Social Emotional Learning: Compassion Activities

Social emotional lessons are an important part of student development and growth. During the school year, we ask students to be kind and respectful of each other, therefore, it’s important to provide students with instruction on HOW to be kind, respectful, and all the things we are asking them to be. I developed these lesson activities on compassion to support teachers in teaching character and building classroom community.

These activities are great for homeroom/advisory lessons or any period in the school day reserved for classroom community building.

This compassion activities packet includes six activities about compassion and kindness. Each activity is designed to take about 15 mins to complete.

Brief summary of included activities:

• Activity 1: “Act it out” In this activity, students learn to make connections between emotions and compassion

• Activity 2: “Compassion Cooper” in this activity, students provide example of compassion in action.

• Activity 3: “Put Yourself In My Shoes” in this activity, students practice compassion by roleplaying and debriefing in small groups.

• Activity 4: “Random Act of Kindness” in this activity, students practice an act of kindness towards each other or someone in their lives/community.

• Activity 5: “Compassion Round Robin” in this activity, students will engage in storytelling about compassion Round Robin style.

• Action 6: “Compassion Cards” in this activity, students create cards for 2 people in their lives and describe how they are going to be compassionate to those people. They then commit to completing one action mentioned in the cards.

Additional Information:

Grade level: 4-6th, Homeschool

Subjects: School counseling, Character Education, Classroom Community

Resource Type: Activities, Printables, Cooperative Learning, instant digital download

Format: PDF

Pages: 7pgs.