Teach Social-emotional Learning with Comics

Basic Emotions

Students will display basic emotions they can feel.

Growth Mindset

Students will illustrate a growth mindset.

Personal and Collective Goals

Students will showcase their personal and collective goals.

Showing Thanks

Students will create a comic to show gratitude or thanks to someone who helped them.

What Are Their Superpowers?

Students will recognize the strengths in another person.

Climbing a Mountain

Students will demonstrate how they overcame an obstacle.

Teamwork

Students will illustrate how a group completed a task together.

Personal and Social Identity

Students will celebrate aspects of their personal and social identities.

Open-Mindedness

Students will illustrate how they did or could play a game that they did not know before. 

Problem-Solving

Students will show three to five steps to solve a problem.

Thinking Critically

Students will represent how critical thinking skills can be used in and out of school.

Who Am I?

Students will share aspects of their own cultures.

Walk in My Shoes

Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of empathy by showing the perspective of another person or party.

Community Well-Being

Gaslighting

In this lesson, students will familiarize themselves with examples of gaslighting, and think about how it makes people feel or what they might do about it in real-life scenarios.

Consequences

We are all faced with daily decisions, each of which has good and/or bad consequences. Our ability to tackle these choices in an informed and responsible manner is key to the development of our personal character. Illustrate the consequences of our decisions, big and small.

Autism Awareness

Autism is a developmental disorder which affects approximately 1 in 54 children in the United States. Symptoms often include difficulty communicating with other people, repetitive behaviors and sensory sensitivities. Bring awareness and understanding to your students about autism, and teach them how to respond appropriately to pertinent situations with patience and sensitivity.

Setting Boundaries

Through prompted questions in comics, students will reflect on people and situations where they may have struggled with setting boundaries to better prepare for similar future scenarios.

Peak, Pit & Horizon Mindful Reflection

Students will mindfully reflect on their week’s highlights, challenges and hopes using a mountain metaphor.

Calm Down Strategies

This lesson is intended to reinforce and create an individualized calm down strategy for students.

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

Through prompted questions in comics, students will reflect and learn to be grateful.

Personal Traditions

Students will create comics about personal traditions they celebrate outside of school.

“How Are My Collaboration Skills?” Self Test

Students will take a comic-based collaboration self-assessment to reflect on collaboration skills and goals.

Visible and Invisible Me!

Students will define visible characteristics that describe who they are and then explore the invisible characteristics, or things that are unseen and felt inside, that define who they are but people may not know.

Asking For Help!

Students will practice how to ask for help.

Digital Habits Quiz

Students will take a true or false quiz to test their knowledge about digital usage and their mental health, and then create a comic showing some positive alternatives.

My Motivational Motto!

Students will create a motto using Mad-Lib type sentence frames.

S.M.A.R.T Goal Refresher

Students will review the meaning of the acronym of “S.M.A.R.T.” goal in preparation to write a goal of their own.

Be Proud!

Students will celebrate accomplishments they’ve achieved in the last year.

Making Smart Choices

Students will use reflection questions to learn how to make good decisions at home and in school.

Mindful Morning Routine

Students will use a comic to guide themselves through a short mindful practice.

The Art of Apologizing

Through this sample comic, students will learn to use compassionate words when apologizing.

Try Time Management Strategies!

Students will learn time management strategies, then choose one to use for a week.

Healthy Relationships

Set your students up for life in and out of school by teaching them about healthy vs. unhealthy relationships.

First Day of a New School Year

Students will think about how they and others are feeling about the return to school.

Handling Conflict

Students will read a conflict comic and discuss conflict resolution.

Integrity

Students will use comic scenarios to discuss whether or not the characters are showing integrity.

Coping With Anxiety

Students will practice different coping mechanisms that can help with anxiety.

Be an Upstander!

Students will learn about living as an upstander and explore what they might say to someone who is bullying someone else.

Naming Parts of the Brain

Students will review brain terminology.

Rewind Your Routine

Students will organize panels in the sample comic in the order of their own morning routines.

Kindness Checklist

Students will practice kindness while completing a Kindness Comic Bingo Card.

Create a Procrastination Villain!

Students will learn to combat procrastination with this activity.

Is It Joking or Bullying?

Students will learn the difference between joking and bullying.

Would You Rather?

Play a game of Would You Rather to create opinion comics with your students.

Get To Know Me!

Students will share their life in a comic.

Perseverance Power!

Students will create themselves as “Perseverance Superheroes” and find a quote that inspires them to never give up.

My Trust Team!

Students will illustrate people in their lives that they trust and can confide in.

Responsibility in School and Classroom

Students will illustrate a classroom or school expectation in comic book style.

Practicing Empathy

Students will practice showing empathy in different comic scenarios.

Gratitude Journal

Students will create a comic journal documenting what they’re grateful for.

Create Emotion Characters

Students will create a comic depicting a variety of emotions.

Responsibility: What Would You Do?

Students will explore responsibility and reflect on how they would handle authentic moral dilemmas they may face in school or in life.

Celebrate Your Peers!

Students will interview a classmate and create a comic celebrating their unique strengths and passions.

The Power of Yet!

Students will explore the power of “yet” and create a “Things We Can’t Do Yet!” comic.