Empathy 2: Showing empathy - SEL Lesson

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

This is lesson 2 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. Social Awareness 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.

Discussing empathy in your classroom can help your students form better relationships with the people around them. The ability to think about how other people might feel or act in situations and respond in a supportive way, teaching empathy is an integral part of any social and emotional learning program because of its benefits for group work. Achieve your SEL goals and instil this important life skill with the help of these tailored lesson plans.