Do your students struggle with self-doubt or hesitate to step outside their comfort zones? This Courage SEL Unit gives you everything you need to build a classroom where students recognize their inner strength, embrace new challenges, and face difficulties with resilience and assertiveness.
NOTE: This character education unit is also included in the SEL Morning Meeting Bundle 3 with four additional themes.
Through analyzing social scenarios in suggested read alouds, reflecting and journaling with courage-focused prompts, and participating in assertiveness and problem-solving activities, students will learn to identify different types of courage, face challenges with confidence, and develop the inner strength needed to thrive both academically and socially.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS UNIT
- 25 Days of Ready-to-Use Lessons – Print-and-go lesson plans with suggested read-alouds, discussion questions, 21 courage and assertiveness activities, extension ideas, and linked online resources.
- Flexible for Any Setting – Works for morning meetings, character education programs, counselor lessons, or sub plans.
- Standards-Aligned SEL – Integrates courage and assertiveness directly into ELA skills and common themes in literature, maximizing every minute of your SEL or morning meeting time.
- Printable & Digital – Google Slides for teachers and students included.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR COURAGE SEL UNIT (Scroll through the preview to see more!)
✨ 25 Days of Printable & Editable Lesson Plans — includes suggested read alouds, discussion questions, courage activities, extension ideas, and linked online resources
✨ Social Emotional Learning Journals — courage-related discussion prompts, self-reflection and goal setting exercises, and social emotional learning worksheets to deepen students' understanding of courage and assertiveness, with activities like Problem-Solving Scenario Cards for Assertiveness Social Scenarios, Big and Small Acts of Courage Sorting Activity, Preparing Our Minds to Act with Courage, Examining Historical Courage in Stories, and more!
✨ SEL Bulletin Board Materials that include important vocabulary like courage, moral courage, sacrifice, assertiveness, confidence, and conscience and inspirational quotations for a visual reminder of your courage and assertiveness lessons
✨ SEL Morning Meeting Google Slides — Teacher and student versions to implement this unit digitally or use as visual prompts and discussion starters on your interactive whiteboard
Watch your students grow into courageous, self-assured individuals ready to thrive both academically and socially. Grab this set and start building a classroom where every student has the confidence to step up, speak out, and face challenges head on!
WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I used this resource for my morning meeting with students. It has many wonderful ideas and resources that made planning easy. Thank you!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you for making such an amazing resource."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I love how flexible these resources are. So many different ways to use them. Great ideas for teaching the important virtue of COURAGE!"
SAVE WITH A MINI-BUNDLE OR THE MEGA BUNDLE OF ALL TOPICS
SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 1: Perseverance, Kindness, Belonging, Empathy & Compassion, and Conflict Resolution
SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 2: Gratitude, Happiness, Integrity, Goal Setting, & Individuality
SEL Morning Meeting Bundle Set 3: Courage, Intrinsic Motivation, Responsibility, Friendship & Managing Emotions
If you're looking for a year-long social emotional learning curriculum that is perfect for morning meetings, classroom community building, counselor lessons, or sub plans, click here to save 40% on the all themes bundle of 16 social emotional learning units. Each unit is set up similarly with the same components for easy implementation!
YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZIPPED FILE CONTAINING:
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PDF of guided lesson plans and student activity journal; within this PDF, you'll find a link to two Google Slides:
- Teacher Presentation Google Slides
- Student Notebook Google Slides
- PDF of bulletin board materials with vocabulary and quotation posters
Copyright © Tammy Roose, Tarheelstate Teacher.
The purchase of this resource gives the buyer permission to download and copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution is also limited to single classroom use. Copying for other teachers, school-wide use, or school systems is only allowed with the purchase of additional licenses.
