire meaningful conversations in your classroom.
- Display the scenarios on your bulletin board for a class discussion or print the scenarios for students to work in groups or independently.
Empathy Reader’s Theatre
- Readers theater will help with fluency, comprehension, and speaking and while studying character education.
- There are three scripts for students to read and perform
Writing Prompts + Publishing Pages
- Includes five writing prompts for students to reflect and write about empathy.
- Students write about how characters from some classic stories (Goldilocks, The Lion and the Mouse Harry Potter, etc.) showed or failed to show empathy. Students will also write about what it means to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” the importance of empathy in a job or other role, a short story about empathy when adopting a pet, and a story about the feelings of some family members at a family reunion.
- Bulletin board, writing paper, and clipart to turn this into a display is included.
Digital Option for Use With Google
- Option to go 100% paperless with this resource
These activities are perfect for:
- Morning Meetings
- Counselor Lessons
- Whole-Class Discussions
- Service Learning Projects
- Conflict Resolution Discussions
- Small Groups
- Independent Work
- Early Finishers
- Morning Work
- Sub Plans, and so much more!
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Why Teachers Like You LOVE This Resource:
“This resource is very complete. I love the pacing guide and empathy calendar. I will DEFINITELY be using this again next year. Thank you!”, – Kimberly Y.
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