Five-day unit plan that leverages the power of the Classroom Circle to teach classroom expectations, recognizing values, self-awareness, emotions, strengths and struggles, teamwork, and empathy. The Classroom Circle is a powerful tool in building a classroom community. It's a way to teach and practice expectations for speaking and listening, as well as creating a classroom that provides a safe place for students to be vulnerable, empathetic, and to build on their own self-awareness.

10-lesson first grade unit to build classroom culture focused on identity, diversity and community.

10-lesson kindergarten unit to build classroom culture focused on identity, diversity and community.

10-lesson second grade unit to build classroom culture focused on identity, diversity and community.

10-lesson third grade unit to build classroom culture focused on identity, diversity and community.

This Digital Citizenship unit was created by the Snohomish School District. This strand in the unit focuses on: Internet Safety & Media Balance.

This unit, developed by Northshore School District in Washington, contains four days of lessons where students engage with music from a variety of cultures and analyze how emotions are communicated through different styles of music. Students will make connections between showing emotions with their words, their bodies and with instruments and will perform instruments as an ensemble to communicate different emotions. 

This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.

This lesson is part of a larger body of resources from educators in Mount Vernon School District in Washington state that explores the intersection of social emotional learning and physical education learning standards.

Lessons about Thanksgiving in elementary classrooms have historically misrepresented the events and people involved in the “first Thanksgiving.” Teachers are looking for guidance in teaching culturally and historically accurate lessons to young children. Updated research and texts supported by primary documents and tribal oral histories allow us to present more accurate representation of the story behind this tradition. The lessons presented here invite students to share their own fall and harvest traditions, and teach students some of the cultural values and traditions of our country’s indigenous peoples. Lessons are designed to be integrated into existing curriculum on fall/autumn, food, harvest, celebrations, and/or salmon prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, but could be taught independently of other curriculum as well. Lessons 1-4 are written for k-3 and should be adapted for developmental appropriateness.

These resources from Mount Vernon School District educators provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and teaching strategies.