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The Feelings Thermometer is a visual tool that can help students measure how they are doing emotionally and identify steps they can take to shift their mood when things are getting tough.

Like a temperature thermometer, the Feelings Thermometer shows when your emotional temperature is getting warmer and then hotter, to potentially dangerous degrees. It starts at blue – the calm zone and goes to red – the furious zone.  Throughout the zones, it lists activities to feel less angry, frustrated, anxious, and sad. Research shows that just identifying a calming activity can reduce stress and anxiety.  

This resource can be used in a variety of settings to help students name their feelings and identify methods to self-regulate their negative emotions.

Welcome to the world of Ammi—a mindfulness adventure series for young children. Ammi is a wise and gentle child who leads the way as we explore ourselves and one another through the natural world. Each story uses guided imagery to inspire inner connection and support emotional regulation. These simple meditations recognize the importance of imagination as a foundation for conscious creation in the world. They bridge the physical, the energetic, the emotional, and all the spaces in between. Whether in the home or classroom, you can engage in these special practices with children of all ages. Read them aloud together, listen to the guided meditation, and welcome the time to process and integrate the practice.

This resource will help young students learn mindfulness techniques, including practicing self-control and strategies for managing stress. 

This is a lesson plan from Google for Education, Applied Digital Skills. During this lesson, students learn to identify and avoid online scams by analyzing a real-life situation in a group. Students will work collaboratively to identify online scams. They will analyze an online scam to identify suspicious behavior and warning signs. Then they will create a group document discussing an online scam and provide guidelines for how to avoid scams. 

This graphic organizer will guide students through the process of analyzing a historical document such as a newspaper article, a report, a magazine article, a congressional record, a press release, a census report, an internet article, a map, an official memorandum, or an announcement. This worksheet includes guiding questions that will support students as they closely read and analyze a selected historical document.

In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades K-3, students watch the BrainPOP Jr. movie Emotions and explore related resources to learn how to recognize our own emotions, and how being mindful of them can help us. Students will then play a game of Emotion Charades to demonstrate that our nonverbal communication can indicate someone's current feelings and emotions. In conclusion, students will discuss how identifying our emotions can help us select strategies to work through the emotions in a positive manner and support others as they experience emotions.

This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on the Han Dynasty of China. The Han Dynasty brought the birth of paper and advances in writing and art until it lost control in 220 A.D. 

This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great was born into royalty in Macedonia, educated by Aristotle, and would ascend to the Macedonian throne after his father was assassinated, building one of the largest empires of his time.

This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on Caligula, a Roman emperor who was the victim of an unknown illness resulting in erratic, impulsive, and sadistic behavior. Caligula's excesses and draining of the treasury would result in a conspiracy among senators to assassinate the mentally ill emperor.

This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on the city of Constantinople. Established in 657 BCE but later renamed by the Roman emperor Constantine I, the city of Constantinople served as the Byzantine capital with structures still remaining today in modern-day Istanbul.

This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which was caused by internal division, corruption, tax evasion, labor shortages, religion, and invasions from more powerful invading forces.