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    At a Glance

    Grades:4, 5, 6
    Subject:SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
    Topic:Kindness
    Lesson Length:20 - 30 mins

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description

    What will students learn in this activity?

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

    Know Before You Start

    What should students know before this activity?

    Have copies of the Kindness Checklist Comic printed for students to use throughout the week.

    Hook

    How can teachers introduce this lesson?

    • Discuss kindness.

      • What does it physically feel like when someone is kind to you?

      • What does it feel like to do kind things for others?

      • Allow students to be “Kindness Kids” by performing acts of kindness using the Kindness Checklist!

    Activity

    What will students do?

    • Read and discuss the sample comic.

    • Give students their own copy of the comic to use throughout the week. Challenge them to complete as many kindness activities as possible before the end of the week. 

    • Have students create a comic Kindness Checklist using their own avatar and kind actions.

    Closure

    How can teachers wrap up the lesson?

    • At the end of each day, ask students to share which acts of kindness shown in the comic they accomplished. Discuss how it felt to accomplish these tasks. 

    • At the end of the week, students can journal their kindness experiences. 

    Differentiation

    How can teachers differentiate this activity?

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
    • Provide sentence frames for whole group conversation.
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

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