Free Classroom Activities

Reinforce Skills and Reach Goals

Part of our mission is to empower children and adults with social-emotional skills that help them realize their goals in the classroom and throughout their lives. In keeping with that, and in an effort to help educators engage with their students and reinforce the social-emotional skills they’re teaching, we’ve created this Free Classroom Activities Page.

Here you’ll find materials that have been developed for preschool through middle school classrooms by our Second Step team of experts. These activities align with the Second Step K–5 Suite—which includes Second Step SEL, the Child Protection Unit, and the Bullying Prevention Unit—and with Mind Yeti for Schools, a mindfulness program designed for elementary-aged students.*

Bookmark this page and share it with your colleagues because we’ll be continually adding activities for you to use at your school.

* Mind Yeti is not accepting new users at this time.

Early Learning

Early Learning student

12 Recommended Books About Empathy and Kindness

Each grade level of Second Step has a curated list of recommended books that help reinforce the social-emotional skills taught in our classroom curricula. Here’s our list of the books in our Early Learning through Grade 2 lists that focus on kindness and empathy.Read More

Elementary

Elementary student

12 Recommended Books About Empathy and Kindness

Each grade level of Second Step has a curated list of recommended books that help reinforce the social-emotional skills taught in our classroom curricula. Here’s our list of the books in our Early Learning through Grade 2 lists that focus on kindness and empathy.Read More

Middle School

Middle School student