LESSON PLANS
Below are lesson plans shared by Indiana School Counselors on a variety of topics.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Academic Development
- Learning Styles
- Goal Setting
College/Career Readiness
- Career Lessons
- Grade 2 Career Lesson
- Grade 4 Career Lesson
- College planning and awareness curriculum developed by the Center for College Planning (CCP)- New Hampshire
- Career resources for the elementary school curriculum
- Career awareness lesson activities by career cluster (Georgia Department of Education)
- Claim Your Future
- Pennsylvania CareerZone
- Career Exploration Sites
Social/Emotional Development
- Indiana Social Emotional Learning Competencies PK-12 Lesson Plans
- Overcoming Obstacles – free K-12 Life Skills curriculum
- Bullying
- Anti-Bullying Parent Presentation
- Virtual Anti-Bullying Lesson (YouTube) – grades K-2
- Virtual Anti-Bullying Lesson (YouTube) – grades 3-5
- Consequences
- Problem Solving
- Girl Drama
- We do a mandatory girls only guidance in 4th grade and usually end up doing something similar in 6th grade. For 4th grade I use a great Healthy Friendships curriculum by the Responsive Counselor from Teachers Pay Teachers. It’s cheap and focuses on identifying healthy and unhealthy behaviors – which means you are not focusing on all of the things the girls are doing to each other but rather teaching healthy friendship and problem-solving skills. I would definitely recommend more than 1 class period. We met for 8 sessions, 30 minutes a session.
- I am trained in Restorative Practices and have used different scripts for different problems. Most recently I worked with a group of 4th grade girls who had a lot of conflict. Our focus was on becoming peacemakers at school. We met for 30 minutes 6 different times. Restorative Practices allows for growth without being too therapeutic. Pre-interviews are important to determine readiness and willingness to change. Find resources here and the resource Teaching Restorative Practices in the Classroom 7 lesson Curriculum, schottfoundation.org/resources, https://www.
restorativeschoolstoolkit.org/ road-map. - I used the Owning Up Curriculum.
- Gossip and Rumors
- A Glittery Gossip Lesson
- Rumor Gossip (PowerPoint presentation for Elementary and Middle School)
- Get to Know “Gabe the Gossip”
- Playground Gossip Hurts (grades 1-3)
- When Friends Gossip (grades 4-6)
- A Free Lesson on Gossip and Rumors (grades 4-6)
- Gossip- Deal With It Resource Guide(AGES 9-12)
- Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum
- Sanford Harmony (free online SEL curriculum for PK-6)
- Every Monday Matters (free onlinse SEL curriculum for K-12)
- Tolerance
- Virtual Lessons
- Feelings Lesson via Zoom
- Zoom Classroom Activities (3-6)
- Virtual SEL for our ESOL Enrichment Summer Program: Building Relationships Activities Final 1, Building Relationships Bingo, Life Skills- Building Relationships Lesson Plans, Who Am I Bingo
- Virtual Anti-Bullying Lesson (YouTube) – grades K-2
- Virtual Anti-Bullying Lesson (YouTube) – grades 3-5
- Virtual Lesson on Sadness (YouTube)
- Virtual Lesson on Stress (YouTube)
- Virtual Lesson on Finding My Happy (YouTube)
RESOURCES
- For a list of commonly shared resources for Elementary School Counselors, click here or download the Elementary Resources Excel sheet (from Counselor Talk, May 2019)
- K-12 Social & Emotional Development Lesson Plans from the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
- K-12 Academic Development Lesson Plans from the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
- K-12 Career Development Lesson Plans from the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
- K-12 Guidance & Counseling Units: Academic, Career and Personal & Social Development from the Missouri Center for Career Education
- K-12 Guidance Counseling Curriculum from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
- K-12 Free Guidance Lessons from Teachers Pay Teachers
- Zoom Classroom Activities (3-6)
- Book recommendations for worries, fears, change:
- Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival. Youtube reading of this book
- A Little Spot of Confidence by Diane Alber
- What Do You Do With a Problem by Kobi Yamada. Youtube reading of this book
- A Little Spot of Anxiety by Diane Alber
- Help Your Dragon Learn From Mistakes by Steve Herman
- Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by Julia Cook. Youtube reading of this book
- Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak
- The Very Hungry Worry Monsters by Make Believe Ideas. Youtube reading of this book
- Worry Say What, Allison Edwards
- Don’t Be Afraid to Drop, Julia Cook
- The Anti-Test Anxiety Society, Julia Cook
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