Lesson Plan

Self-Care SEL Lesson Plan

Feel your heartbeat race, then slow it down with your own breath, and find out what really fills you up.

This five-day unit gives you a ready-to-teach plan for Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8), for siblings or a mixed classroom. Littles learn feeling words, play heartbeat detective and practice four calm-down steps. Middles rewrite inner-critic lines into coach lines, measure their pulse before and after slow breathing, and graph the results. Bigs sort rest from avoiding, run a heart rate lab with a control and percent change, log sleep and screens, and plan a balanced week. Every level makes a Self-Care Menu to keep, and a note for the grown-up explains the goal and the words to practice together.

Perfect for homeschool families, multi-age classrooms, SEL lessons and health units.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for each of three levels
• A note for the grown-up for each level
• My Self-Care Menu keepsake
• Heartbeat lab, calm-down step cards, cut-and-sort and a writing page
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards, a book list and a certificate per level

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