50 Social and Emotional Learning Mini Lesson Student Packets - Upper Grades

These student packets, created by an award-winning educator with 20 years of classroom experience, are ideal for an Advisory Course, Life Skills Course, or as part of a lesson in a content area course related to one of the wide variety of available topics to choose from. Students write a daily gratitude statement, are reminded to keep a growth mindset and to practice 4-7-8 breathing, answer focus questions as they watch a short video online (active links to videos included in the dcownload as well as the length of each video), write 5 facts from CNN 10 (free 10-minute news show for students), review "I Can" statements, complete a literacy task (educators choose texts to use with the close-reading student templates provided) write daily academic and behavior goals, and reflect on their performance in school for the day. Educators need access to the internet and the ability to project the videos and news show with audio for the students. Lessons can also be selected and shared online with students. An introduction (pages 1-7) is included to explain the rationale and research for the structure and content of the student packets. Answer keys are not included for the videos because answers may vary for many questions, and teachers should preview each video before showing it to students to determine if the content is appropriate for their classroom. Additionally, the news show is different every day so it is impossible to prepare a key in advance and students' answers will vary. It is generally not difficult or time-consuming to assess students' responses, which frequently offer valuable insights about their learning and positionality as students. CONTENTS Pages 1-7: Introduction to the lessons and works cited Some of the 50 mini lesson topics: 4 Billion Years of Evolution in 6 Minutes/How to Escape Gravity (4 minutes) TED Talk/TEDedA Difference From an Unusual Place - Luis Gonzalez TED Talk (9 minutes) Adam Foss: A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system TED Talk (16 minutes) After watching this, your brain will not be the same Lara Boyd (14 minutes) All it Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes: Andy Puddicombe TED Talk (9 minutes) Brain Games - What you don't know (21 minutes) Brain Games - Focus Pocus (22 minutes) Belly Breathe with Common and Colbie Callait (2 mins)4 Steps to Developing a Growth Mindset? (4 mins) Am I Not Human? A call for criminal justice reform, Marlon Peterson TEDxTalk (7.5 mins) Bruce Talks Candidly About His Time in Prison and Life on the Streets Released OWN(4.5 minutes) Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About an Injustice TED Talk (24 minutes) Carry On - An ESPN short film in Cleveland, Ohio (21 minutes) Chess & Community: the power of a single hour/Lemuel LaRoche TEDTalk (16 minutes) Clint Smith: The Danger of Silence TED Talk (4 minutes) Dan Gross: Why Gun Violence Can't Be Our New Normal (13:39 mins) Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff (18 minutes) Dare to Dream Again, Prophet Walker TED Talk (6 minutes) David Gallo: Underwater astonishments (5 minutes) TED TalkEpigenetics and the Influence of Our Genes - Courtney Griffins TEDx (18 minutes) ESPN E60 - Four Weeks in Ferguson (11 minutes) ESPN 30 for 30 -Ghosts of 'Ole Miss (50 minutes) ESPN E60 - Love is Stronger, Chris Singleton (30 mins) Facing Fear - Sean Wilson (5 mins)4 Thoughts About Gratitude That Could Change Your Life Digital Original Oprah Winfrey Network (2.5 minutes) Breathing Space: Solitude on the Pacific Crest Trail SuperSoul Sunday Oprah Winfrey Network (1.5 minutes) Fox Sports Tour of Negro League Baseball Museum (6 minutes) Freeman Hrabowski: 4 pillars of college success in science (& in school)(15 minutes TED Talk) Friends (spoken word) by Suli Breaks (3 minutes) Grateful for the Opportunity, M. Clark (5 minutes) Heroes & Villains: Is Hip Hop a Cancer or a Cure? Lecrae (18 minutes TED Talk) Hip Hop & Shakespeare? Akala at TEDxAldeburgh (20 minutes)