Social engagement 1: Kindness is cool - SEL Lesson

Use this ready-made SEL lesson focusing on the subskill of 'Social Engagement' to help you with social emotional learning in the classroom.

This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 and it's designed for use as one of your SEL activities with the whole class, a small group, or one-to-one. Relationship Skills is one of the five components that make up CASEL's model of SEL education. To find other SEL activities, please visit our homepage and search through hundreds of SEL lessons created by educators and other experts in SEL education.

Our digital SEL lessons integrate with Pear Deck to facilitate student engagement. These lessons include interactive, age-appropriate social emotional learning activities, questions, videos, and animations for every CASEL subskill.

It can be frustrating as an SEL teacher when your students are reluctant to participate in group work. Use this SEL resource to develop their social engagement skills and improve in-class participation, helping to resolve this issue all while preparing students for the polite social interaction inevitable in their future.