A high-energy, 20-minute teamwork session designed for three Year 5 students. The challenge focuses on tiered communication and strategic planning as students work together to replicate a hidden structure under strict role-based constraints.
The final lesson of the 3-5 curriculum, teaching the FAST skill. This skill focuses on building and maintaining self-respect in social interactions by being fair, avoiding over-apologizing, sticking to one's values, and being honest.
A lesson for grades 3-5 to teach the DEAR MAN skill. Students learn how to effectively ask for what they want or need while maintaining positive relationships and their own self-respect.
A lesson for grades 3-5 to teach the skill of Opposite Action. When our feelings don't match the facts, we can change how we feel by doing the opposite of what our body wants to do.
The final lesson for grades 3-5, teaching the FAST skill for maintaining self-respect in social interactions, called 'Self-Respect Lab,' focusing on being fair, apologies, sticking to values, and truthfulness.
A lesson for grades 3-5 on the GIVE skill, called 'Relationship Care,' teaching students how to maintain and improve relationships by being gentle, acting interested, validating, and using an easy manner.
A lesson for grades 3-5 to teach the DEAR MAN skill for effective communication, called 'Clear Requests,' helping students learn how to ask for things or say no while maintaining relationships.
A lesson for grades 3-5 on the 'ABC' and 'PLEASE' skills, called 'Healthy Habits,' focusing on building a life that reduces emotional vulnerability through accumulation of positive events and physical health.
A lesson for grades 3-5 focused on Problem Solving, using the 'Solution Lab' metaphor to teach a step-by-step approach to resolving situations that can be changed.
A lesson for grades 3-5 on the skill of Opposite Action, called the 'Action Flip,' teaching students how to change their emotions by acting against their action urges when they are not helpful.
A lesson for grades 3-5 to introduce the 'Check the Facts' skill, where students act as investigators to determine if their emotional interpretations align with the objective evidence.
A lesson for grades 3-5 focused on the concept of Radical Acceptance, called the 'Acceptance Lab,' where students learn to accept reality as it is to reduce suffering and move toward problem-solving.
A lesson for grades 3-5 to explore distress tolerance through strategic distraction, using the 'Distraction Research' metaphor to identify helpful ways to manage high-intensity emotions without making things worse.
A lesson for grades 3-5 to teach the 'Check the Facts' skill. Students learn to use a 'Facts Filter' to determine if their emotional reaction matches the reality of a situation.